Senior Lecturer
I am a qualified social worker and before joining the University, worked in local authority child care and child protection services for some seventeen years, progressing from social worker to manager of child protection services. I work for the university part-time, teaching and writing in the fields of social work and child protection. When not at the university, I act as a social work consultant and am one of the country’s most prominent authors of expert witness reports in cases of negligence brought against local authority children’s services departments.
Other references
patrickayre.co.uk
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Philosophy and Sociology (University of Exeter)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Social Administration (University of Hull)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Social Studies (University of Leeds)
- CQSW (University of Leeds)
- MSc in Social Work (South Bank University)
Teaching Role
- Social work
- Child welfare
- Child protection
Research Interests
- Child protection
- Child welfare
- Children’s social services
Service to the Academic/Professional Community
- Member of the Child Protection Committee of the Lawn Tennis Association
- Member of the editorial board of Community Care Inform
- Member of Luton Local Safeguarding Children Board
- Author of expert witness reports in the field of child protection.
Recent Publications
Books
- Ayre P and Preston-Shoot M (2010) (Eds) Children’s services at the crossroads: A critical evaluation of contemporary policy for practice, Russell House, Lyme Regis
Chapters
- Ayre P and Calder, M (2010) ‘The Deprofessionalisation of child protection: regaining our bearings’ in P Ayre and M Preston-Shoot (2010) (Eds) Children’s services at the crossroads: A critical evaluation of contemporary policy for practice, Russell House, Lyme Regis
- Ayre P and Preston Shoot, M (2010) ‘Children's services: reversing the vicious spiral’ in P Ayre and M Preston-Shoot (2010) (Eds) Children’s services at the crossroads: A critical evaluation of contemporary policy for practice, Russell House, Lyme Regis
- Chard A and Ayre P (2010) ‘Managerialism at the tipping point?’ in P Ayre and M Preston-Shoot (2010) (Eds) Children’s services at the crossroads: A critical evaluation of contemporary policy for practice, Russell House, Lyme Regis
- Preston Shoot, M and Ayre P (2010) ‘For my next trick: Illusion in children’s social policy and practice’ in P Ayre and M Preston-Shoot (2010) (Eds) Children’s services at the crossroads: A critical evaluation of contemporary policy for practice, Russell House, Lyme Regis
Others
- Ayre P. (2011) Children at risk of neglect and emotional abuse, Independent comment, Community Care, 6 November 2011, p38
- Ayre P. (2011) Can former drug misusers cope with their newborn daughter?, Independent comment, Community Care, 2 June 2011, p38
- Ayre P (2010) Banish Managerialism, Community Care, 1 – 8 July 2010, p10
- Ayre P (2010) Assessing neglect, [DVD]. Exeter: Devon County Council
- Ayre P. (2010) Should dad have the kids: Independent comment, Community Care, 1 – 8 July 2010, p21
- Ayre P. (2010) A delicate investigation of online abuse, Independent comment, Community Care, 4 November 2010, p35
Contact details
Luton campus
Park Square
Luton, LU1 3JU
Tel: +44 (0)1582 743076
E: patrick.ayre@beds.ac.uk
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