Objectives Children who have been maltreated are at increased risk of further maltreatment.
Identification of those at highest risk of further maltreatment is a priority for professionals …

Background Section 47 of the Children Act 1989 places a duty on local authorities to make
enquiries where it is suspected that a child is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm …

Sich die Frage zu stellen, wie Sozialarbeiter/innen in Jugendämtern bei Fällen von
Kindeswohlgefährdung entscheiden, erscheint aus einer ganzen Reihe von Gründen …

In spite of attempting to implement e-government innovations to enhance efficiency in public
organizations for several decades, e-government innovation has often not met the …

Entscheidungshandeln in der Sozialen Arbeit Die Soziale Arbeit stellt ein Tätigkeitsfeld dar,
in dem Menschen fortwährend fachliche Urteile und Entscheidungen treffen müssen. Das …

In an era in which child protective service agencies face increased demands on their time
and in an environment of stable or shrinking resources, great interest exists in improving risk …

Decision-making in the child protection system is influenced by multiple factors; agency and
geographic contexts, caseworker attributes, and families' unique circumstances all likely …

We develop empirical tools for studying discrimination in multiphase systems and apply
them to the setting of foster care placement by child protective services. Leveraging the …

Little research has been done into what social workers do in everyday child protection
practice. This paper outlines the broad findings from an ethnographic study of face‐to‐face …

Research into child and family social work has largely stopped short of getting close enough
to practice to produce understandings of what goes on between social workers and service …