Child Welfare as Child Protection Then and Now
What Social Workers Did and Continue to Do
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10895201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Davy Hayes (0000-0001-7053-9069, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author), Trevor Spratt (0000-0003-3969-5527, Queen's University Belfast) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 615-635 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjsw/bcs161 |
| OpenAlex | W2130527227 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 15 |
The research reported here builds on the work of one of the authors who, some thirteen years ago, in a similar study, examined the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare practice orientation. As with the original research study, this present project seeks to examine the everyday practices of social workers with children and families as revealed by file analysis, vignette questionnaires (reported here) and interviews with families and social workers (to be reported). A twenty-item vignette questionnaire was completed by fifty-five social workers (65.5 per cent response rate). It was found that there was little agreement on coding decisions with regard to which cases should be designated child protection or child welfare. Further analysis revealed that, regardless of such coding decisions, families tended to receive similar responses by social workers. The results demonstrate that, whilst there has been a reduction in the headline numbers of child protection investigations undertaken across Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland, the everyday patterns of practice with families and children where parenting concerns remain evident reflect child protection risk management priorities and practices.
Child protection · Developmental psychology · Political science · Social Welfare · Vignette · Welfare · Child Abuse and Trauma · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |