Balancing Risk and Innovation to Improve Social Work Practice

Journal Article Balancing Risk and Innovation to Improve Social Work Practice Get access Louise Brown Louise Brown Dr Louise Brown is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath. With a background in child protection practice, she has been involved in evaluating service interventions for the last 15 years. Her research interests include implementing innovations in the public services and the role that innovation can play in improving social work practice. Correspondence to Dr Louise Brown, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 40, Issue 4, June 2010, Pages 1211–1228, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcq013 Published: 15 February 2010 Article history Accepted: 01 January 2010 Published: 15 February 2010

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