A disappearing act

This article analyses the links between the nature of child protection referrals and subsequent disposal, showing how mothers and fathers are subjected to markedly different investigative and intervention ap proaches. The bureaucratic mechanisms of child protection systems are examined to show how procedures impact on the social work process. Data obtained during the author's recent experience of child protection investigation referrals as a social worker in a small north ern city is used to illustrate the inexorable contraints of the system on social workers

Bureaucracy · Child protection · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Social protection · Work (physics · Child Abuse and Trauma · Engineering · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work

• Child Protection

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• The Trouble with Harry

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• Swimming with Dolphins

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• Gender and the Child Protection Process

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• Is Social Work a 'Non-Traditional' Occupation for Men

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• The Effects of Client Violence on Child-Protection Networks

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• Family practice with fathers, social care, and capabilities

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• Reclaiming Reflective Supervision

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• Safeguarding children

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• System abuse

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• Issues facing brothers of sexually abused children

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• Avoidance and confrontation

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• The Common Assessment Framework

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• Challenging passive partnerships with parents and children in the core group forum

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• Giving voice to experiences

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• Child Sexual Abuse and the Black Disabled Child

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• Focusing upon children and men in situations of domestic violence

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• Strategies of Resistance

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• Ethnic Diversity and Child Protection

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• Getting `a grip

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• From ‘Disappearing’ to ‘Demonized’

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• Fathers' encounters with the Child Welfare Service

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• Constructing Men in Child Protection Work

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• Women, the family and child protection

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