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Central Scotland's joint police and social work initiative in child abuse: an evaluation
Author(s) -
BROWN LOUISE,
FULLER ROGER
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1991.tb00487.x
Subject(s) - social work , work (physics) , child protection , sociology , joint (building) , child abuse , criminology , public relations , poison control , political science , suicide prevention , law , engineering , medicine , medical emergency , architectural engineering , mechanical engineering
SUMMARY. The previous article in this issue described the joint police and social work initiative in Central Region for the investigation of child abuse allegations from the point of view of a social work manager. This paper sets out the main findings of an independent evaluative study of the same scheme, focusing on its impact on the way investigations were handled, the aspiration to make procedures more child‐centred, and the development in practice of the concept of co‐ordination. The study, described more fully in Brown and Fuller (1991), was carried out by the Social Work Research Centre, University of Stirling, and funded by the Social Work Services Group of the Scottish Office.