Paul McCafferty

What knowledge do social workers use to inform their decision regarding permanency for Looked after Children?

Accurately identifying children at risk of abuse and intervening in ways that will protect them is far from an exact science (Spratt et al. 2015; Fleming et al. 2015) and is made all the harder by the fact that social workers have no unitary knowledge base to draw on to determine their recommendations (Enosh and Bayer-...