The aim of the study was to conduct a systematic review of the literature on factors that
determine decision making in child protection investigations. More specifically, to investigate …

Decision-Making Factors in Cases of Child Neglect Page 1 Decision-Making Factors
CATHERINE FOSTER ALTER The author presents findings of an analogue study of factors that …

Individual child protection decisions are some of the most important and least understood
processes in the provision of child welfare services. Although there has been a fairly …

This article presents an evaluation study of a case management method for child protection
services, the Delta Method for Family Supervision, in terms of supervision order duration and …

When children come to the attention of the child welfare system, they become involved in a
decision-making process in which decisions are made that have a significant effect on their …

The decision to intervene with families has enormous implications for a democratic society.
Child protective services must both protect children and families. Practice theory, social …

Decision-making is located at the heart of social work as a core professional activity,
because much of what social workers do concerns decisions about future courses of action …

To understand how decisions are made in abuse/neglect cases by the child welfare system,
the authors asked child welfare experts and protective service line workers to make …

The primary aim of this study is to summarise research findings about the use of assessment
frameworks, that is, structured models that guide information collection and decision making …

This thesis challenged the assumption that factors unrelated to the clinical concerns of the
case drive case dispositions in child welfare services. It examined the relative influence of …