Errors and Mistakes in Child Protection: International Discourses, Approaches and Strategies

An international cross-national analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes in child protection including lessons on how to handle them across eleven countries in Europe and North America. Divided into country-specific chapters each of which examines the pathways that lead to mistakes happening, the scale of their impact, how responsibilities and responses are decided and how policy and practice has developed. It includes detailed Introductory and Concluding chapters together with a chapter exploring some of the conceptual and theoretical approaches to errors and mistakes in child protection and more generally.