TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring inequities in child welfare and child protection services
T2 - Explaining the 'inverse intervention law'
AU - Bywaters, Paul
AU - Brady, Geraldine
AU - Sparks, Tim
AU - Bos, Elizabeth
AU - Bunting, Lisa
AU - Daniel, Brigid
AU - Featherstone, Brid
AU - Morris, Kate
AU - Scourfield, Jonathan
N1 - No full text in Eprints. HN 15/11/2017
PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
N2 - Attempts to record, understand and respond to variations in child welfare and protection reporting, service patterns and outcomes are international, numerous and longstanding. Reframing such variations as an issue of inequity between children and between families opens the way to a new approach to explaining the profound difference in intervention rates between and within countries and administrative districts. Recent accounts of variation have frequently been based on the idea that there is a binary division between bias and risk (or need). Here we propose seeing supply (bias) and demand (risk) factors as two aspects of a single system, both framed, in part, by social structures. A recent finding from a study of intervention rates in England, the 'inverse intervention law', is used to illustrate the complex ways in which a range of factors interact to produce intervention rates. In turn, this analysis raises profound moral, policy, practice and research questions about current child welfare and child protection services.
AB - Attempts to record, understand and respond to variations in child welfare and protection reporting, service patterns and outcomes are international, numerous and longstanding. Reframing such variations as an issue of inequity between children and between families opens the way to a new approach to explaining the profound difference in intervention rates between and within countries and administrative districts. Recent accounts of variation have frequently been based on the idea that there is a binary division between bias and risk (or need). Here we propose seeing supply (bias) and demand (risk) factors as two aspects of a single system, both framed, in part, by social structures. A recent finding from a study of intervention rates in England, the 'inverse intervention law', is used to illustrate the complex ways in which a range of factors interact to produce intervention rates. In turn, this analysis raises profound moral, policy, practice and research questions about current child welfare and child protection services.
KW - Child protection
KW - Child welfare
KW - Social inequity
KW - Social policy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84939620273&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.07.017
DO - 10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.07.017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84939620273
VL - 57
SP - 98
EP - 105
JO - Children and Youth Services Review
JF - Children and Youth Services Review
SN - 0190-7409
ER -