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British Journal of Social Work 2005 35(7):1193-1202; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bch295
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.

Gaining Access to Data Sources in Statutory Social Work Agencies: The Long and Winding Road

David Hayes

David Hayes was previously employed as a Training and Development Coordinator by North and West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust in Northern Ireland. He was seconded to the School of Social Work, Queen’s University of Belfast in order to undertake a research study entitled ‘Parental Reaction to Child Welfare Interventions: An Analysis of the Relative Impacts of Procedural Systems and Social Work Practice’. He is currently employed as a Lecturer in Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast.

Correspondence to: David Hayes, Lecturer in Social Work, School of Social Work, Queen’s University of Belfast, 7 Lennoxvale, Belfast BT9 5BY, UK. E-mail: d.hayes{at}qub.ac.uk

This paper details a researcher’s experience of gaining access to three statutory social work agencies in order to conduct a study examining how social workers respond to family support cases and how parents and carers experience the intervention of social workers in these cases. The stages in gaining access are outlined, the gate-keepers involved at each stage are identified and some of the difficulties encountered are highlighted and discussed. The paper concludes that researchers need to give greater priority to access considerations and that social work agencies need to give greater priority to co-operation with researchers.

Keywords: Access, gatekeepers, data sources, research settings


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