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British Journal of Social Work 2009 39(3):418-434; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcm151
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved

Identifying Families with Multiple Problems: Perspectives of Practitioners and Managers in Three Nations

Trevor Spratt and John Devaney

Dr Trevor Spratt is Director of the Batchelor of Social Work (Relevant Graduate Route) and a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen's University, Belfast. Dr John Devaney is a Lecturer in Social Work at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen's University, Belfast.

Correspondence to Dr Trevor Spratt, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, 6 College Park, Belfast BT7 1LP, Northern Ireland. Email: t.spratt{at}qub.ac.uk


  Abstract

Whilst child welfare systems in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States may share a number of common goals, they are not designed to identify families with multiple problems. Where system output measures have been utilised as proxy measures to detect such families they indicate the presence of families in the population served by child and family social work. In interviews with practitioners and managers working within contrasting welfare systems, we explore how families with multiple problems are identiifed, what repsonses they currently recieve and how their needs might be better met.

Keywords: child welfare, child protection, multi problem families, system output measures, international comparisons


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