Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pugh, Richard

Titel

Variations in Registration on Child Protection Registers

Ist Teil von

• The British journal of social work, 2007-01, Vol.37 (1), p.5-21

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper outlines some of the limitations of the annual data reports on child protection registrations provided in England and Wales and reports the findings of a study into patterns of variation on child protection registers. Previous studies of variations on child protection registers have usually examined variations between particular categories of registration, or focused upon the aggregated numbers of children registered in local areas. Unlike the limited official data, this study examined the actual periods of time that children remained registered. It found that there were significant variations by gender, age and local authority, in the periods of time registered. The paper concludes by raising questions about the range and nature of information that might usefully be collected about children, the merits of integrating data-sets, and the uses to which such data might be put.