How children become invisible in child protection work: findings from research into day to day social work practice

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How children become invisible in child protection work: findings from research into day to day social work practice

It is well known that in cases in which abused children have died, social workers and other professionals did not relate to them effectively—the phenomenon now known as the ‘invisible child’. Much less well understood is how often and why such invisibility occurs where there has not been a major inq...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ferguson, Harry
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press 2016
Subjects:	Child protection; social work practice; psychosocial theory; ethnographic research; child abuse deaths; home visits; emotion
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34291/

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