Making home visits: creativity and the embodied practices of home visiting in social work and child protection

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Making home visits: creativity and the embodied practices of home visiting in social work and child protection

Although the home is the most common place where social work goes on, research has largely ignored the home visit. Drawing on a participant observation study of child protection work, this article reveals the complex hidden practices of social work on home visits. It is argued that home visits do no...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ferguson, Harry
Format:	Article
Published:	SAGE Publications 2016
Subjects:	Home visit; Ethnography; Social work practice; Embodiment; Child protection; The senses
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34470/

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