Social worker or social administrator? Findings from a qualitative case study of a child protection social work team.
This paper reports on data from a qualitative case study of child protection social work in one local authority. Ethnographic methods were used and constructionist grounded theory employed to collect and analyse 329 pages of historical documents about the local authority child protection service, 24...
| Publicado en: | Child & Family Social Work Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 1187 - 1197 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2017
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