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Improving Child and Family Assessments: Turning Research into Practice
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The quality of the assessment of children in need has a significant impact on outcomes for the children concerned. Good assessment contributes to better outcomes, but poor assessment can have tragic consequences. Understanding what makes a good assessment is vital.
This book brings together findings from 10 years of UK research that shed light on different aspects of child and family assessment, and examines the evidence for what works in promoting the best outcomes for children. It covers thresholds for assessment and intervention, what information should be collected in assessments, and assessments in different contexts. It also examines key aspects of practice and the factors that can help or hinder good quality assessment. These areas include analysis, critical thinking and reflection; engaging with children and families; and inter-professional working. Structural, procedural and organisational factors are also considered.
In summarising the research, this important book provides key messages on the links between assessment and outcomes for children, and offers implications for policy and practice. It will be essential reading for social work practitioners, academics, students and researchers, and all those in the child protection field.

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IMPROVING
CHILD

and

FAMILY
ASSESSMENTS

Turning Research into Practice

Danielle Turney, Dendy Platt,
Julie Selwyn and Elaine Farmer

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
London and Philadelphia

Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of the HMSO and the Queens Printer for Scotland.

Box 4.2 on pp.678 is reproduced from Thoburn et al. 2009 with permission from the Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young Peoples Services (C4EO).

First published in 2012

by Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Improving child and family assessments : turning research into practice / Danielle Turney ... [et al.].

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-84905-256-6 (alk. paper)

1. Family social work. 2. Social work with children. 3. Family assessment. 4. Social service--Research. I. Turney, Danielle.

HV697.I47 2012

362.8253--dc23

2011032658

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 84905 256 6

eISBN 978 0 85700 553 3

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book is based on a research review funded by the Department for Education. In the course of the project, we contacted a number of researchers who had been involved in key government-funded research initiatives and one overview study and would like to thank them for their generous responses to our requests for information and access to published and unpublished reports. The review cannot fully reflect all the work that was undertaken in the studies we have reported but it is clear that there is a wealth of information about assessment to draw on. We were well supported by Jenny Gray, Julie Wilkinson and Isabella Craig at the Department for Education throughout the project. We would like to thank them and other colleagues who were particularly helpful in accessing currently unpublished work. Excellent research assistance was provided by Valerie Bramwell, Gillian Macdonald, Hilary Saunders and Joanne Abbott.

We would also like to thank all the members of our Advisory Group Marian Brandon, Hedy Cleaver, Isabella Craig, Jenny Gray, Colin Green, David Jones, Helen Jones, Lorraine Radford, Rosemarie Roberts and Julie Wilkinson for reading and commenting on the report.

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INTRODUCTION

This book draws together information gathered in the course of a review of research, commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE). The review was intended to provide a better understanding of the relationship between the quality of assessments and outcomes for children in contact with childrens social care services. More specifically, the purpose of the review was to increase understanding of:

how information collected and analysed during an assessment has both a short- and long-term impact on future planning, choice of interventions and of placements and psycho-social outcomes for children
how variations in local authority policies and practices affect decisions about whether initial or core assessments should be undertaken and whether thresholds for intervention have been met.

The period covered by this research review (19992010) has been framed by a number of high-profile cases of preventable child deaths. It is also a period where there has been considerable central government investment in services and in research aiming to deepen understanding of the impact of policy and practice changes.

Indeed, during this period the Department of Health and the then Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) funded six research initiatives and a substantial review of government-funded research into different aspects of foster care. Each of the research initiatives had a particular focus: the impact of the Children Act 1989, supporting parents, costs and outcomes in childrens social care, Quality Protects, adoption and safeguarding. The research studies in each of these research programmes provide a rich source of material on the assessment of children in need from which our review has drawn.

Background

The assessment of children in need and their families is an aspect of social work practice that has attracted considerable attention over the past decade. Poor-quality, incomplete or non-existent assessments have been of particular concern. Five areas have been repeatedly identified in the literature as problematic: a failure to engage with the child, inadequacies in information gathering, differential thresholds, shortcomings in critical analysis and shortcomings in inter-professional working.

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