How Children Become Invisible in Child Protection Work: Findings from Research into Day-to-Day Social Work Practice

• Published in: The British journal of social work Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 1007 - 1023
• Main Author: Ferguson, Harry
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 01.06.2017
• Subjects: Child protection; psychosocial theory; child abuse deaths; home visits; emotion; ethnographic research; social work practice

Abstract 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...