Open this publication in new window or tab >>2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
Previous research indicates that child welfare services reach out to children exposed to violence unequally depending on the child’s social background, living conditions and violence type, and that once children are investigated by the child welfare services, inequalities in access to interventions prevail (e.g. Kalin et al. 2022; Knezevic 2021; Persdotter & Andersson 2020; Quarles van Ufford et al. 2022). There is a lack of systematic knowledge about the long term outcomes for children investigated by the child welfare services. The current study explores different childhood trajectories in the aftermath of a child welfare investigation initiated due to children’s exposure to violence. A register was set up including all children (n= 1 764) between 7-12 years that were investigated by child welfare services in Stockholm in 2019 for suspected exposure to violence. As a baseline this cohort was systematically compared to demographic data and a national self-report prevalence study to explore possible biases regarding which children the child welfare services investigates (Kassman et al. 2023). In the current paper, the study group development in the first three years following upon the child welfare investigation was explored as regards living conditions, out of home care, health care consumption and school grades. The development of the study group was also systematically compared to a comparison group of children (n=5 000). Descriptive analysis, cluster analysis and logistic regressions were used.
Keywords
Child welfare investigation, Long term outcomes, Violence
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-11047 (URN)
Conference
Nationella barnavårdskonferensen Linneuniversitetet
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2019-01492
Note
Referenser
Kalin, T., Ahlgren, T., & Persdotter, B. (2022). Gender disparities in child welfare services' assessments of referrals. Findings from Sweden. Child Abuse & Neglect, 134:105918
Kassman, A., Wollter, F., Eriksson, M. (2023) The selective child welfare funnel. Children's exposure to violence and CWS investigations in Sweden, Child Abuse & Neglect 144: 106356, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106356
Knezevic, Z. (2021) Speaking bodies – silenced voices: Child protection and the knowledge culture of ‘evidencing’. Global Studies of Childhood 11(3) 252–264
Persdotter, B. & Andersson, M. (2020). SAVE - Support and protection Against Violence, on Equal terms for all children. Karlstad: Karlstad universitet.
Quarles van Ufford, S., Heimer, M., Schön, U.-K., & Linell, H. (2022). The Swedish social services' police reporting and children's access to protection and support in child abuse cases: A quantitative content analysis. Child Abuse & Neglect, 133, 105-828
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