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Child welfare inequalities in a time of rising numbers of children entering out-of-home care

Elliott, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8062-6913 2020. Child welfare inequalities in a time of rising numbers of children entering out-of-home care. British Journal of Social Work 50 (2) , pp. 581-597. 10.1093/bjsw/bcz154

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Abstract

The relationship between poverty and child maltreatment and by extension of being placed in out-of-home care is a well-established one. However, this study goes beyond recent UK studies on the scale of child welfare inequalities in the likelihood of being placed in out-of-home care by considering such inequalities over time. The study is an analysis of longitudinal administrative data on children ‘looked after’ with a specific focus on children entering care in the two years that followed the death of Peter Connelly in 2007, a period that saw a rapid increase in numbers of children entering care. The analysis considers these increases using a child welfare inequalities lens. There is a ‘social gradient’ present within the overall rates of children entering care, with children in the most deprived neighbourhoods almost twelve times more likely to enter care than those in the least deprived. Such inequalities are compounded further in times of rapidly increasing entries to care with children entering care being disproportionately drawn from the poorest neighbourhoods, illustrated by a 42-per cent increase in rates between the two years in the most deprived neighbourhoods whilst rates in the least deprived neighbourhoods fell or remained the same.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE)
Additional Information: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0045-3102
Funders: ESRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 2 December 2019
Date of Acceptance: 1 November 2019
Last Modified: 06 May 2023 01:55
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/127277

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