Scourfield, J., Webb, C.J.R. orcid.org/0000-0001-7521-2110, Elliott, M. et al. (2 more authors) (2021) Are child welfare intervention rates higher or lower in areas targeted for enhanced early years services? Child Abuse Review, 30 (4). pp. 306-317. ISSN 0952-9136
Abstract
Flying Start is an enhanced early years programme in Wales which is targeted at areas where a high proportion of households with children are recipients of income-related benefits or tax credits. Child protection interventions are known to be concentrated in more deprived areas. Flying Start could have the effect of reducing risk to children or, conversely, it could result in more children coming to the attention of social services. Administrative data were used to identify children in public care and on child protection registers in Wales on 31 March 2015 and to identify lower super output areas covered by Flying Start services. Child welfare intervention rates were examined, and a comparison was made between areas within deprivation quintiles where Flying Start was operating and areas where it was not. In areas where Flying Start services are provided, child welfare intervention rates are higher than in areas where they are not, after controlling for multiple deprivation. Further work is needed to establish why child welfare intervention rates are higher in Flying Start areas and what effect there might be longer term.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Child Abuse Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2021 11:25 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2022 23:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/car.2696 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:180241 |