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Bureaucracy or professionalism?
- Author:
- EGELUND T.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 5(3), July 1996, pp.165-174.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
This study analyses how the work tools of child protection services influence social work with child abuse. The article is empirically based on records, observations of the daily social work and interviews with families. The work tools include: 1) rules and, 2) professional knowledge and methods. The results show a complicated picture of how work tools are mixed. It is argued that the treatment of families is politically determined. Nevertheless, there is a room for manoeuvre for professional ideals and skills. The study suggests that this freedom of discretion does not seem to be used extensively. Solutions seem to be chosen within the narrow repertoire of legislative recommendations.