Are child welfare intervention rates higher or lower in areas targeted for enhanced early years services?

Scourfield, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-8158, Webb, Calum J. R., Elliott, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8062-6913, Staniland, Lydia and Bywaters, Paul 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. 10.1002/car.2696

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE)
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0952-9136
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	13 July 2020
Date of Acceptance:	31 May 2020
Last Modified:	29 Nov 2024 14:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/133370

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