Friday, 5 February 2010

Social workers secure a huge reduction in child deaths

Research carried out by Professor Colin Prichard of  Bournemouth University, which will be published later this year in the British Journal of Social Work, has found a 38% drop in violent and unexplained child deaths between 1974 and 2006, due to better monitoring by social workers and improved inter-agency working. The BASW chief executive welcomed the findings as a "tribute to the dedication of thousands of unsung - in fact often reviled heroines an heroes.

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