Avoiding mistakes in child protection

The NSPCC have released a a new guide on risk assessment in child protection:
Broadhurst, K.et al. (2011). Ten pitfall and how to avoid them: what research tells us. NSPCC. The authors state that no amount of micro managing procedural guidelines can substitute for the decision making processes professional social workers engage in every day, but hope in this document to help professionals avoid the more common mistakes identified by research. This document is an update of an original included in the 1998 NSPCC report Assessing Risk in Child Protection.