The second is that financial constraints mean the thresholds forsupplying any assistance is high. So, rather than preventative workbeing offered, families will usually be at crisis point before accessingservices.
A surprising finding of this research is that there is little differencein outcome whether intervention is from a specialist support team orfrom a mainstream team. However, the families and young people perceivedthe specialist workers as having contributed significantly more toimprovements in their situation than mainstream social workers.
It points out that abuse, neglect and domestic violence are issues ofcontinuing importance in work with older children, an obvious point thatcan sometimes be forgotten in this world of ASBOs and parentingorders.
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