Authors: Morag Henderson, Jonathan Scourfield, Sin Yi Cheung, Elaine Sharland and Luke Sloan. Cardiff University and the University of Sussex
Published by: Research on Social Work Practice, November 2014
SUMMARY
Studies into the effectiveness of social services interventions tend to be small scale, and focus only on those who have received support. Researchers from Cardiff University and the University of Sussex wanted to carry out a large scale piece of work comparing the outcomes of young people who had contact with social services with those of their peers who did not. The study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and part of a larger programme of research, used data on 15,770 young people from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England. Of those, 1,184 – eight per cent – had been in contact with statutory social services.
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