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Child abuse investigation has come to involve numerous agencies and workers. Yet, uniquely amongst them, only the SSD has a legal duty towards children in this field. Such a duty is, in fact, shared with the police but the SSD is not constrained by the question of whether a crime may have been committed.
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© 1987 British Association of Social Workers
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Cooper, D.M., Ball, D. (1987). Social Workers as Investigators. In: Social Work and Child Abuse. Practical Social Work. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18819-2_5
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