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Caseworkers were asked to identify the difficulties they believed contributed to children’s entry into care. For the majority of families multiple factors contributed to the decision to place a child in care. It was less likely for caseworkers to attribute placement to a single factor when multiple factors were identified both primary and secondary reasons acted together to trigger trajectories into care. Child neglect is the main reason leading to entry into a temporary family care program, followed closely by substance misuse by parents. Caseworkers identified all forms of child abuse, physical, emotional and sexual, as reasons children came into care. The reasons implicated in bringing children into care in this chapter are employed in Chap. 6 as predictive factors in an analysis of reunification patterns and outcomes.
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Fernandez, E. (2013). Reasons for Children Entering Care. In: Accomplishing Permanency: Reunification Pathways and Outcomes for Foster Children. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5092-0_3
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