Decision-making in Child Protection: NCWWI 1-page Summary

This paper summarizes a study focused on the second cohort of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being that explores how certain factors (agency and geographic context, caseworker attributes, and families’ unique circumstances) might be associated with two key case decisions — substantiation of maltreatment, and removal and placement in out-of-home care. 

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