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Discretionary decision making in child welfare – An experimental vignette study of the use of interpreter services

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  • Caspersen, Joakim
  • Paulsen, Veronika

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This paper focuses on child welfare workers’ discretionary decision making. They can rely on routines, procedures and manuals as part of their work, but in the end, they still have to make a choice, based on the available information at the time. Discretionary decision making is a way of reasoning when facing uncertainty in professional work and when laws, rules and systematic knowledge must be applied in specific cases. A larger body of research on discretion and discretionary decision making in social work has developed, but there remains much ground to cover in terms of empirical analyses of how discretionary processes play out in real-life contexts.

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  • Caspersen, Joakim & Paulsen, Veronika, 2023. "Discretionary decision making in child welfare – An experimental vignette study of the use of interpreter services," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:155:y:2023:i:c:s0190740923003900
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107194
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