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

Joakim Caspersen and Veronika Paulsen

Children and Youth Services Review, 2023, vol. 155, issue C

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Discretion; Child welfare; Interpreters; Experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107194

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