Abstract
BACKGROUND The research studied fifty-one cases of child sexual abuse randomly selected from Child Protection Registers of four local authority social work departments in Scotland in 1987 (Waterhouse and Carnie, 1990). The overall purpose of the study was to examine the way in which familial child sexual abuse was identified and responded to by social workers and police officers in the early investigative stage. Of major interest was the nature of their inter-agency practice, their respective expectations and the range of problems encountered. Case records were examined and one hundred individual interviews, divided equally between police officers and social workers involved in the sample, were carried out. Each front-line practitioner was asked to trace the development of the case from her or his point of view. By this means attitudes towards, as well as experiences of, investigating child sexual abuse were elicited.
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