Questionnaire Responses on Child Abuse Practice within Barnardo's

Abstract

The Child Abuse Practice Development Group first met in May 1989. The initial brief was shaped by Mike Jarman's direction in establishing the group "to inform service delivery by the greater utilisation of the skill and knowledge we already possess, coupled by what we can learn from external practice". As a first step - the group considered it appropriate to assess the current experience of practising in the field of child abuse within and across the Organisation. Given the extensiveness of practice/practice management experience in the membership of the group - it was possible at an early stage to put forward a series of potential areas of issue which the Organisation would wish to examine and address.