Parents with learning difficulties in the child protection system: experiences and perspectives
- Författare
- Booth, T., & Booth, W.
- Titel
- Parents with learning difficulties in the child protection system: experiences and perspectives
- Utgivningsår
- 2005
- Tidskrift
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities
- Volym
- 9
- Häfte
- 2
- Sidor
- 109-129
- Sammanfattning
The article documents the views and feelings of parents with learning difficulties as they reflect on their first-hand experience of going through care proceedings. Drawing on interviews conducted as part of a wider study of how cases involving mothers and fathers with learning difficulties are handled by the child protection system and the family courts, the authors provide a parental perspective on assessments, support, case conferences and the court process as well as the after-effects on the families themselves.