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Growing Support - A Review of Services for Vulnerable Families with Young Children

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Appendix B Summary of Fieldwork
Sample of social work case records selected for analysis - 147
Health visitor records reviewed - 20

Interviews with Local Authority Staff

Social work staff

Total

Head of Children's Services or equivalent

5

Strategic/operational/area managers

15

Senior social workers

24

Social workers: individual interviews

26

Social workers: focus groups

16

Visit to family centre

Family centre manager interviews

7

Education services staff

Heads of Service for children with special educational needs

5

Early years development officers/co-ordinators

4

Educational psychologist

1

Housing staff

Assistant Director of Housing

1

Principal Officers/Housing Managers

6

Interviews with staff in Health Services

Health Board

Commissioners of Children's Services

4

Nursing managers and staff

Directors of Nursing

5

Directors/Managers for Women's and Child Health (ante-natal and midwifery services)

7

Health visitors: individual interviews

28

Health visitos: focus groups

42

Midwives: individual interviews

2

Midwives: focus groups

23

Community psychiatric nurses

4

Local Health Care Co-operatives

LHCC Chairs

3

LHCC General Managers

5

Locality Nurse Managers

2

Acute or primary care NHS trusts

Community paediatricians

5

Medical/Nursing directors of service

3

Child protection nurse specialists/advisers

3

Nursing or other staff

6

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Consultant psychiatrists

3

Nurse specialists

1

Psychiatric social worker

1

Psychologists

2

Specialist Drug & Alcohol Problem Services

Consultant psychiatrists

2

Nurse specialists

3

Social workers

3

Service Manager

1

Voluntary Sector Services

Family centre staff

3

Scottish Children's Reporters Administration

SCRA - Reporter Manager

1

Children's Reporters

8

Interviews with users of services

Service users: individual interviews

28

Service users: focus groups

47

Total number of interviews

Service users

75

LA staff

110

Health service staff

158

Voluntary sector staff

3

SCRA

9

Total:

335

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