Journal Article

Using family network data in child protection services

Hendy, Shaun, Marks, Kip, James, Alex, Nik, Syen, McLeod, Jeanette, Rusu, Delia, Plank, Michael J.

2019

Overview

Notes how evidence-based decision-making tools are increasingly common in social services provision but few, if any, have used social network data. Analyses a child protection services dataset that includes a network of approximately 5 million social relationships collected by social workers between 1996 and 2016 in New Zealand. Tests the potential of information about family networks to improve accuracy of models used to predict the risk of child maltreatment. Simulates integration of the dataset with birth records to construct more complete family network information by including information that would be available earlier if these databases were integrated. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.

• Publisher: Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subject: Abused children / Adolescent / Analysis / Archives & records / Artificial intelligence / Bias / Biology and Life Sciences / Birth / Birth Certificates / Birth records / Child / Child abuse / Child abuse & neglect / Child Abuse - prevention & control / Child health / Child Protective Services - methods / Child Protective Services - trends / Child Welfare / Child, Preschool / Children / Computer simulation / Data / Datasets / Decision making / Demographics / Families / Families & family life / Family / Family networks / Family relations / Female / Humans / Infant / Information / Information storage and retrieval systems / Kinship networks / Labeling / Labelling / Machine learning / Male / Mathematics / Medicine and Health Sciences / Model accuracy / New Zealand / People and Places / Performance enhancement / Physical Sciences / Prevention / Protection / Psychological aspects / Race / Recidivism / Records / Research and Analysis Methods / Risk / Risk assessment / Risk factors / Social change / Social networks / Social organization / Social relations / Social Sciences / Social security / Social services / Social services delivery / Social Support / Social Work - methods / Social Work - trends / Social workers / Unsafe / Workers