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040 _aAFVC
100 _aGorin, Sarah
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245 _a‘Seen’ through records :
_bparents’ access to children’s social care records in an age of increasing datafication
_cSarah Gorin, Rosalind Edwards, Val Gillies and Hélène Vannier Ducasse
260 _bOxford Academic,
_c2023
500 _aThe British Journal of Social Work, 2023, First published online, 25 August 2023
520 _aGeneral Data Protection Regulations state that parents may submit a Subject Access Request (SAR) to see personal records held about them. In this article, we draw on interviews with parents who have made an SAR in order to view their children’s social care records. Their experiences reveal the significant barriers of time, energy and bureaucracy that they faced in accessing their children’s records. The parents felt that they were ‘seen’ through their records, reported inaccuracies in information about them and relayed the devastating impact that false allegations of maltreatment continued to have in their lives. Datafication becomes an integral part of the unequal power dynamic between parents and professionals, further shifting the balance towards professionals, damaging fragile trust and engagement. Crucially, there are ethical questions raised for the social work profession about the accessibility and accountability of local authority processes when parents seek justice and reparation for harm. Given the importance of records in decision making about intervention in families lives and increasing datafication of public services working with families through electronic systems including predictive analytics, our indicative findings point to the need for further investigation. (Authors' abstract). Record #8510
650 _aCHILD PROTECTION
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650 4 _9181
_aDATA ANALYSIS
650 _aPARENTS
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650 4 _aSOCIAL SERVICES
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650 4 _9562
_aSOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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651 4 _aUNITED KINGDOM
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700 _aEdwards, Rosalind
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700 _aGillies, Val
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700 _aDuncasse, Hélène V.
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773 0 _tThe British Journal of Social Work, 2023, First published online, 25 August 2023
830 _aThe British Journal of Social Work
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad192
_zDOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcad192 (Open access)
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_cARTICLE
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