EAN: 9783867418294

STRENGTHENING THE RETENTION OF CHILD PROTECTION...

This book examines a key issue in the field of human and social services: how to retain workers
in child protection and welfare organisations. Research over the last decade has highlighted
the turnover of these workers as being a pressing and perennial issue that impacts upon service
users  staff welfare  resources and the reputation of this sector. This book presents the
findings of a study examining social workers retention in child protection and welfare. The
findings from this study highlights how workers retention is influenced by exchanges
relationships with colleagues and managers  and this book presents a unique career preference
typology which expands our understanding of how workers make decisions to stay or leave based
upon their pre-conceptions of career pathways post-qualification. The book also examines
findings associated with the employment mobility of these workers within child protection and
tracks their next post after leaving  which provides some surprising findings regarding how we
understand and measure turnover for these workers. The book also examines rich qualitative data
from these workers experiences of being a social worker in child protection associated with 
job satisfaction  commitment to child protection and welfare work  making a difference  quality
of supervision  autonomy  and exchange relationships with peers  all of which emerged as
important factors in social workers decisions to stay or leave. The implications of this study
s findings for theory are also explored. Kenneth Burns is deputy course director of the Master
of Social Work and a research associate with the Institute for Social Science in the 21st
Century at University College Cork  Ireland.

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