title: Parents with learning difficulties in the child protection system: experiences and perspectives.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK. T.Booth@Sheffield.ac.uk
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Booth
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Booth
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D011640:Public Policy