Karen Broadhurst

Performing 'Initial Assessment': Identifying the Latent Conditions for Error at the Front-Door of Local Authority Children's Services

Karen Broadhurst, David Wastell, S. White et al. · The British Journal of Social Work · 2009 · 287 citations · Full text

Management, Organizational Behavior, Auditing +12

Risk, Instrumentalism and the Humane Project in Social Work: Identifying the Informal Logics of Risk Management in Children's Statutory Services

Karen Broadhurst, Curtis M. Hall, David Wastell et al. · The British Journal of Social Work · 2010 · 237 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Risk Management, Social Work +14

When policy o’erleaps itself: The ‘tragic tale’ of the Integrated Children’s System

David Wastell, Karen Broadhurst, Chris Hall · Critical Social Policy · 2010 · 153 citations

Public Affairs, Public Policy, Social Policy +8

Children's services in the iron cage of performance management: street‐level bureaucracy and the spectre of Švejkism

David Wastell, Susan White, Karen Broadhurst et al. · International Journal of Social Welfare · 2010 · 152 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Public Administration, Social Work +8

Child removal as the <i>gateway</i> to further adversity: Birth mother accounts of the immediate and enduring collateral consequences of child removal

Karen Broadhurst, Claire Mason · Qualitative Social Work · 2019 · 140 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Child Welfare +12