Agreement on Child Maltreatment Decisions: A Nonrandomized Study on the Effects of Structured Decision-Making

Practitioners investigating cases of suspected child maltreatment often disagree whether a child is subject to or at risk of abuse or neglect in the family and, if so, what to do about such abuse or neglect. Structured decision-making is considered to be a solution to the problem of subjective judgments and decisions. This study investigates the effects of ORBA, a method for structured decision-making in Advice and Reporting Centres for Child...