Supervising a family or a service? Social worker approaches to foster care supervision in six Swedish authorities

Figures & data

Table 1. Interview material of the study, divided into local authorities.

	Interviews with managers	Interviews with SSWs	Interviews with CSWs
LA 1 (county 1)	1 interview with 1 manager	1 group interview with 6 SSWs	1 group interview with 4 CSWs
LA 2 (county 1)	1 interview with 1 manager	1 interview with 1 SSW	2 individual interviews with 2 CSWs
LA 3 (city district)	1 interview with 2 managers	1 group interview with 3 SSWs/CSWs*	-
LA 4 (city district)	2 individual interviews with 2 managers	1 interview with 3 SSWs	1 group interview with 4 CSWs
LA 5 (county 2)	1 group interview with 2 managers	1 group interview with 4 SSWs	1 group interview with 5 CSWs
LA 6 (county 2)	1 individual interview with 1 manager	1 group interview with 2 SSWs/CSWs**	-
Total interviews	7 interviews with 9 managers	6 interviews with 19 SSWs	5 interviews with 15 CSWs	18 interviews with 43 managers/social workers

*Social workers in LA 3 functioned as both a SSW and CSW, and hence only one interview was conducted.

**The SSWs and the CSWs were interviewed in tandem, according to their preference.