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Complexity Theory: developing new understandings of child protection in field settings and in residential child care. Abstract The protection of children, whether living at home or in residential care, is a core endeavour of residential and field social work with children. Yet despite broad support from politicians, policy makers and the majority of the public for this work, child protection practice and practitioners are frequently criticized for perceived or actual failures to protect. Successive inquiries produce reports with similar recommendations, yet children continue to be abused and