Journal articles: 'Child protection systems'

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Rai, L. "Child Protection Systems: International Trends and Orientations." British Journal of Social Work 42, no. 4 (June 1, 2012): 801–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcs079.

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Heino, Tarja. "Child Protection Systems. International Trends and Orientations." Nordic Social Work Research 2, no. 2 (November 2012): 155–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2156857x.2012.705990.

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Connolly, Marie, and Ilan Katz. "Typologies of Child Protection Systems: An International Approach." Child Abuse Review 28, no. 5 (September 2019): 381–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/car.2596.

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Munro, Eileen. "Improving practice: Child protection as a systems problem." Children and Youth Services Review 27, no. 4 (April 2005): 375–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2004.11.006.

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Elliott, Anne. "When a child needs protection: What does it matter why?" Children Australia 23, no. 4 (1998): 5–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200008816.

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Despite the claims of statutory child protection authorities to be ‘child-centred’, the language used to record responses to child abuse and neglect allegations still focuses heavily upon parental actions. In most Australian states, child protection records perpetuate an emphasis on how harm was caused and by whom. This paper illustrates that parental blame – theoretically a concept of the past – is alive and well within child protection recording systems, and raises the implications of this for the development of policy frameworks and service delivery. It is argued that recent moves by some states towards differential responses actually perpetuate a focus on the parent to the detriment of a focus on the child’s needs. A better way of conceptualising the outcomes of child protection assessments – focusing on a child’s protective needs – is suggested.

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Höjer, Ingrid. "Book review: Child Protection Systems. International Trends and Orientations." International Social Work 56, no. 4 (June 20, 2013): 563–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872813486620.

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Cooper, Andrew. "Anxiety and child protection work in two national systems." Journal of Social Work Practice 6, no. 2 (September 1992): 117–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02650539208413494.

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Lee, Eun-Ju. "Changes and Improvement Plans for Child Abuse Protection Systems." Korean Journal of Family Welfare 20, no. 1 (March 30, 2015): 69–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.13049/kfwa.2015.20.1.69.

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Spall, Pamela. "Lessons Robin Clark taught me in child protection." Children Australia 27, no. 3 (2002): 6–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200005149.

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Robin Clark was an inspirational leader in the child protection and out-of-home care field throughout the 1980s and 1990s in Australia. Robin died in 2001. However her legacy continues due to her mentoring of social workers throughout her career and her numerous reviews and evaluations of child protection systems. This article pays tribute to the lessons Robin Clark taught administrators and practitioners in the design and delivery of child protection and out-of-home care systems.

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Sedlak, Andrea J., Dana Schultz, Susan J. Wells, Peter Lyons, Howard J. Doueck, and Frances Gragg. "Child protection and justice systems processing of serious child abuse and neglect cases." Child Abuse & Neglect 30, no. 6 (June 2006): 657–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2005.11.010.

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Mendes, Philip. "Consumer groups in child protection: Enhancing the accountability of the system." Children Australia 23, no. 2 (1998): 33–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200008610.

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The theme of this paper is the central role of consumer groups in promoting greater accountability in child protection systems. In recent years, numerous Australian authors have drawn attention to the failings of our State child protection systems. Particular concern has been expressed about the potential ‘systems abuse’ of children in care, and the failure of statutory systems to engage or adequately consider the perspectives of biological parents. One of the principal reasons for these deficits appears to be the absence of formal consultation mechanisms with consumers of protection services. This paper considers the recent rise of consumer groups of both young people in protection and care, and their parents/caregivers, in relation to the above concerns, with particular reference to Victoria. Attention is drawn to both the strengths and weaknesses of the better known groups such as the Australian Association of Young People in Care and their State affiliates, and the Parent Inquiry into Child Protection. The author believes that the role of consumer groups as a ‘watchdog’ will become even more important with the intended privatization of some State child protection systems.

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HEALY, KAREN, and SIV OLTEDAL. "An Institutional Comparison of Child Protection Systems in Australia and Norway Focused on Workforce Retention." Journal of Social Policy 39, no. 2 (January 5, 2010): 255–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s004727940999047x.

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AbstractBy any standard, child protection work is a demanding field of social services work. Throughout much of the post-industrial world, child protection agencies face significant problems in recruiting and retaining front-line staff with the abilities required to undertake this often complex and stressful work. The capacity of these agencies to achieve their social policy objectives can be compromised by workforce instability. Despite a growing body of evidence about the contribution of local organisational and caseworker characteristics to workforce turnover, policy-makers face a dearth of information about how the broader institutional context of child protection systems contributes to challenges in workforce retention. This lack of evidence is notable given the varying rates of caseworker turnover observed internationally, particularly between social policy regimes where different institutional contexts shape workforce conditions. This article aims to contribute to the evidence base for improving workforce retention in child protection services through an institutional comparison of child protection systems in Queensland (Australia) and Norway. We analyse the role of the institutional conditions in shaping the nature and scope of child protection work, characteristics and responsibilities of caseworkers, and their financial remuneration for this work. We discuss how these institutional effects help to explain the differences in workforce turnover among child protection workers in Queensland and Norway.

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Platt, D. D. "Child Protection Systems in the United Kingdom: A Comparative Analysis." British Journal of Social Work 42, no. 6 (September 1, 2012): 1220–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcs134.

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Gillespie, Alisdair A. "Child protection systems in the United Kingdom: a comparative analysis." Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 35, no. 2 (June 2013): 272–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2013.800298.

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Palmer, Emma. "Trafficked children and child protection systems in the European Union." European Journal of Social Work 22, no. 4 (February 22, 2018): 551–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2018.1441134.

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Morris, Jenny. "Disabled children, child protection systems and the Children Act 1989." Child Abuse Review 8, no. 2 (March 1999): 91–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-0852(199903/04)8:2<91::aid-car526>3.0.co;2-o.

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Parkes, Fritha. "“Crossover” children in the youth justice and child protection systems." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 33, no. 1 (May 2, 2021): 120–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol33iss1id831.

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Cohen, Mark. "What can psychiatry learn from the Munro Review of Child Protection?" British Journal of Psychiatry 208, no. 2 (February 2016): 104–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.114.160929.

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SummaryThe Munro Review of Child Protection approached the problem of child protection from an understanding based upon systems analysis. Risk assessment in psychiatry has similarities to the assessment by social workers of child protection issues. Psychiatry as a profession could learn from the Review, and, in doing so, be supported in recovering and communicating the requirements for good clinical practice.

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Lonne, B., M. Harries, and S. Lantz. "Workforce Development: A Pathway to Reforming Child Protection Systems in Australia." British Journal of Social Work 43, no. 8 (May 22, 2012): 1630–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcs064.

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Boothby, Neil, and Lindsay Stark. "Data surveillance in child protection systems development: An Indonesian case study." Child Abuse & Neglect 35, no. 12 (December 2011): 993–1001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.09.004.

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Ivan, Gabriela. "Child Protection in Canada and England: A Comparative Analysis." Journal of Politics and Law 14, no. 1 (January 18, 2021): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jpl.v14n1p100.

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At a time when the Canadian child welfare is at a crossroads and strives for a direction that leads to better outcomes and engagement with the families and service providers, placing the Canadian child’s welfare in the international context of child protection is essential for improving the system and learning from others. This phenomenological research endeavours to compare the child protection systems of Canada and England from the legislation perspective, with the focus on the definitions of child abuse and neglect, in order to identify some of their similarities and differences and capture some aspects of the child protection workers’ experience with the legislation and with these definitions. Furthermore, this explorative paper examines the implication of the legislation and the definitions of child abuse and neglect on the day-to-day work of the child protection workers who have experience in working in both countries – Canada and England – and identifies some of the similarities and differences of the two child protection systems. The child-protection system in Canada and England has undergone many changes over the years to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, but the direct implications of these changes on the child-protection workers and their day-to-day work is little known and understood. While in England the child protection legislation is consistent along the country, in Canada each province/territory has its own legislation in child protection, and therefore each of them has policy manuals, guides and protocols providing working definitions of abuse and criteria used in making determinations of abuse. The legislation and policy in child protection act as essential tools in the interventions with the main focus to keep children safe. In order to ensure that the children have the right to live a life free from any form of maltreatment, most countries have developed their own child-protection system, which is highly influenced by the cultural and socio-economic context of that specific country, as well as by the needs of its various communities.

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Kitson, Elizabeth. "Whose Foot is in the Tight Shoe?" International Journal of Children’s Rights 24, no. 4 (December 20, 2016): 718–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02404003.

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The lack of synergy between existing child marriage prevention initiatives and a systems approach to child protection limits children’s access to holistic services that can help reduce their vulnerability to early marriage. From an integrated feminist and child rights standpoint, culture, religious traditions and poverty do not justify the sexual exploitation of female children, nor fixation on “soft” interventions as a strategy for eradicating child marriage. The slow pace of change in behaviours and attitudes towards child marriage in West Africa necessitates a rethinking of the nuances of community resistance to change, and the implementation of more vigorous actions to ensure just treatment of children. Initiatives to prevent and eradicate child marriage must be cognizant of the strength of multisectoral partnerships and the overarching legal frameworks for the protection of children. State parties need to ensure that the pathways for change reflect the interplay of robust child protection legislations, well-resourced child protection systems, viable local community resources, investments in research on child marriage, and state leadership in holding child marriage perpetrators accountable for their actions.

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Broadley, Karen, and Chris Goddard. "A Public Health Approach to Child Protection: Why Data Matter." Children Australia 40, no. 1 (November 3, 2014): 69–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2014.37.

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In Australia, many researchers and policy makers believe that statutory child protection systems are overburdened and ineffective. The way forward, they suggest, is a public health model of child protection. A public health approach comprises four steps: (1) collecting surveillance data; (2) establishing causes and correlations; (3) developing and evaluating interventions; and (4) disseminating information about the effectiveness of intervention activities to the public health community. However, in Australia there are no reliable surveillance data. There is no information about ‘person’. Information is not collected about the characteristics of children (e.g., ethnicity) and parents (e.g., mental illness) reported to child protection services. Data are not comparable across place. This is because the states and territories have their own child protection legislation, definitions and data recording methods. Data are not comparable over time. This is because many jurisdictions have introduced new data recording systems over recent years. This paper concludes that it is essential to develop an effective child protection surveillance data system. This will ensure that services are located in areas and targeted towards populations in greatest need. It will enable large-scale evaluation of the effectiveness of prevention and intervention activities.

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Nugrahenti, Meydora Cahya, and Hindina Maulida. "Protection of Children in Child Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic Indonesia." Musamus Law Review 3, no. 2 (April 14, 2021): 58–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.35724/mularev.v3i2.3454.

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The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the implementation of face-to-face learning in schools (offline) to online. These changes make children unable to learn optimally due to various obstacles. This condition also affects the development and psychology of children. Data shows that the number of violence against children since the Covid-19 pandemic has tended to increase. On the other hand, children have the right to get protection and to grow properly in the context of education. The purpose of this study was to determine legal protection for children by analyzing legal provisions in Indonesia in protecting children's rights in online learning systems. The research method used is juridical normative with data sources obtained from primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. The data that has been collected is then presented in a structured and logical manner and analyzed descriptively. The results of the study found that legal protection instruments for children's rights in online learning systems already exist but their implementation has not been optimal. Socialization to prioritize children's growth and development rights in providing children's education rights during the Covid-19 pandemic must be more actively voiced to all Education Offices, heads of education units, educators, students, and parents of students.

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Ainsworth, Frank, and Patricia Hansen. "Coaching Parents About Children's Needs and Navigating the Child Protection and Other Systems." Children Australia 43, no. 3 (June 25, 2018): 181–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2018.27.

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This article reviews developments in the NSW child protection system which aim to reduce the number of children in state care. The first development was changes to the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1988 made in 2016 that created a permanency hierarchy for children who have been removed and not restored to parental or extended family care. Under Section 10A of the Act, guardianship and adoption becomes the priority if restoration is not possible, although Aboriginal children are exempt from adoption to some extent. The more recent development, during 2017, is the purchase by the Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS) of a license for two US models, namely Multi-Systemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN®) and Functional Family Therapy through Child Welfare (FFT-CW®). US studies have shown that these models reduce the number of children being taken into care. Related to this effort is the recognition by FaCS that the cost of out-of-home care (OOHC) is increasingly unmanageable given the 16,843 children in care in NSW. Added to this is the knowledge, confirmed by the Minister, that for many children in OOHC the outcomes are dismal. Finally, the article turns to the issue of poverty and seeks to address the established correlation (not causality) between poverty and child abuse and neglect. This remains the key issue that underscores child abuse and neglect that has to be addressed if a significant reduction in the number of children taken into state care is to be achieved.

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Schindeler, Emily. "Assessing allegations of child sex abuse in custody disputes." Children Australia 44, no. 01 (February 19, 2019): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2018.50.

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AbstractRisk assessments by expert witnesses appointed by the Family Court of Australia (FCA), and as informed by findings of any investigations by police and child protection agencies, play a critical role in the adjudication of custody disputes involving allegations of child sex abuse. This study focuses on the contribution made by these independent advisors as documented in the FCA trial transcripts of a sample of 62 such cases in the period 2012–2016. Analysis reveals that those responsible for assessing risk shared a concern for an emerging pattern of applicant responsibility for systems abuse, in conjunction with emotional abuse, as a significant child protection issue. It also raises issues for the Court when there are multiple risk assessments coming from experts who bring different disciplinary and organisational perspectives. As an exploratory study, the implications of these findings need to be viewed through the lens of protecting the best interests of the child.

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Zuchowski, Ines. "Five years after Carmody: practitioners’ views of changes, challenges and research in child protection." Children Australia 44, no. 03 (June 21, 2019): 146–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2019.14.

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AbstractChild protection work is a complex and difficult area of practice, one that is closely scrutinised and criticised, and impacts on the lives of many children. In Australia, child protection systems are overloaded, and increasing numbers of children and families receive child protection interventions each year. This study explored the views of North Queensland practitioners who work in the child protection field, examining changes and challenges in this field of practice, and their suggestions for the future research that is needed in child protection. The study took place 5 years after the 2013 Queensland Carmody inquiry into child protection intervention, which recommended sweeping changes to the child protection system. Twenty-two practitioners participated in this study. Respondents reported an increase in the complexity of cases, a gap in legislation change/practice frameworks and practice, and the application of trauma-informed practice. They highlighted the intersection of child protection, domestic violence and family law and observed that women and children continue to be exposed to violence because of Family Law Court orders. Respondents identified a number of areas where research is needed.

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Lane, David C., Eileen Munro, and Elke Husemann. "Blending systems thinking approaches for organisational analysis: Reviewing child protection in England." European Journal of Operational Research 251, no. 2 (June 2016): 613–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.10.041.

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Albright, Karen, Laura Schwab Reese, and Richard D. Krugman. "What does effectiveness mean?: A qualitative assessment of two child protection systems." Child Abuse & Neglect 89 (March 2019): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.12.014.

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Jenkins, Brian Q., Clare Tilbury, Paul Mazerolle, and Hennessey Hayes. "The complexity of child protection recurrence: The case for a systems approach." Child Abuse & Neglect 63 (January 2017): 162–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.11.020.

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Saar-Heiman, Yuval, and Anna Gupta. "The Poverty-Aware Paradigm for Child Protection: A Critical Framework for Policy and Practice." British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 4 (August 16, 2019): 1167–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz093.

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Abstract This article aims to present a Poverty-Aware Paradigm for Child Protection (PAPCP). The increasing scholarly recognition of the damaging impact of poverty, inequality and the neoliberal politics of ‘risk’ on child protection policy and practice, has highlighted the need for a justice-based and poverty-aware analytical framework for child protection social work. In order to create such a framework, we build upon Krumer-Nevo’s Poverty-Aware Paradigm (PAP)—that was first presented in a previous issue of the British Journal of Social Work—and adapt its paradigmatic premises to the context of child protection social work. By addressing ontological, epistemological and axiological questions underpinning the construction of risk and the practices utilised to deal with it, the article provides a clear, practical and applicable link between critical theories and everyday child protection practice. The PAPCP is presented against the background of the risk-focused paradigm currently dominating the child protection systems in both the authors’ countries—Israel and England.

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Katz, Ilan, Xiaoyuan Shang, and Yahua Zhang. "Missing Elements of a Child Protection System in China: The Case of LX." Social Policy and Society 10, no. 1 (December 8, 2010): 93–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746410000424.

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Many of the systems which had protected vulnerable children in China have broken down, but China has not developed a modern child protection system. We present initial findings from a project which investigates responses to child abuse and the potential for developing a comprehensive protection process. The research found that physical chastisement is commonly practised. Other forms of maltreatment tend to be denied. There are no mechanisms to report abuse and no organisation taking a lead in child protection. Furthermore, there is great reluctance by professionals and the public to identify or report child abuse and neglect.

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Oates, Fiona, and Kaylene Malthouse. "Working for the Welfare: Support and Supervision Needs of Indigenous Australian Child Protection Practitioners." Social Sciences 10, no. 8 (July 21, 2021): 277. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10080277.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are disproportionately represented in all parts of the child protection system in Australia. The recruitment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners into child protection systems to work with Indigenous families at risk underpins the government strategy to reduce this over-representation. However, little is known about the experiences of Indigenous people who undertake child protection work or what their support and supervision needs may be. This research is centered on Indigenous Australian child protection practitioners as experts in their own experiences and as such includes large excerpts of their own narratives throughout. Practitioner narratives were collected via qualitative semi-structured in-depth interviews. Critical theory and decolonising frameworks underpinned the research design. The study found that Indigenous child protection practitioners have a unique place in the families, communities and profession. Many viewed their work in the child protection field as an extension of their Indigeneity. This coupled with the historical experience of state-sanctioned removal of Indigenous children during colonisation and contemporarily, informs the need for child protection workplaces to re-think the support and supervision afforded to Indigenous practitioners.

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Pösö, Tarja, Marit Skivenes, and Anne-Dorthe Hestbæk. "Child protection systems within the Danish, Finnish and Norwegian welfare states—time for a child centric approach?" European Journal of Social Work 17, no. 4 (August 27, 2013): 475–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2013.829802.

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Obermaier, Michael, and Heike Wiemert. "Konstruktionsfehler im Kinderschutz?" Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Pädagogik 97, no. 1 (March 16, 2021): 36–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/25890581-09701004.

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Abstract Construction Error in Child Protection? An Empirically Supported Interim Conclusion after 15 Years ›Insoweit erfahrene Fachkraft‹ Child protection – as a metaphor for a qualificatory, welfare state-owned, legal and specifically regional future network performance in socio-ecologically understood systems – is for the moment being a nebulous point with regard to the so-called ›Insoweit erfahrene Fachkraft‹ (insofar experienced specialists) in municipal child protection. Not only on the basis of the results of the explorative study presented here is the discussion encouraged whether the introduction of an ›Insoweit erfahrene Fachkraft‹ under § 8 SGB VIII appears to be (extremely) badly designed within municipal child protection, a bureaucratic and financial cul-de-sac, and that is why these results constitute some proflection aid for further research.

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Zhao, Fang, Ning Zhu, and Juha Hämäläinen. "Protection of Children in Difficulty in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Sustainability 13, no. 1 (December 30, 2020): 279. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13010279.

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This study investigated the resilience of the Chinese child protection system in responding to the special needs of children in difficulty under the specific circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study applied qualitative document analysis of child protection administrative documents, in-depth interviews with 13 child protection professionals, and an in-depth case study of 14 children living in difficulty, complemented by relevant information available in the media. The results indicate that there are good policies in China’s child protection services but the organizational and functional fragmentation complicates implementation, suggesting a need for the development of bottom-up practices. The essential conclusion supported by these results is that the child protection system should be regarded and developed as a systematic project combining the legal, policymaking, and professional systems of child welfare services as well as governmental and non-governmental forces. As the COVID-19 pandemic has raised awareness of the need to develop the field of child protection holistically as an integrated system in terms of social sustainability in China, an international literature-based comparison indicates that the pandemic has also raised similar political awareness in other countries.

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Panda, Ranjan Kanti, Lopamudra Mullick, Subhadeep Adhikari, Neepa Basu, and Archana Kumari. "Essence and Scope of Strengthening Community-Based Preventive Child Care and Protection Systems in India." Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond 7, no. 1 (March 2020): 47–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2349300319894866.

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This article reflects different programmes and resource components that may be promoted to keep children with either their own family or within alternative family care, satisfying the rights of their overall development. In India, the concept of promoting family-based care mechanisms through government systems has not been fully realised, owing to lack of synergy between resource allocation and existing government programmes, policies and plans of action for child protection. Additionally, the common public discourse is that Child Care Institutions (CCIs) offer suitable care and protection for children outside the parental care. CCIs continue to be identified as the ultimate and the most common response for children at risk. This practice nullifies the scope to explore opportunities for the child to live with their family or in any alternative family care mechanisms. Child in Need Institute (CINI), 1 1 CINI is a national level development organization working on establishing child-friendly communities through its work on health, nutrition, child protection and education for the last forty-five years in India. partnering with Hope and Homes for Children, have analysed the vulnerability factors that led children to arrive at the selected CCIs in Ranchi and Khunti districts of Jharkhand in India. While working with children in the communities, CINI endeavoured to understand the drivers and vulnerabilities leading to family/child separation and what mechanisms could address the vulnerabilities at source and prevent separation. CINI promoted a participatory governance process with the involvement of community-level institutions along with children’s and women’s groups, incubating safe spaces for children that aided in identifying, tracking and promoting multi-sectoral development plans for children at risk.

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Pais, Marta Santos. "The protection of children from sexual exploitation Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography." International Journal of Children's Rights 18, no. 4 (2010): 551–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157181810x536815.

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AbstractThe Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography provide a sound normative foundation for children's protection from sexual abuse and exploitation and for the adoption of legislative, policy and other measures to prevent and address these child rights violations. With the commemoration in 2010 of the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention and the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Protocol, there is a strategic opportunity to promote universal ratification of these standards and to strengthen concerted efforts for their effective implementation. With this aim, a UN campaign has been launched to achieve universal ratification of the Protocol by 2012, to ensure the safeguard of children's protection from sexual abuse and exploitation as a legal imperative and a global priority, to prevent loopholes in child protection systems and to fight impunity within and across borders.

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Cavanagh, Jo. "Children and Young People in Out-of-Home Care: Treating and preventing individual, programmatic and systems abuse." Children Australia 17, no. 2 (1992): 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s103507720000794x.

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It is well recognised that the maltreatment of children results from a range of factors; some residing within the person, their family history and background, and others, clearly attributable to social stress and difficulties originating external to the family. In the last few decades, child welfare efforts have centred on the improvement of Child Protection Services and raising the prevention of child abuse as a community concern. More recently, attention has been focussed on strengthening the capacity of families to nurture and protect their own as the best means of meeting the developmental needs of children. However, our best efforts to assist families may still necessitate removal to protect the child.Research has identified that children removed for their own protection may be at even greater risk in out-of-home care. (Ryan 1987, Dawson 1984) Whether the incidence of abuse of children in out-of-home care is currently equivalent or higher than for the general population, is at this point a secondary concern. Out-of-home care is an essential and complex service. It is imperative to acknowledge that abuse can occur within the very system entrusted with the responsibility of protecting and caring for vulnerable children and young people.

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Wastell, David. "Risk as ‘Make-Believe’: The Case of Child Protection." Journal of Information Technology 26, no. 4 (December 2011): 282–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jit.2011.11.

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Canavera, Mark, Kiryn Lanning, Katherine Polin, and Lindsay Stark. "‘And then they left’: Challenges to child protection systems strengthening in South Sudan." Children & Society 30, no. 5 (August 10, 2016): 356–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/chso.12172.

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Malvaso, Catia G., Paul H. Delfabbro, Andrew Day, and Gavin Nobes. "Young People Under Youth Justice Supervision With Varying Child Protection Histories: An Analysis of Group Differences." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 63, no. 2 (August 10, 2018): 159–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x18791735.

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There is now convincing evidence that childhood maltreatment is associated with youth offending; however, relatively little is known about the characteristics and needs of those who are involved in both the child protection and youth justice systems, and the extent to which these might differ according to level of child protection involvement. This study reports the characteristics and needs of 2,045 young people who were under supervision in secure custody or detention in South Australia between 1995 and 2012 according to the level of exposure to the child protection system in an Australian jurisdiction. Five groups of young offenders were compared: (a) no known child protection notifications or substantiated experience of abuse and/or neglect, (b) notifications only, (c) substantiated notifications, (d) notifications or substantiations and subsequent placement in out-of-home care (OHC), and (e) placement in OHC only. The results indicate that young people who have a history of child protection system involvement have significantly greater and more complex needs than those who have no child protection experience. It is concluded that different service responses may be required to meet the diverse needs of these groups of young people under youth justice supervision.

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Pun, Bishwa Ratna, and Gyanendra Kumar Shrestha. "Assessment of Child Sensitive Social Protection Programmes in Nepal." Journal of Social Protection 1 (December 1, 2020): 51–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jsp.v1i0.38211.

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Studies have shown that social protection programme can be detrimental to children if it is not designed and implemented in a proper way. Even programmes focusing on children can be counter-effective and can leave a long-term adverse effect in the lives of children. This article aims to assess the children focused social protection programmes in Nepal from a child rights perspective with a specific consideration around the area of social assistance. This article adopts a Core Diagnostic Systems Assessment Instrument (CODI) tool and is primarily based on secondary data. Results show that the current social protection system, especially focused on children, in Nepal lacks several elements of child sensitivity such as ‘adequacy’, ‘respect rights and dignity’ in designing and implementation. Furthermore, though the Government of Nepal prioritise social assistance by channeling reasonable funding, the share of children focused programmes is relatively low. Any investment made on children currently, would result in their better future and the country at large. Thus, increasing social assistance targeting children will contribute to better child protection and eventually have significant development impacts. This will also be critical in ensuring the rights of children in general and vulnerable children in particular.

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Kearney, Jeremy. "In the Loop." Social Work and Social Sciences Review 16, no. 3 (August 5, 2013): 7–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v16i3.539.

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The question of how to protect children from non-accidental harm has dominated child welfare discourse in England since the death of Maria Colwell in 1973. For over 40 years, the history of child care policy and in particular, child protection policy has been the history of the policymakers’ responses to particular tragedies and scandals. The Munro Review of Child Protection (2011) is the most recent attempt to introduce major changes into the child protection system. This paper focuses on two particular aspects of the Review. Firstly, it examines how it constructs the meaning of ‘child protection’, as this is not clearly defined by the review. Secondly, the use of systems theory as the analytical framework is examined and some limitations of its focus on the organisational level of context are discussed. It is suggested that these two issues are interrelated and act to limit the possibilities of fundamental change in the child protection system. Drawing on the work of communication theorist, Gregory Bateson, and conceptual and practical developments within the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) approach, it is argued that social workers are required to operate simultaneously within multiple, and often incompatible, contexts. For radical change to take place in the child protection system, the utopian bias that the system should prevent all non-accidental deaths needs to be abandoned.

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Mendes, Philip. "Marxist and feminist critiques of child protection: To protect children or to change society?" Children Australia 24, no. 2 (1999): 27–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s103507720000910x.

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This paper critically examines Marxist and feminist literature on child protection, and identifies both their strengths and weaknesses. The author concludes that, while both ideologies call for broader policy reforms to address the prevalence of poverty and male violence, the core responsibility of statutory systems remains the protection of children and their rights.

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Werkmeister Rozas, Lisa, Jason Ostrander, and Megan Feely. "Inequalities in US Child Protection: The Case of Sex Trafficked Youth." Social Sciences 7, no. 8 (August 13, 2018): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci7080135.

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This article demonstrates how structural social work theory and critical consciousness development can be used to help facilitate a transition from a deficit model approach to an inequities perspective in a child welfare system that was working to improve the identification of and services for domestic minor sex trafficked youth (DMST). The response of Connecticut’s child welfare system to the issue of DMST is provided as an example of how a child welfare systems could apply an inequities perspective to a population involved in and at risk for exploitation. Structural social work theory helps illustrate how neo-liberalist social structures in the United States perpetuate and maintain social inequity based on race, gender, age, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status for youth at risk for DMST. Through critical consciousness development, youth can be recognized as victims of intersecting forms of oppression, rather than criminals. These theories can be combined to increase individual awareness of the risks and oppression of youth across the population, and to identify how child welfare services can be leveraged to decrease inequities and improve child well-being.

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Gill, Amy, and Grace Oakley. "Agency Workers’ Perceptions of Cross-System Collaboration to Support Students in Out-of-Home Care." Children Australia 43, no. 1 (January 30, 2018): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2018.1.

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Children and young people in out-of-home care (OOHC) experience a wide range of educational issues at rates disproportionate to their peers. Collaboration between child protection and education systems is critical to addressing unique educational needs within this cohort. This article presents a qualitative case study investigating child protection workers’ perceptions of their work with primary and high school educators in Western Australia. Methods included policy analysis and in-depth interviews with a purposeful sample of 11 Case Workers and Education Officers employed by The Department for Child Protection and Family Support in metropolitan, regional and remote locations in Western Australia. Overall, participants reported that a jointly established Memorandum of Understanding had helped strengthen mutual accountability for education planning to support students in OOHC. However, difficulties obtaining Documented Education Plans and limited access to supplementary educational supports within both systems were considerable sources of tension. An adaptation of Whittington's (2003) Two-Stage Model of Collaboration illustrates the hierarchical nature of the influences on cross-system collaboration in the present study. While the size of the study limited its scope to one stakeholder group, the study offers frontline insights that may inform the development of future education and child protection agency initiatives.

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Delfabbro, Paul, Craig Hirte, Ros Wilson, and Nancy Rogers. "Longitudinal trends in child protection statistics in South Australia: A study of unit record data." Children Australia 35, no. 3 (2010): 4–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200001115.

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In Australia, it is commonly reported that rates of child protection notifications have increased over time. More and more children in any given year are subject to a child protection notification. On the whole, these conclusions have been based on cross-sectional notification counts or rates recorded in a given year (e.g. AIHW 2009). Although useful, such analyses are limited in that they do not account for the fact that child protection incidents are unevenly distributed across individual cases. Crosssectional analyses also do not indicate the incidence of notifications within a given cohort of children.In this paper, we summarise the longitudinal and comparative analysis of data relating to children born in 1991, 1998 and 2002. The results highlight the increasingly early involvement of child protection systems in children's lives, higher annual incidence rates, as well as increasingly steep cumulative involvement curves for cohorts tracked from their year of birth. The implications of these findings for mandatory reporting policies are discussed.

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Pérez-Hernando, Sara, and Nuria Fuentes-Peláez. "The Potential of Networks for Families in the Child Protection System: A Systematic Review." Social Sciences 9, no. 5 (May 6, 2020): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci9050070.

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There has recently been increased interest in the potential for formal and informal networks to aid interventions with biologic families in helping them achieve reunification in the context of the child protection system. When group support is provided to families, the creation of a network of social support seems to be a consequence. The article analyzes the conceptualization of social support in order to create social support networks and the benefits on the intervention with families in the framework of the child protection system through a systematic review. From a wide search 4348 documents, finally 14 articles were included in the reviews. Results show that social support is considered a process by which social resources are provided from formal (professional services and programs associated with those services in any off the protection, health of educational systems) and informal (extended family, friends, neighbors and acquaintances) networks, allowing the families to confront daily moments as well as in crisis situations. This social support is related to emotional, psychological, physical, instrumental, material and information support that allow families to face their difficulties. Formal and informal networks of child protection systems contribute to social support, resilience, consolidation of learning and the assistance of families to social intervention programs.

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Dolan, Patrick, Nevenca Zegarac, and Jelena Arsic. "Family Support as a right of the child." Social Work and Social Sciences Review 21, no. 2 (May 18, 2020): 8–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v21i2.1417.

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This paper considers Family Support as a fundamental right of the child. It examines the relationship between the well-being of the child as the core concept of contemporary legal and welfare systems and family as a vital institution in society for the protection, development and ensuring the overall well-being of the child. Considering the fact that international legal standards recognise that children’s rights are best met in the family environment, the paper analyses what kind of support is being provided to families by the modern societies in the exercising of children’s rights and with what rhetoric and outcomes. Family Support is also considered as a specific, theoretically grounded and empirically tested practical approach to exercising and protecting the rights of the child. Finally, international legal standards are observed in the context of contemporary theory and practice of Family Support, while the conclusion provides the implications of such an approach.

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