Creating Change through Collaboration: Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Policy and Practice Innovations

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy K. Young ◽  
Denise Churchill ◽  
Sam Gillespie ◽  
Peter Panzarella
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Child Welfare Policy

Beyond safety and permanency: Making well-being a focus of policy and practice for children in state care

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Mark E. Courtney
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Child Safety ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Child Welfare Policy ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Permanency Outcomes

This essay explores some of the reasons why child welfare policy has too often avoided an explicit focus on child well-being. The historical origins of child welfare services contribute to avoidance of child well-being in policy discourse. In addition, program administrators are reluctant to explicitly take responsibility for the well-being of children they serve because of concerns about added liability, the belief that public institutions other than the child welfare system should be held responsible, and the fear that child welfare services will be unable to ameliorate the damage that children often suffer before entering care. Three empirical studies of child welfare populations in the US are used to examine the inextricable links between child safety, permanency and well-being. It is argued that broadening child welfare policy to embrace child well-being as a policy goal will only enhance the likelihood that child welfare agencies will improve child safety and permanency outcomes.

Developing a Measurement of Child Welfare Policy and Practice: Local Supervisory Review Instrument

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haksoon Ahn ◽  
Philip J. Osteen ◽  
Julia O'Connor ◽  
Terry V. Shaw ◽  
Linda Carter
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Child Welfare Policy

Research, policy and practice

2018 ◽  
pp. 68-80
Author(s):  
Nick Frost ◽  
Bernie Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Family Group ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Child Welfare Policy ◽  
Family Based

This chapter examines research evidence that underpins family group conferences (FGCs) and addresses its implications for policy and practice. There are powerful value-based reasons for engaging with FGCs. The evidence base around the process of FGCs is strong; families find the process, in the main, empowering and engaging. Meanwhile, the evidence base in relation to the outcomes of FGCs is mixed in relation to both safeguarding and care placements, as studies have found positive, negative, and neutral outcomes following FGCs. There is no doubt that there is a requirement for more outcome-focused studies of FGCs. Nevertheless, as many researchers argue, there is enough evidence and professional and family-based experience to make a powerful argument for the embedding of FGCs in child welfare policy and practice.

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