How to Design and Implement Your Children’s Services Outcomes Management Program: A Practical Training Institute for Child Welfare, Behavioral Health, and Substance Abuse Services

1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-155
Author(s):  
Bridget Meaney
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Substance Abuse Services ◽  
Children’S Services ◽  
Outcomes Management ◽  
Training Institute

New Labour, children’s services and the third sector

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Alison Body
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Labour Government ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Children’S Services

In chapter 1 we provide an overview of the concept of prevention within child welfare, particularly under the New Labour government (1997-2010). Coming to power in 1997, Labour placed considerable focus, and financial investment, on reducing child poverty and social exclusion, and increasing universal early intervention support and coordination between services. The role of the voluntary sector became mainstream in the provision of children’s services, with the launch of several high-profile initiatives. Focusing on the concept of ‘prevention’ within child welfare and building on these shifting understandings of childhood and the concerns for children, this chapter explores how social policy operationalised under the Labour government; from how Labour developed strategies to tackle issues surrounding children and young people who are considered disadvantaged, vulnerable or at risk and how they mobilised the voluntary sector within this response.

Putting children's services in their place: A call for universal children's services to prevent child abuse and neglect in Australia

2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Winkworth
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Early Intervention ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Childhood Intervention ◽  
Children’S Services

This paper discusses the need for a national early childhood intervention policy in Australia, including a universal approach to children's services as a platform for the prevention of child abuse and neglect, supporting families and enriching the lives of all children.It considers the literature on early intervention, including the theoretical and research base of successful programs and the link between early intervention and the prevention of child abuse and neglect. It examines the way the child welfare and children's services sectors have grown and the imperative at the beginning of the 21st century for a closer alignment of services.The United Kingdom's ‘Sure Start’ early intervention strategy is considered in so far as it attempts to develop a more comprehensive approach to child welfare by developing programs which are based on the research. Finally the paper asserts that recent strategies introduced by Federal and State Governments to promote childhood health and wellbeing are positive first steps, but need to go further to seriously address increasing numbers of children reported as suffering harm through abuse and/or neglect.

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