Can Judges, Attorneys and Child Protection Use the Same Criteria for Child Safety Decisions?

INTRODUCTION: Grandparents are increasingly involved in the care of grandchildren, including after child protection intervention.METHOD: A recent Australian qualitative research partnership explored how relationships between grandparents and their grandchildren could be optimised after child safety concerns. Interviews and focus groups were undertaken with 77 participants, including 51 grandparents, 12 parents, six foster carers and eight child and family workers. Emerging themes reported here focus on the role of grandparents and their perceptions of, and interactions with, the child protection system.FINDINGS: Overall, findings identify that grandparents wanted to help safeguard their grandchildren but many encountered an adversarial child protection system that left them feeling powerless, fearful and unimportant. Aboriginal participants reiterated that child protection workers needed to better understand how maintaining kinship networks provided a protective factor for Aboriginal children, and that grandparents were key stakeholders in their grandchildren’s lives.IMPLICATIONS: The findings from this study affirm the value and role of grandparents and highlight the need for implemented family-inclusive child protection practice within and beyond the Australian context.

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Public Health Nurses’ Professional Practices to Prevent, Recognize, and Respond to Suspected Child Maltreatment in Home Visiting: An Interpretive Descriptive Study

Global Qualitative Nursing Research ◽

10.1177/2333393621993450 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

pp. 233339362199345

Author(s):

Susan M. Jack ◽

Andrea Gonzalez ◽

Lenora Marcellus ◽

Lil Tonmyr ◽

Colleen Varcoe ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Child Maltreatment ◽

Child Protection ◽

Home Visiting ◽

Public Health Nurses ◽

Child Safety ◽

Interpretive Description ◽

Parenting Skills ◽

Client Relationships ◽

Client Relationship

The purpose of this analysis was to understand public health nurses’ experiences in preventing and addressing suspected child maltreatment within the context of home visiting. The principles of interpretive description guided study decisions and data were generated from interviews with 47 public health nurses. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. The findings highlighted that public health nurses have an important role in the primary prevention of child maltreatment. These nurses described a six-step process for managing their duty to report suspected child maltreatment within the context of nurse-client relationships. When indicators of suspected child maltreatment were present, examination of experiential practice revealed that nurses developed reporting processes that maximized child safety, highlighted maternal strengths, and created opportunities to maintain the nurse-client relationship. Even with child protection involvement, public health nurses have a central role in continuing to work with families to develop safe and competent parenting skills.

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Concerning Reason and Common Sense: Rousseau, Wonder Woman, and the Hyper-Vigilance of Children

Brock Education Journal ◽

10.26522/brocked.v15i1.66 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Clinton E. Betts ◽

Andrea F. J. Betts

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

Common Sense ◽

Child Protection ◽

Child Safety ◽

Safety Education ◽

Childhood Education ◽

Wonder Woman

A considered voice needs to be given to concerns regarding reason and common sense as applied to early childhood education, child protection issues, parenting, and school vigilance over such matters. This paper utilizes the theories of H. Giroux and N. Postman, amongst others, to discuss the knowledge and critical acumen of those who actualize policy with regard to child safety, education, protection, and the vigilance or perhaps hyper-vigilance which results.

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Touchy Subject: A Foucauldian Analysis of Coaches’ Perceptions of Adult-Child Touch in Youth Swimming

Sociology of Sport Journal ◽

10.1123/ssj.2013-0083 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 4-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Melanie Lang

Keyword(s):

Child Protection ◽

Adult Child ◽

Child Safety ◽

Young Athletes ◽

Safety Concerns ◽

Foucauldian Analysis ◽

The Impact

It has been suggested that child safety discourses are creating an environment in which safety from abuse defines every act of adult-child touch as suspicious, resulting in adults who work with children being positioned as ‘risky’ and child-related settings becoming no-touch zones. Research on the impact of these discourses on coaches is limited and there have been few attempts to theorize coaches’ behaviors to better understand how child safety concerns impact on their practice. Focusing on coaches’ avoidance of child touch, this paper uses a Foucauldian perspective to explore coaches’ embodied disciplinary and emancipatory responses to child protection discourses in competitive youth swimming. It also discusses the implications of coaches’ apprehension about child touch on swimming practice and young athletes.

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Keeping Children Safe is Good Business: The Enterprise of Child Safety in the Age of Reagan

Enterprise & Society ◽

10.1017/eso.2015.65 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 151-187

Author(s):

PAUL MOKRZYCKI RENFRO

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Private Sector ◽

Federal Government ◽

Child Protection ◽

Ronald Reagan ◽

The State ◽

Child Safety ◽

For Profit ◽

Missing Children ◽

American Children

This essay investigates the ways in which child safety became an enterprise during the child protection crusade of the 1980s. Americans clamored for an increased federal presence in “the battle for child safety,” but they made such calls in a climate of intense governmental distrust. The federal governmentdidassume a larger role on the issue of missing and exploited children with the passage of the Missing Children and Missing Children’s Assistance Acts of 1982 and 1984, respectively. But, as this essay demonstrates, the state also stressed the primacy of the private sector—and specifically for-profit companies—in protecting American children. The celebration by President Ronald Reagan and others of private sector efforts to raise awareness about and “save” American youngsters laid the groundwork for a broaderchild safety apparatusthat took hold in the final decades of the twentieth century.

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Implementation of Child Protection Policy in a Public School

Philippine Social Science Journal ◽

10.52006/main.v3i2.276 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 61-62

Author(s):

Japhet Z. Matulac ◽

Karen L. Zamora

Keyword(s):

Public School ◽

Child Protection ◽

Action Plan ◽

School Personnel ◽

Department Of Education ◽

Child Safety ◽

Safe Environment ◽

Protection Policy ◽

School Year ◽

Child Protection Policy

Child protection policy gives guidelines and rules to the Child Protection Committee to create a secured and safe environment for learners. It is a tool that protects both learners and school personnel by clearly characterizing the arrangements and measures for child protection and by practicing a reliable behavior toward child-safety. Hence, the paper examines the level of implementation of the Department of Education (DepEd) Child Protection from a public school in the Division of Bacolod City during the School Year 2018-2019. This study was conducted to create awareness among school personnel regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the implementation of the Child Protection Policy in its jurisdiction. The researcher utilized the result of the study in making an action plan that serves as a mechanism to ensure the school's full implementation of its Child Protection Policy.

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