A Collaborative Practice Framework for Child Protection and Specialist Domestic and Family Violence Services: Bridging the Research and Practice Divide

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Healey ◽  
Marie Connolly ◽  
Cathy Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Collaborative Practice ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Practice Framework

Building Collaboration with Child Protection and Domestic and Family Violence Sectors: Trialling a Living Lab Approach

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Wendt ◽  
Carmela Bastian ◽  
Michelle Jones
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Cultural Safety ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Competing Priorities ◽  
Future Work

Abstract Collaboration across child protection and domestic and family violence (DFV) sectors have long been sought despite the competing priorities found in these practice fields. This article describes a research partnership that aimed to explore the competing priorities by focusing on how workers interact across child protection and DFV specialist agencies. Using a Living Lab Approach, enabled twelve focus groups with child protection and DFV social workers (n = 100). Thematic analysis was conducted, and it was found that diverse understandings of DFV created tensions when trying to form collaborations. These tensions were often amplified when other intersecting issues were present in family lives such as drug and alcohol and mental health problems. Understandings of Aboriginal cultural safety, and religious and culture impacts for cultural and linguistically diverse families were unintentionally sidelined. However, practitioners also formed common understandings of opportunities to progress and sustain collaboration across the sectors. The Living Lab Approach facilitated the development of a policy and practice guide for child protection to support future work. This has implications for social work practice because the Living Lab Approach enabled a call for a consistent approach to DFV that should be gender sensitive, trauma informed and culturally safe, and collaboration at practitioner, team and organisational levels.

Practitioners' Constructions of Parent Abuse

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Nixon
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Causal Explanations ◽  
Parent Abuse

Drawing on data collected as part of a qualitative study on parent abuse, this article explores how child to parent violence is constructed by professionals working within the three related domains of youth justice, domestic violence and child protection. The article, a discussion piece, charts the continuities and contradictions contained within practitioners’ understandings of this form of family violence, focusing on how the problem emerges, the causal explanations employed and their impact on practice responses.

scholarly journals A multitheoretical perspective for addressing domestic and family violence: Supporting fathers to parent without harm

2021 ◽  
pp. 146801732110285
Author(s):  
Emma Gatfield ◽  
Patrick O’Leary ◽  
Silke Meyer ◽  
Kathleen Baird
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
Intact Families ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
And Behavior

Summary Domestic and family violence remains a significant challenge to family wellbeing. The risk of serious harm from domestic and family violence is disproportionally carried by women and children, yet often the complex reality of family life means that many families have ongoing contact with their abusers. Responses to this problem are frequently siloed across child protection and specialist domestic violence services, leading to a lack of holistic intervention. More recently, there has been increased attention on addressing the role and behavior of abusive fathers, especially where fathers remain in families or have ongoing contact postseparation through coparenting. This paper offers a systemic approach for understanding and addressing such amilies. Findings An integrated theoretical framework is proposed, which draws together key tenets of feminism, family violence, and intersectional theories within a systems-oriented model. It frames families, inclusive of fathers, within their eco-social contexts, highlighting factors that exacerbate domestic and family violence, and those that increase family safety, which has strong applications for social work practice. Applications An integrated theoretical framework offers an approach for social workers for understanding domestic and family violence in a broad-based and holistic manner, and for developing coordinated family focused interventions while concurrently addressing related child welfare concerns and family safety. A range of considerations for case management of families are explored, which, while relevant to most intact families or those who have continuing contact with perpetrators, holds particular relevance for marginalized families that present with complex needs and experiences of disadvantage.

Analysis of Child Rights Violation: Forced Marriage Underage and Collaborative Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Ika Purnamasari
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Collaborative Practice ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Hospital Treatment ◽  
Case Description ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Forced Marriage

Children's rights are part of human rights that must be guaranteed, protected and fulfilled by parents, family, community, state, government and local government. This article discussed the analysis of a case of violation of children's rights in the form of forced marriage to a child. The case description is an 11-years old girl forced to marry a 50-years old man. The child was bleeding and frightened and then the child was admitted to a hospital. The question that arises based on the description of the case is "How is the collaborative practice in handling the child while in hospital treatment in terms of the Child Protection and Patient Safety Law?". The analytical method used in this case description was a literature study that focuses on reviewing legal aspects, patient safety and collaborative practice in handling the case. The results of the analysis show that in this case there has been a violation of the Child Protection Law, the child must receive safety during treatment and receive collaboration from multi-disciplinary professions. Every child has the right to grow and develop according to his/her age safely and in accordance with his dignity as a human being.

The nature of domestic and family violence reported to child protection prenatally

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 105685
Author(s):  
Jenna Meiksans ◽  
Stewart McDougall ◽  
Fiona Arney ◽  
Rosemaria Flaherty ◽  
Alwin Chong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Child Protection

scholarly journals El traslado ilícito de menores en la Unión Europea: retorno vs violencia familiar o doméstica = International child abduction in the European Union: return of the child vs domestic or family violence

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 610
Author(s):  
Isabel Reig Fabado
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Hague Convention ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Child Abduction ◽  
International Child ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Violencia Domestica ◽  
The Hague Convention

Resumen: Cada vez resulta más habitual la concurrencia de violencia doméstica o familiar en los supuestos de sustracción internacional de menores, en los que la retención o el traslado ilícito del menor se utiliza como una vía de alejamiento. El sistema de retorno inmediato del menor del Convenio de la Haya de 1980 prevé esta circunstancia bajo la excepción de grave riesgo del artículo 13.1.b), en un marco regulador poliédrico, que se completa con el Reglamento 2201/2003, Bruselas II bis –para los traslados intracomunitarios– y con las medidas de protección previstas en el Convenio de la Haya de 1996 –entre los Estados parte– y el procedimiento del Capítulo IV bis de la LEC española. Los problemas en la aplicación práctica y la apreciación del interés superior del menor se revelan especialmente polémicos en estos supuestos, sobre todo por lo que respecta a las ejecutorias.Palabras clave: sustracción internacional de menores, violencia doméstica o familiar, retorno seguro, carácter ejecutorio, medidas de protección del menor, derecho de audiencia del menor.Abstract: The occurrence of domestic or family violence in cases of international child abduction is increasingly common, in which the detention or illegal transfer of the child is used as a means of alienation. The system of immediate return of the child of the Hague Convention of 1980 provides for this circumstance with the exception of grave risk of harm of article 13(1)(b), in a polyhedral regulatory framework, which is completed by Regulation 2201/2003, Brussels IIa –for intra-EU cases– and with the protection measures provided for in the Hague Convention of 1996 -between the States Parties- and the procedure of Chapter IV bis of the Spanish Civil Prosecution Law. Problems in the practical application and appreciation of the best interests of the child are particularly controversial in these cases.Keywords: international child abduction, domestic or family violence, safe return, enforceability, child protection measures, right of a child to be heard.

scholarly journals Child protection services in Queensland post-Forde Inquiry

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Tilbury
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Outcome Indicators ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Policy Statements ◽  
And Performance

There have been major developments in child protection services in Queensland since the 1999 Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions (the ‘Forde Inquiry’). This article discusses the nature of the changes that have occurred against the backdrop of a major debate in contemporary child protection research and practice – balancing forensic/legalistic and family support approaches to protecting children. Based upon an analysis of departmental annual reports, budget documents, policy statements and child protection administrative data, the article examines developments in policy directions, service provision, client trends and performance during the period. It shows that significant investment has increased the quantity of services available, but policy and program developments are yet to show an impact upon service quality and outcome indicators for children and families.

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