Historical Foundations of Canadian Child Welfare and Mandatory Reporting

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Lea Tufford
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Mandatory Reporting ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Canadian Child ◽  
Indigenous Children

This chapter explores the historical foundations of Canadian child welfare and mandatory reporting of child maltreatment. The first section addresses the changing conceptions of childhood from the Middle Ages through Canadian confederation to the present time. Legislation, both Canadian and international, which has profoundly impacted children’s lives is reviewed along with prominent figures who have increased our understanding of the attachment needs of children. What follows is an overview of the historical rise of the child welfare system in Canada and the jurisdictional separation of child welfare under provincial and territorial realms. The final section addresses the involvement of Canada’s Indigenous children in the child welfare system and provides a comprehensive overview of historical injustices against Indigenous peoples.

Who Is and Is Not Served by Child Protective Services Systems? Implications for a Prevention Infrastructure to Reduce Child Maltreatment

2020 ◽  
Vol 692 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-202
Author(s):  
Kristen S. Slack ◽  
Lawrence M. Berger
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Child Safety ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Child Maltreatment Prevention

The majority of alleged abuse or neglect reports to the U.S. child welfare system are either screened out prior to an investigation (i.e., at the “hotline” stage) or investigated only to be closed with no finding of immediate child safety concerns. Yet while many of these children and families are at risk of subsequent incidents of child maltreatment or child welfare system involvement, they are not systematically offered services or benefits intended to reduce this risk at the point that child protective services (CPS) ends its involvement. This article provides an overview of the “front end” of the child welfare system, commonly referred to as CPS, highlighting which families are served and which are not. We then argue for a systematic and coordinated child maltreatment prevention infrastructure that incorporates elements of “community response” programs that several U.S. states have implemented in recent years. Such programs are focused on families that have been reported to, and sometimes investigated by, CPS, but no ongoing CPS case is opened. We further argue that such programs need to pay particular attention to economic issues that these families face.

The Centrality of Child Maltreatment to Criminology

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Font ◽  
Reeve Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Crime And Delinquency ◽  
Comprehensive Measurement

Despite sufficient evidence to conclude that maltreatment exposure affects the risk of crime and delinquency, we conclude that the magnitude and specificity of effects of child maltreatment on crime and delinquency and the mechanisms through which those effects operate remain poorly identified. Key challenges include insufficient attention to the overlap of child maltreatment with various forms of family dysfunction and adversity and a lack of comprehensive measurement of the multiple, often comorbid, forms of child maltreatment. We then consider the potential impacts of the child welfare system on the maltreatment–crime link. Because the child welfare system typically provides voluntary, short-term services of unknown quality, it likely neither increases nor reduces risks of delinquency and crime for most children who are referred or investigated. For the comparatively small (although nominally large and important) subset of children experiencing foster care, impacts on delinquency and crime likely vary by the quality of environments within and after their time in care—issues that, to date, have received too little attention. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Criminology, Volume 5 is January 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

'Here's my Story': Fathers of 'Looked After' Children Recount their Experiences in the Canadian Child Welfare System

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Dominelli ◽  
S. Strega ◽  
C. Walmsley ◽  
M. Callahan ◽  
L. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Canadian Child ◽  
Looked After Children

One Piece in the Child Welfare Puzzle: An Evaluation of Alabama Public Child Welfare Internships and Subsequent Employment

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
Carolyn Seroka ◽  
Carole Zugazaga
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
White Child ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
State Child ◽  
Black Employees

Intervention with families and children when child maltreatment is suspected is one of the most critical practice areas of social work. This study examined the level of satisfaction for current child welfare stipend interns (n=106), the majority of whom were BSW students, and former stipend interns (n=59) after 1 year of employment within the Alabama state child welfare system. Overall, participants were satisfied with both internship and employment; however, job satisfaction for White child welfare employees was significantly higher than for Black employees. Sixty-two percent of the employees did not expect to remain employed with the agency over the next 5 years.

Supervisory neglect and risk of harm. Evidence from the Canadian Child Welfare System

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 471-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónica Ruiz-Casares ◽  
Nico Trocmé ◽  
Barbara Fallon
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Canadian Child
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