Making Child Protection Policy: The Crime and Misconduct Commission Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Foster Care in Queensland

2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Tilbury ◽  
Paul Mazerolle
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Protection Policy ◽  
Children In Foster Care ◽  
Child Protection Policy

scholarly journals Child Protection Policy Awareness of Teachers and Responsiveness of the School: Their Relationship and Implications

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
John Mark R. Asio ◽  
Shallimar A. Bayucca ◽  
Edward C. Jimenez
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Protection Policy ◽  
Policy Awareness ◽  
Policy Program ◽  
Being Bullied ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Child Protection Policy

In every institution in the country, there are countless stories of children being bullied, abused, or maltreated. This can happen inside a school or outside its premises. A child protection policy is a must to protect these children. This study assesses the child protection policy awareness of teachers and the responsiveness of the schools. It also wanted to know the relationship and program implications. The researchers used a descriptive-correlation research design with the survey as the primary data-gathering tool. 146 teachers from seven different schools in a city in Bulacan, Philippines took part in the survey. The study also adopted an instrument from Macatimpag (2018). To analyze the data, the proponents used mean, t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson-r. The results showed that teachers were aware of the Child Protection Policy program of the Department of Education. However, the responsiveness of the schools is not very high. There were significant differences in the results observed in the awareness of teachers and the responsiveness of the schools. In addition, there is a moderate relationship between the awareness of teachers in the Child Protection policy with the responsiveness of the school about the program. Based on the aforementioned findings of the study,the researchers have provided some implications of the study for future references.

scholarly journals “If I’m Here, It’s Because I Do Not Have Anyone”: Social Support for the Biological Family during the Foster Care Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduard Vaquero ◽  
M. Àngels Balsells ◽  
Carmen Ponce ◽  
Aida Urrea ◽  
Alicia Navajas
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Protection Measure ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
Children In Foster Care ◽  
Care Processes ◽  
Support Resources ◽  
Social Support Resources

Social support is a crucial element for families in vulnerable situations, especially for those with children in foster care processes. This support is key to the acceptance of the protection measure in the initial moments and to laying the foundations for collaboration towards reunification. However, the social support of these families is limited, and families’ use of support elements is strongly related to their attitude towards them. The aims of this article were to identify the types and characteristics of social support and to analyze what elements influence families’ attitudes towards these supports. The qualitative study research was carried out in Spain through focus groups and interviews with 135 participants: 63 professionals from child protection services, 42 parents, and 30 children and adolescents who had been in foster care measures. Results show the diversity of social support resources available to families and demonstrate that families make unequal use of such resources depending on factors such as their experiences in the process of formalization and communication of the protection measure or their predisposition to receive support, among others. The important role played by social support resources in the promotion of factors that allow for successful reception and reunification is highlighted.

Preventing and responding to errors in US child protection

2020 ◽  
pp. 235-254
Author(s):  
Jill Duerr Berrick ◽  
Jaclyn Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Predictive Analytics ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Protection Policy ◽  
Risk Assessment Tools ◽  
The Us ◽  
Child Protection Policy

This chapter demonstrates how concerns about avoiding errors and mistakes have been at the centre of child protection policy and practice in the US for many years. In particular the chapter focuses on providing a summary of the state of the art relating to risk assessment tools and predictive analytics as strategies to reduce error in child welfare decision making. It also examines whether our understanding of ‘error’ needs to shift to account for the unknowns. When social workers make decisions based upon fundamental principles, and when they determine that it is in the interests of a child to privilege one principle over another, the result may appear in hindsight as an “error”, but when made as a decision guided by one widely-held principle which was in direct conflict with another. Examining child welfare decision making as a process of selecting and then privileging one principle over another narrows what we might otherwise think of as an ‘error’ and instead recasts some decisions as exceedingly difficult to get ‘right’.

scholarly journals The contemporary refocusing of children’s services in England

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 85-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Parton ◽  
Sasha Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Protection Policy ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
Social Reaction ◽  
Child Protection Policy

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the changes in child protection policy and practice in England over the last 30 years, in particular to critically analyse the nature and impact of the “refocusing” initiative of the mid-1990s. Design/methodology/approach Policy analysis. Findings While the period from the mid-1990s until 2008 can be seen to show how policy and practice attempted to build on a number of the central principles of the “refocusing” initiative, the period since 2008 has been very different. Following the huge social reaction to the death of Peter Connelly, policy and practice moved in directions quite contra to the “refocusing” initiative’s aims and aspirations such that we can identify a refocusing of “refocusing”. Such developments were given a major impetus with the election of the Coalition government in 2010 and have been reinforced further following the election of the Conservative government in May 2015. Originality/value The paper places the changes in child protection policy and practice in England in their political and economic contexts and makes explicit how the changes impact on the role and responsibilities of professionals, particularly social workers.

The Poverty-Aware Paradigm for Child Protection: A Critical Framework for Policy and Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1167-1184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuval Saar-Heiman ◽  
Anna Gupta
Keyword(s):  
British Journal ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Previous Issue ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Protection Policy ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
Child Protection Policy

Abstract This article aims to present a Poverty-Aware Paradigm for Child Protection (PAPCP). The increasing scholarly recognition of the damaging impact of poverty, inequality and the neoliberal politics of ‘risk’ on child protection policy and practice, has highlighted the need for a justice-based and poverty-aware analytical framework for child protection social work. In order to create such a framework, we build upon Krumer-Nevo’s Poverty-Aware Paradigm (PAP)—that was first presented in a previous issue of the British Journal of Social Work—and adapt its paradigmatic premises to the context of child protection social work. By addressing ontological, epistemological and axiological questions underpinning the construction of risk and the practices utilised to deal with it, the article provides a clear, practical and applicable link between critical theories and everyday child protection practice. The PAPCP is presented against the background of the risk-focused paradigm currently dominating the child protection systems in both the authors’ countries—Israel and England.

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