Children Living with Domestic Violence

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Mullender
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
Child Survivors ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Impact

Until very recently social work and other child care agencies in Britain have paid little, if any, attention to the impact of domestic violence on children. Audrey Mullender — a pioneer of research in this field — argues the need for a radical improvement in agencies' response to domestic violence, based on a general raising of sensitivity and awareness at both worker and agency level. Among the specific areas for development suggested are an emphasis on safety planning with women and children, the need for better links between women's services such as Women's Aid, and child care and child protection agencies, and the promotion of positive and healing work with child survivors of living with abuse.

scholarly journals Social work with offenders

Social Work ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 173-190
Author(s):  
Terry Bamford
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Monitoring And Surveillance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Preparatory Work

It is often assumed that child care legislation is a response to scandals and inquiries from the 1948 Children Act to the Children Act 2004. This chapter looks in detail at the preparatory work preceding legislation and demonstrates that the impact of scandals has been greater on securing parliamentary time than it has in shaping legislation. The impact has been greatest on social work practice. Attention and activity have been skewed away from direct work to provide assistance and help towards risk assessment and risk management. There has been a consequent emphasis on the monitoring and surveillance of families and individuals. This shift is true in mental health as well as child care. It is timely to consider whether this shift in practice has made children and families safer.

Domestic violence and child protection: issues in safety planning

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 282-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fran Waugh ◽  
Michelle Bonner
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Safety Planning

For the sake of the children? Children, domestic violence and public policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Suellen Murray ◽  
Anastasia Powell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Specialist Services ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Discursive Constructions

More attention than ever before is being paid to children in Australian public policy concerned with domestic violence. In family law and in the areas of child protection, policing and in the provision of specialist services, there is recognition that children are affected by domestic violence. Yet the ‘discovery’ of the impact of domestic violence on children and the development of public policy responses have not been straightforward processes of problem identification and solution. Rather, there are a number of competing discourses which underlie various policy approaches. Drawing on Bacchi’s (1999) ‘what’s the problem represented to be?’ approach, we examine the discursive constructions of children’s experiences of domestic violence and the responses to them as evident in Australian public policy. In identifying these particular understandings, and considering the implications of these meanings for current policy and practice, we aim to contribute to debate on the future direction of domestic violence policy concerned with children.

scholarly journals Information System For Web Based-Report Household Violence In Denpasar

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Yoga Divayana ◽  
Linawati Linawati ◽  
N.M.A.E.D. Wirastuti ◽  
Luh Ika Dhivtyasari Suryani
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Collection System ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Data Collection System ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Verification Process

Domestic violence is the most common case in the community. Women and children are victims of domestic violence. In Denpasar, Indonesia, currently, data collection system of victims of domestic violence (KDRT) is conducted by the Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Agency. It is still has some limitations because it is operating manually. Through this web-based data collection system of domestic violence, a complaint report on domestic violence can be done digitally so it does not need to report manually to the authorities. In this system, the victims will be given freedom to show or hide their identity. This system receives input filled form of violent reports; next, the complaints report can be known by others (not admin) anonymously. After the complaint report get into in the system, it will be done the next process which is verification. The results of the verification process will determine the validity of complaint reports. After passing the verification process, report data will be recorded in the system and will be done the formulation of follow-up to the action of the case by the legislation authorities.

scholarly journals Family support and child protection approaches. Historicising perspectives on contemporary discourses of social work

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tessa Verhallen ◽  
Christopher J Hall ◽  
Stef Slembrouck
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Work Outcomes ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the impact of two prevailing and seemingly opposed ideologies in child welfare in Western societies over the last century (‘family support’ and ‘child protection’) on social work practice. It scrutinises social work practice in two cases of Dutch-Curaçaoan single-mother families experiencing multiple problems. An ethnographic approach was chosen to study the two families in depth. It shows that, although the cases share many characteristics and circumstances, the social work outcomes diverge. This suggests there is a thin dividing line between support and protection. We argue that the interrelationships between the two base categories and social work practice can be better understood through a historicizing conceptualization of discourses. We suggest that an ethnographic enquiry is suitable for grasping the processual dimensions of social work practice with families as it leads to a more in-depth understanding of, paraphrasing Foucault: the historical interweaving of relations of discourse, of power, of everyday life and of truth.

scholarly journals Five years after Carmody: practitioners’ views of changes, challenges and research in child protection

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (03) ◽  
pp. 146-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ines Zuchowski
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Trauma Informed Practice ◽  
Difficult Area

AbstractChild protection work is a complex and difficult area of practice, one that is closely scrutinised and criticised, and impacts on the lives of many children. In Australia, child protection systems are overloaded, and increasing numbers of children and families receive child protection interventions each year. This study explored the views of North Queensland practitioners who work in the child protection field, examining changes and challenges in this field of practice, and their suggestions for the future research that is needed in child protection. The study took place 5 years after the 2013 Queensland Carmody inquiry into child protection intervention, which recommended sweeping changes to the child protection system. Twenty-two practitioners participated in this study. Respondents reported an increase in the complexity of cases, a gap in legislation change/practice frameworks and practice, and the application of trauma-informed practice. They highlighted the intersection of child protection, domestic violence and family law and observed that women and children continue to be exposed to violence because of Family Law Court orders. Respondents identified a number of areas where research is needed.

Child Abuse and the Bureaucratisation of Social Work

1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Howe
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Public Issue ◽  
Welfare Agencies

Child abuse became a public issue in the early 1970s. The alleged failure of social workers and welfare agencies to prevent children being killed by their parents and caretakers led to changes in the practice and organisation in child abuse work. The way public inquiries and government departments framed the problem of child abuse produced solutions which were essentially legalistic and bureaucratic. No longer was the aim to rehabilitate poorly functioning families, but to protect children from dangerous parents. But in order to achieve this aim, it was first necessary to identify the factors that would allow child protection agencies to recognise which families were dangerous and which were not. Once these factors were identified, it was possible to develop administrative systems that would facilitate the collection and analysis of information obtained during the investigation of suspected families. These systems allowed welfare agencies to identify ‘high risk’ cases. During the translation of the problem of child abuse into a set of judicial and bureaucratic procedures, therapeutically orientated professional practices found themselves out-manoeuvered. The translation witnessed the production of social workers as ‘passive agents’, a new cognitive perspective on the problem of child abuse, and a contribution to the bureaucratisation of child care practice.

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