scholarly journals Children’s quest for love and professional child protection work: the case of Norway.

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilie Basberg Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
Child Protection Workers ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
History Of ◽  
Professional Contexts ◽  
Professional Child

Central actors in the child protection field in Norway argue that children in public care should not only receive care and support, but also love. It is hard to disagree that children need love. However, there is reason to question the situation that may arise if children’s need for love is translated into requirements that must be safeguarded and handled by child protection workers in the child protection services. In this article, I analyse this ‘requirement of love’ both with regard to the increased focus on children’s rights in discussions on children’s life conditions and to the history of the professionalisation of social work; having the gendered features of social work and its partial professionalisation in mind. Due to the challenges this requirement represents, there may be good reasons to revisit the debates on care and care work among feminists who have theorised care as work within professional contexts. I try to show how the field of social work and child protection may utilise the critical potential in care feminist thinking by connecting it to their own emphasis on emotional awareness and knowledge of self as a prerequisite for professional child protection work.

scholarly journals Verdier og kommunikasjon i konfliktsituasjoner

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-87
Author(s):  
Halvor Nordby
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Theoretical Idea ◽  
Value Conflicts ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Child Protection Workers ◽  
Value Preferences ◽  
Professional Child

Good communication between child protection workers and families is crucial for cooperation and agreement about decisions regarding child care. This chapter focuses on challenges in this communication related to value conflicts – conflicts in which fundamental disagreement is grounded in opposing values. The chapter uses concepts from philosophy of mind and language to understand value conflicts in child protection services. The key theoretical idea is that beliefs and thoughts are different from value preferences. While beliefs and thoughts are mental representations that are true or false depending on how the world is, persons’ values are preferences directly related to activities or objects that are of fundamental importance to them. This means that telling others, explicitly or implicitly, that their values are false involves a categorical mistake and will typically be experienced as a form of value imperialism that undermines cooperation and aims of shared understanding in child protection work. Value preferences related to child care can nevertheless be explored and challenged in various ways, for instance by focusing on tensions between values, or on beliefs that values are grounded in. The chapter uses case studies to clarify these implications in professional child protection.

Child Protection and Risk-Management: The Death of Victoria Climbie

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHEENA JOHNSON ◽  
STEPHANIE PETRIE
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Space Shuttle ◽  
Child Death ◽  
Commercial Sector ◽  
Communication Failure ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
High Profile

This paper looks at the concepts of ‘risk’ and ‘safety culture’ within a Social Work context, specifically in relation to child protection. Discussion is made of the systemic and organisational issues that are apparent in many inquiries into child death from abuse, and the authors argue that these issues need to be given a higher profile to ensure avoidable tragedies do not occur as a result of organisational failure. The concept of ‘safety culture’ is described as a tool of best practice used by some organisations in the commercial sector to ensure their risk, for example communication failure, in relation to organisational issues is both understood and controlled. The parallels between an organisational breakdown resulting in a disaster and those relating to the breakdown of childcare services are outlined in relation to two high profile examples, the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster and the tragic death of Victoria Climbie respectively. The authors discuss how the lessons learnt from such disasters and the ways in which high risk commercial organisations give organisational issues such high priority can, and should be, successfully transferred into other sectors, namely Social Work and Child Protection services.

Victoria's Protective services and the ‘Interim’ Fogarty Report: Is This the Right Road at Last?

1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Goddard
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
History Of ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
The Right

The history of the provision of child protection services in Victoria, and the lack thereof, is a long and complex one. Yet another twist in the tale occurred recently.A report by Mr Justice Fogarty and Mrs Delys Sargeant, entitled Protective Services for Children in Victoria: An Interim Report, was released in January 1989. This report (hereinafter the Fogarty Report) was commissioned by the Victorian Government in August 1988:“… to inquire into and advise it upon the operation of Victoria's child protection system and on measures to improve its effectiveness and efficiency.”

scholarly journals Public Measures to Deal with the Negative Effects of Intra-EU Migration. Case Study: Suceava County, Romania

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Delia Cristina BALABAN ◽  
Viviana HUȚULEAC
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
County Council ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Media

"Abstract Romania is one of the EU member states reported to have a high rate of intra-EU migration. There is a temporary labor migration, but also Romanian migrants decide to leave their country for good. This phenomenon has a large economic, cultural, and social impact on society, with the northeastern region of Romania being especially affected. The main objectives of the present research are: (1) to analyze the social measures applied by the local authorities, especially the County Council and DGASPC (Social Work and Child Protection Services) Suceava to strengthen the ties with the diaspora, and to deal with the problem of the children with one or both parents working abroad, and (2) to determine how the local public authorities communicated on this issue. The applied research methods are document analysis, content analysis of the social media accounts of the above-mentioned institutions, and local media, as well as in-depth interviews that were conducted at the Suceava County Council and the Social Work and Child Protection Services. Our findings underlined that Suceava county has a defined strategy to deal with the negative effects of the labor migration phenomenon related to the phenomenon of the children left at home, there was a constant preoccupation during the analyzed period to communicate on this subject and even more, the local authorities took some measures to deal with this relevant issue. As both local authorities and local media acknowledged, more social measures are still needed."

Interacting With the Child Protection Service

2021 ◽  
pp. 90-119
Author(s):  
Heather Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Intergenerational Trauma ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
Child Protection Workers ◽  
Child Protection Service ◽  
Seeking Help

This chapter focuses on the women’s interaction with child protection workers and he child protection system in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV). Many women who have experienced IPV have contact with child protection services (CPS); some contact CPS seeking help, and others are investigated by CPS as a result of IPV and complaints made about their mothering. Three key themes are explored in this chapter. Women felt they were held to account by CPS workers for their ex-partner’s IPV. A number of women reported that their partners made malicious allegations to CPS about them, leading to lengthy and stressful investigations that resulted in no concerns being found about their mothering. Some women’s experiences highlighted the complex experience of IPV, intergenerational trauma, and CPS involvement.

Family Inclusive Child Protection Practice: The History of the Family Inclusion Network and Beyond

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Ainsworth ◽  
John Berger
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
New South ◽  
National Level ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Telephone Advice ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

This article records briefly the history of the Family Inclusion Network as an organisation that promotes family inclusive child protection practice. Since its inception in Queensland in 2006, Family Inclusion Network organisations have been formed elsewhere and now exist in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales. In 2010, developments at a national level saw the formation of the Family Inclusion Network Australia. Most organisations are incorporated and some have achieved charitable status. Each organisation endorses a common set of aims and objectives. There are, however, differences in terms of whether state or territory organisations accept government funding or not, are staffed by professionals or rely entirely on volunteer personnel, and have a capacity or otherwise to provide direct casework services to parents. Some state organisations focus on information and advice services, and legislative and policy reform efforts. All have telephone advice lines and a webpage presence. This article also focuses on a code of ethics for child protection practice and on the contribution parents can make to child protection services, and their rights to do so.

From minimal intervention to minimal support: Child protection services under the neo-liberal Kennett Government in Victoria 1992-1999

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Mandatory Reporting ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Inadequate Response ◽  
Minimal Intervention ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
Minimal Support ◽  
Child Protection Workers

This article examines the politics and ideology of Victorian child protection services during the Kennett years. The argument advanced is that the Kennett Liberal/National Party Coalition Government viewed child abuse in narrow, individualistic terms. In contrast to the previous Labor Government, which emphasized a philosophy of minimal intervention based on a partnership of family, community and the state, the Kennett philosophy was one of minimal support. The key emphasis was on the reporting of child abuse to statutory child protection authorities, and the treatment and punishment of individual offenders. Spending on broader structural prevention and support services which actually help the victims of abuse was not a priority.A number of examples of this neo-liberal agenda are given, including the poorly timed introduction of mandatory reporting and the associated diversion of resources from support services to investigation; the early cuts to accommodation and non-government support services; the inadequate response to demonstrated links between child abuse and poverty; the censorship of internal and external critics; and the appalling handling of the strike by child protection workers. Attention is focused primarily on the broader macro-political debates, rather than specific micro-service delivery issues.

scholarly journals Getting nowhere fast? Social work and its impact in the child, youth and family sector

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-136
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lehmann ◽  
Rachael Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Child Protection Workers ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
P 16 ◽  
First Time

I was recently challenged by a colleague to think about the sticky question of what social work, as a discipline, has achieved over the last 40–50 years. Being challenged about the efficacy of social work and the discipline's capacity for lasting impacts is hardly a new experience. Many social workers will have confronted the opinions of clients, managers, family members and the public about the contributions or otherwise that they perceive social workers to offer. I have had these experiences too, but there are particular times when such comments remain in one's memories. After the elapse of many years I do not claim to have total accuracy of recall, but perhaps the first time I was shaken by a challenge to my noble presumptions was when Dr John Paterson, Secretary of the Department of Health and Community Services, Victoria, spoke at a meeting of child protection workers around 1989–90. He declared that he thought a mature accountant could do as well in the role. As others have recalled, Dr Paterson ‘did not blush to ignore traditional codes on the role of public servants in the policy process and overtly sought to participate in normative statements about policy’ (Barraclough & Smith, 1994, p. 16). He was known for making offensive remarks. He described disability advocacy bodies as ‘piss and wind’ groups, denigrating them as people more interested in talk than getting their hands dirty delivering services (Milburn, 1993, p. 1). He precipitated great angst amongst public servants.

scholarly journals RESILIENCE IN CHILD WELFARE: A SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVE

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dermot J. Hurley ◽  
Lisa Martin ◽  
Rhonda Hallberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Child Protection Workers

This study explores the concept of resilience as it is applied in child welfare practice from the perspective of front line child protection workers (CPWs). Specifically it examines how CPWs understand the concept of resilience and how they see themselves nurturing resilience in children and families. The paper also explores how working with resilient clients helps foster resilience in CPWs through a process of vicarious or shared resilience. This study is part of a larger three-site study conducted in Canada, Ireland, and Argentina examining the concept of resilience within specific socio-cultural contexts of child protection practice.

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