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.

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.

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.

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.

Estonian child protection workers’ assessment perspectives: The need for competence and confidence

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karmen Toros ◽  
Michael C LaSala
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Further Training ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
Child Protection Workers ◽  
Welfare Work ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
Trusting Relationships

After years of Soviet occupation, the country of Estonia is in transition, as are their newly developed child protection services. This quantitative study examines Estonian child protection workers’ perspectives about child welfare work and assessment in the context of children in need. These findings indicate that workers seem to overly rely on a deficit-based, as opposed to a strengths-based approach and lack skills for understanding their role, conducting assessments and engaging in trusting relationships with children and families. These findings suggest a possible holdover from Soviet philosophies, but definitely indicate the need for further training.

Poverty is the problem – not parents: so tell me, child protection worker, how can you help?

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 207-214
Author(s):  
Kylie Bennett ◽  
Andrew Booth ◽  
Susan Gair ◽  
Rose Kibet ◽  
Ros Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Contextual Knowledge ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Child Protection Workers ◽  
Problematic Substance Use ◽  
Problematic Substance ◽  
Gender Based

AbstractFamilies who attract the attention of child protection services most often have ongoing lived experiences of poverty, gender-based domestic and family violence, problematic substance use and, sometimes, formally diagnosed mental health conditions. Without broader contextual knowledge and understanding, particularly regarding ongoing poverty, decision-making by child protection workers often leads to the removal of children, while the family’s material poverty and experiences of violence remain unaddressed. Case studies are a common tool to succinctly capture complex contexts. In this article, we make explicit, through case examples and analysis, how poverty is almost always the backdrop to the presence of worrying risk factors before and during child protection intervention. Further, we expose the existential poverty that parents live with after they lose their children into care and which invariably exacerbates material poverty. In the final section, we consider the multi-faceted organisational poverty that blights the work environment of child protection workers, and we suggest strategies for improved practice with families living in poverty.

scholarly journals Protection of Children in Difficulty in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Fang Zhao ◽  
Ning Zhu ◽  
Juha Hämäläinen
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
The Media ◽  
Professional Systems ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study investigated the resilience of the Chinese child protection system in responding to the special needs of children in difficulty under the specific circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study applied qualitative document analysis of child protection administrative documents, in-depth interviews with 13 child protection professionals, and an in-depth case study of 14 children living in difficulty, complemented by relevant information available in the media. The results indicate that there are good policies in China’s child protection services but the organizational and functional fragmentation complicates implementation, suggesting a need for the development of bottom-up practices. The essential conclusion supported by these results is that the child protection system should be regarded and developed as a systematic project combining the legal, policymaking, and professional systems of child welfare services as well as governmental and non-governmental forces. As the COVID-19 pandemic has raised awareness of the need to develop the field of child protection holistically as an integrated system in terms of social sustainability in China, an international literature-based comparison indicates that the pandemic has also raised similar political awareness in other countries.

Essence and Scope of Strengthening Community-Based Preventive Child Care and Protection Systems in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranjan Kanti Panda ◽  
Lopamudra Mullick ◽  
Subhadeep Adhikari ◽  
Neepa Basu ◽  
Archana Kumari
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
National Level ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Sectoral Development ◽  
Family Based

This article reflects different programmes and resource components that may be promoted to keep children with either their own family or within alternative family care, satisfying the rights of their overall development. In India, the concept of promoting family-based care mechanisms through government systems has not been fully realised, owing to lack of synergy between resource allocation and existing government programmes, policies and plans of action for child protection. Additionally, the common public discourse is that Child Care Institutions (CCIs) offer suitable care and protection for children outside the parental care. CCIs continue to be identified as the ultimate and the most common response for children at risk. This practice nullifies the scope to explore opportunities for the child to live with their family or in any alternative family care mechanisms. Child in Need Institute (CINI), 1 1 CINI is a national level development organization working on establishing child-friendly communities through its work on health, nutrition, child protection and education for the last forty-five years in India. partnering with Hope and Homes for Children, have analysed the vulnerability factors that led children to arrive at the selected CCIs in Ranchi and Khunti districts of Jharkhand in India. While working with children in the communities, CINI endeavoured to understand the drivers and vulnerabilities leading to family/child separation and what mechanisms could address the vulnerabilities at source and prevent separation. CINI promoted a participatory governance process with the involvement of community-level institutions along with children’s and women’s groups, incubating safe spaces for children that aided in identifying, tracking and promoting multi-sectoral development plans for children at risk. 

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