The Columbus Pilot Project: Developing a Model for Cost- Outcome Analysis on Violence and Child Abuse Cases in the Family Court of Western Australia

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul T. Murphy ◽  
Lisbeth T. Pike
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Outcome Analysis ◽  
The Family

The Columbus Pilot in the Family Court of Western Australia: What the Parents Said

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-251
Author(s):  
Lisbeth T. Pike ◽  
Paul T. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Family Court ◽  
The Family

scholarly journals Acknowledging Children’s Voice and Participation in Family Courts: Criteria that Guide Western Australian Court Consultants

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Banham ◽  
Alfred Allan ◽  
Jennifer Bergman ◽  
Jasmin Jau
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Circuit Court ◽  
Regulatory Guidance ◽  
Family Courts ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Australian Family ◽  
The Family

The Australian family courts introduced Child Inclusive Conferencing after the country adopted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The legislation governing these conferences is minimalistic but the Family Court Consultants in the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit Court have well-developed and documented guidelines. The Family Court of Western Australia is, however, a separate entity and in the absence of regulatory guidelines its Family Consultants developed their own process and criteria. This model is unique, in Australia at least, because it has been organically developed by the practitioners providing the Child Inclusive Conferences with very little, if any, statutory and regulatory guidance. This model therefore serves as an example of how practitioners think child inclusive services should be offered. The model is, however, not documented and the aim of this study was to understand and document Family Consultants’ decision making regarding if and when they will conduct a Child Inclusive Conference in the Family Court of Western Australia. Ten Family Consultants were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. A thematic analysis was conducted on the transcripts of the interviews identifying 12 themes. Overall the data suggested that Family Consultants take into account a range of criteria and although they were very cognisant of the importance for the child to be engaged in decision making they noted specific challenges regarding how they could use Child Inclusive Conferencing to do this. These findings provide a basis for the development of regulations that ensure that Child Inclusive Conferences are used optimally to improve the inclusion of children in the family court procedures in Western Australia and potentially elsewhere. Further research is, however, necessary before such regulations can be finalised.

CHILD ABUSE: THE ROLE OF THE PHYSICIAN AND THE HOSPITAL

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-803
Author(s):  
Edmund N. Joyner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
New York State ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Medical Society ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
County Medical Society ◽  
The Family

We are attempting to do the job which our legislature mandated for public agencies. The legislature did not mandate the money to allow these agencies to effectively fulfill their responsibilities, nor were provisions made for a coordinating individual or agency to supervise and administer the procedures which were mandated. Until these deficiencies are corrected, the hospital must assume a much broader role in child abuse. The hospital is the logical agency which can immediately bridge the wide gap now existing in long-term protection and rehabilitation. That hospitals may be willing to step in and perform this function is suggested by the fact that as of June 1, 1971, 18 hospitals formed Child Abuse Committees at the request of the County Medical Society of New York. If under the present laws of New York state the hospitals are to take on this added burden–and we believe that they should–it is imperative that their work be given support and that recommendations of the hospitals' Child Abuse Committees carry great weight in the deliberations and decisions of the Bureau of Child Welfare and the Family Court.

PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF CHILD ABUSE ALLEGATIONS IN CUSTODY AND ACCESS DISPUTES IN THE FAMILY COURT

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thea Brown ◽  
Margarita Frederico ◽  
Lesley Hewitt ◽  
Rosemary Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Family Court ◽  
The Family ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Custody And Access
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