Cooperation between the school, parents and educational day care centres in Paris

The article focuses on the cooperation between the school, parents and educational day care centres operating in the child protection system in Paris. It takes into account the way children and parents participate in this collaboration. In the range of services offered under the child protection system, day care centres are recognized as innovative due to the cross-sectoral nature of the support offered. The data was collected through two stages of interviews with parents and children. 23 children and young people aged 8 to 16 and 22 families participated in the study. Research interviews were also conducted with interdisciplinary teams and specialists involved in the collaboration. Documents on the situation of all 23 examined children were analysed. The presented study received positive opinions from the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of Paris Nanterre University. The study was funded by the National Observatory for Child Protection and the four associations participating in the study.

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Decision Making in Child and Family Social Work

10.1332/policypress/9781447354444.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Clive Diaz

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Social Workers ◽

Child Protection ◽

Protection System ◽

Senior Managers ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Parents And Children ◽

Children And Parents ◽

Selling Point ◽

New Research

This book presents new research on the extent to which parents and children participate in decision making when childcare social workers are involved and it considers two key meetings in depth: child protection conferences and child in care reviews. There is currently a great deal of interest in how social workers can work more effectively with families and in particular give children a voice. There is also considerable public and media interest in the child protection system, in particular relating to how children are safeguarded by social workers. This book will argue that unless we listen to (and act upon whenever possible) the views of children it is very difficult to safeguard and offer them an effective service. The unique selling point of the book will be that it is based on original solid empirical research following interviews with multiple stakeholders across two local authorities in England including children (n=75), parents (n=52), social workers (n=11, independent reviewing officers (n=8) and senior managers (n=7). This book will consider how 10 years of austerity has impacted on the child protection system and it will have a particular focus on how current practice leads to children and parents often feeling oppressed and excluded in decision making about their lives. The book promises to be authoritative and informed on issues on the ground and very relevant to both policy and practice.

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Participation of Children and Parents in the Swiss Child Protection System in the Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Social Sciences ◽

10.3390/socsci9080148 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (8) ◽

pp. 148

Author(s):

Aline Schoch ◽

Gaëlle Aeby ◽

Brigitte Müller ◽

Michelle Cottier ◽

Loretta Seglias ◽

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Keyword(s):

Child Protection ◽

Mutual Recognition ◽

Protection System ◽

The Past ◽

The People ◽

Parents And Children ◽

Children And Parents ◽

Effects On Children ◽

Insight Into ◽

Adult Protection

As in other European countries, the Swiss child protection system has gone through substantial changes in the course of the 20th century up to today. Increasingly, the needs as well as the participation of children and parents affected by child protection interventions have become a central concern. In Switzerland, critical debates around care-related detention of children and adults until 1981 have led to the launch of the National Research Program ‘Welfare and Coercion—Past, Present and Future’ (NRP 76), with the aim of understanding past and current welfare practices. This paper is based on our research project, which is part of this national program. We first discuss three overarching concepts—integrity, autonomy and participation—at the heart of a theoretical framework in order to understand the position of parents and children in child protection proceedings. Secondly, we critically analyze the historical and legal development of the child protection system in Switzerland and its effects on children and parents from 1912 until today. Thirdly, we give an insight into the current Swiss child protection system, with an investigation of hearings of parents and children conducted by the Child and Adult Protection Authorities (CAPA) based on participant observations. In particular, we show the importance of information exchanges and of signs of mutual recognition. Finally, in light of our findings, we discuss the interplay between socio-historical and legal developments in child protection and their consequences for the integrity, autonomy and participation of the people involved.

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Social workers’ views about children’s and parents’ competence in child protection decision-making

Journal of Social Work ◽

10.1177/1468017320940635 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 146801732094063 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Johanna Korpinen ◽

Tarja Pösö

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Social Workers ◽

Child Protection ◽

Service Users ◽

Parents And Children ◽

Children And Parents ◽

The Social ◽

Strength Based ◽

Professional Ethos ◽

Controversial Nature

Summary Competence is an essential part of any decision-making process. In child protection, it is challenged by the controversial nature of child removals and the vulnerable situations which children and parents experience therein. This article examines how and on what grounds social workers view parents and children to be competent to give their informed view in care order proceedings and what they do if doubts about competence arise. The analysis is based on 30 interviews with social workers in Finland. Findings The professional ethos and ethics of social work were embedded in the social workers’ descriptions of children’s and parents’ competence. The social workers were confident that the parents and children (of certain age) were competent to give their informed view about whether to consent to the care order proposal and the proposed substitute home. When they spoke about competence ascribed with hesitation, they described the vulnerability of service users, as well as their attitudes and withdrawal from contact. In the cases, social workers emphasized a strength-based view of children and parents and aimed to ‘talk more’ with them and to ‘give them more time’ to support their right to give an informed view. Applications Social vulnerability and competence should be explored reflectively in relation to decision-making in child protection. A better understanding of their interrelation makes social workers more competent to support the service users’ right to be included in decision-making. Critical awareness is needed to recognize when ‘more talk’ is not enough to realize children’s and parents’ rights.

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How parents and children view the system

Decision Making in Child and Family Social Work ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447354444.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 43-64

Author(s):

Clive Diaz

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Young People ◽

Social Workers ◽

Child Protection ◽

High Turnover ◽

Children And Young People ◽

Barriers And Enablers ◽

Parents And Children ◽

System P ◽

The Impact

This chapter considers children and parent’s perspectives of child protection conferences and whether they feel actively involved in decision making. It is based on interviews with 40 children and 52 parents in two local authorities whose children were subject to a child protection plan at the time. Most parents felt unsupported throughout the child protection process, reporting feelings of powerlessness, intimidation and fear. Parents reported that they found child protection conference particularly stigmatizing and oppressive and this led to them not trusting social workers and often other key agencies. A further interesting finding was that some parents felt sorry for their social workers and stated that they seemed stressed, clearly under too much pressure and often did not do what that said they could do. The chapter also considered young people’s views of social workers and what the barriers and enablers of good child protection practice are. This chapter highlights the high number of social workers young participants had; their relationships with their social worker and their perception of the child protection conference. The extent to which the young participants were aware of the impact of bureaucracy and high caseloads on the service they receive, coupled with the impact of the high turnover of social workers, was also examined. These factors impacted on how much the children and young people participated in the work that social workers were carrying out with them and the extent to which they trusted their social workers.

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Playing it safe? Opportunity is knocking!

Children Australia ◽

10.1017/cha.2013.41 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 5-8

Author(s):

Chris-Maree Sultmann

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Child Protection ◽

Protection System ◽

Risk Averse ◽

Children And Young People ◽

Protection Commission

Has child protection in Queensland suffered from a risk-averse approach? The recent Child Protection Commission of Inquiry found that a risk-averse culture was one contributing factor to systemic failure in the State’s child protection system. Somewhat paradoxically, such an approach to child protection work can bring its own risks for children and young people. This commentary considers this and asks us to consider what a less risk-averse approach might look like in practice.

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Child Day-Care Centres as Supervisory Authorities? The Control of the Measles Vaccination in Germany Burdens the Trust Relationship Between Centres, Parents and Children

Teachers – Being in Control or Being Controlled? - On Education. Journal for Research and Debate ◽

10.17899/on_ed.2020.8.7 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (8) ◽

Author(s):

Beate Heeg ◽

Thomas Strzalka ◽

Norbert Bender

Keyword(s):

Day Care ◽

Care Facility ◽

Local Health Authority ◽

Local Health ◽

Child Day Care ◽

Parents And Children ◽

Measles Vaccination ◽

Day Care Centres ◽

Educational Staff ◽

Relationship Of

In Germany there have been intense discussions about measles vaccination and, as a consequence, the “Law for the Protection against Measles and for Strengthening Vaccination Prevention (Measles Protection Act)” was passed. The Measles Protection Act has now been in force since 1 March 2020 and has far-reaching consequences for day-care centres for two reasons. First, children and staff in day-care centres must prove that they have been vaccinated against measles before being admitted to the centre. Second, day-care facilities are obliged to notify the local health authority if sufficient proof of measles vaccination is not provided for a child in the day-care facility. This shift in responsibility for the control of the vaccination status poses a great threat to the relationship of trust between parents and educational staff.

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The role of complex social services for the children from families at risk

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/20185101003 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 51 ◽

pp. 01003

Author(s):

Vide Gudzinskiene ◽

Rimvydas Augutavicius

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Social Services ◽

Child Protection ◽

Day Care ◽

Best Interests ◽

Social Risk ◽

Disadvantaged Children ◽

The Social ◽

Social Support Services ◽

Day Care Centres

The social assistance for social risk families in Lithuania is provided by child protection agencies, social welfare departments, family support and crisis centres, pedagogical-psychological services, care homes, various educational institutions and NGO's. One specific form of social support services for social risk families is called Children Day Care Centres (CDC), whose activities are based on a systematic set of measures designed to protect the social interests of children, to ensure social security and realize the basic needs. The aim of this research is to analyse the activities of CDC's in the context of helping to meet the needs of children at risk, who are also sometimes described in scientific literature as disadvantaged children. It is obvious that children growing within social risk families often do not have or have insufficient necessary skills-to communicate, to discover, to create. This significantly complicates the realization of needs of those children growing in families at risk or so called disadvantaged families. The social services in day care centres are organized for the best interests of such families. These institutions aim at giving the opportunities to meet the needs of children by creating the conditions to learn, create, spend their leisure time, and engage in a favourite activity.

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