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Errors and mistakes in child protection: understandings and responsibilities
No full textThis chapter provide an overview and discussion of some of the key concepts and issues on errors and mistakes in child protection. It discuss different definitions on errors and mistakes and the most discussed approaches (including the plague approach; the person approach, the legal approach and the systems approach) together with the challenges of trying to avoid and deal with errors and mistakes in child protection. It demonstrate that a universally agreed definition of error and mistakes in child protection does not exist and that in fatal child protection cases are often seen as the result of errors and mistakes. The chapter discuss a central question in child protection which concerns the responsibility for errors and mistakes, how such responsibility is distributed and avoided, and how power relations both reflect and feed into such processes
Errors and Mistakes in Child Protection in Switzerland. A Missed Opportunity of Reflection?
No full textIn Switzerland, two lines of discourse in the field of errors and mistakes can be reconstructed: a historically oriented discourse on coercive child removals and placements in the 19th and 20th century, and a contemporary oriented discourse on fatal cases in child protection in the context of a new organization of child protection authorities. Both lines have in common that they have not (yet) led to an explicit debate on errors and mistakes in Switzerland. The chapter summarises how coercive child removals practiced until the mid-20th century have led to harm, injustice, and suffering for many children and their families. It describes how a historical appraisal of these experiences led to a Federal Act entitling survivors to reparation payments. The chapter further depicts the discourses preceding a reform of the legislation on child and adult protection in the Swiss Civil Code in 2013. The new legislation aimed at professionalising child protection proceedings and decision-making, and included a pivotal shift from lay to professional decision-making bodies. The current state of this process, which has led to criticism on the part of politicians, the public, and the media with regard to negative or fatal outcomes of child protection cases, is analysed and discussed. Strategies for avoiding and dealing with errors and mistakes are described. Using this background, the need for an explicit discourse on errors and mistakes in child protection in Switzerland is outline
Errors and mistakes in child protection: an introduction
No full textThis chapter outline the thinking behind and rationale for the book on errros and mistakes in child protection, the key questions to be addressed and how the book is organised. It argue that errors and mistakes in child protection are an important issue in different countries across Europe, Scandinavia and North America. They attract public interest, media debates and influence changes in policy and practice. Such developments open up a number of important questions including: What are the impacts of errors and mistakes in child protection? What sorts of discourses inform the way errors and mistakes are understood and the way they are responded to? Are certain strategies seen as helpful in reducing errors and mistakes? The book analyses the developments in policy and practice in response to errors and mistakes in child protection in different countries. Chapters will cover the historical and political background of discourses on errors and mistakes in different countries and will show how errors and mistakes are constructed differently in different political and social contexts and have both similar and different impacts. The book demonstrate that what is understood as errors and mistakes varies both over time and across different jurisdictions. The chapter provide both the framework for the way the book is organized and will briefly introduce the contents of the different chapters
Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Sozialen Arbeit im Umgang mit digitalen Kindeswohlgefährdungen
No full textErrors and mistakes in child protection in Switzerland: a missed opportunity of reflection?
No full textIn Switzerland, two lines of discourse can be reconstructed in the field of errors and mistakes: a historically oriented discourse on coercive child removals and placements in the 19th and 20th century, and a contemporary oriented discourse on fatal cases in child protection in the context of a new organization of child protection authorities. Both lines have in common that they have not (yet) led to an explicit debate on errors and mistakes in Switzerland. The chapter begins with a short introduction to the Swiss child protection system and summarises how coercive child removals practiced until the mid-20th century have led to harm, injustice, and suffering for many children and their families. It describes how a historical appraisal of these experiences led to a debate on abusive practices under the cover of child protection, which prompted a Federal Act entitling survivors to reparation payments. The chapter further depicts the discourses and developments preceding a reform of the legislation on child and adult protection in the Swiss Civil Code in 2013. The new legislation aimed at professionalising child protection proceedings and decision-making, and included a pivotal shift from lay to professional decision-making bodies. The current state of this process, which has led to criticism on the part of politicians, the public, and the media particularly with regard to negative or fatal outcomes of child protection cases, is analysed and discussed. Strategies for avoiding and dealing with errors and mistakes are described. Using this background, the need for an explicit discourse on errors and mistakes in child protection in Switzerland is outlined
The Child’s best Interests und die Frage der Rückplatzierung aus Kinder- und Jugendheimen. Eine qualitative Untersuchung zu Rückplatzierungsfragen und Rückplatzierungsprozessen
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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