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Child protection in England
No full textChild Protection Systems is a comparative study of the social policies and professional practices that frame societal responses to the problems of child maltreatment in ten countries: USA, Canada, England, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Norway
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
Changing patterns of response and emerging orientations
No full textChild Protection Systems is a comparative study of the social policies and professional practices that frame societal responses to the problems of child maltreatment in ten countries: USA, Canada, England, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Norway
Introduction
No full textChapter 1 provides an introduction to the book. It briefly summarises the main findings of Combatting Child Abuse: International Perspectives and Trends (Gilbert, 1997) including the main dimensions of the child protection and family service orientations and their possible relationship with the different welfare state regimes identified by Esping-Anderson. In order to locate the analysis of the ten different countries child welfare systems within this broader context the chapter also analyzes the different levels of social expenditure on family policy from 1980 onwards drawing on a range of different OECD data. The data compares the individual levels of spending for each of the ten countries and the average rates of spending for the countries grouped within the welfare state typology.</p
Portrayals of Child Abuse Scandals in the Media in Australia and England: Impacts on Practice, Policy, and Systems
Full text linkThis article describes how the media have
played a key role in placing the issue
of child maltreatment and the problems
associated with child protection high on public
and political agendas over the last 50 years. It
also describes how the influence of the media
is far from unambiguous. Although the media
has been crucial in bringing the problems into
the open, it often does so in particular ways. In
being so concerned with scandals and tragedies
∗ Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Bob Lonne, School of Public Health and Social Work,
Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Queensland 4059, Australia. Electronic mail
may be sent to [email protected].
in a variety of institutionalized and community
settings, the media have portrayed the nature
of child maltreatment in ways which deflect
attention from many of its core characteristics
and causes. A focus on the media is important
because of the power the media have to help
transform the private into the public, but at the
same time, to undermine trust, reputation, and
legitimacy of the professionals working in the
field. This concern is key for those working in the child protection field and has been a source
of tension in public policy in both Australia and
England for many years
Book Review: Global Child Welfare and Well-Being Susan C. Mapp New York, Oxford University Press, 2011 ISBN 9780195339710
No full textThe ambitious aim of the author of this book is made clear from the opening
paragraph of the Introduction, in which she identified a whole range of different‘‘threats’’ and ‘‘barriers’’ that prevent children from reaching their full potential..
Book review : Child welfare, historical dimensions, contemporary debate. Author Harry Hendrick.
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Book review: A better world for children, explorations in morality and authority. Author, Michael King
No full textBook review: Being a client, understanding the process of counselling and psycho-therapy. Author David Howe
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