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The For Moray's Children Group inter-agency audit and review of child protection practice in relation to the framework for standards: summary extract report
- Author:
- THE MORAY COUNCIL
- Publisher:
- The Moray Council
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 63p.
- Place of publication:
- Elgin
The aim of this research was to examine the extent to which existing inter-agency child protection practice in Moray, (predicated upon the North East of Scotland Child Protection Committee Child Protection Guidelines), might be measured against proposed National Standards, being produced by the Scottish Executive, then in their 2nd draft. The National Standards were substantially revised in their structure; text and expression, and published as the Framework for Standards in March 2004. This summary extract of the full report presents the findings and recommendations arising from the For Moray's Children Group inter-Agency Audit and Review of Child Protection Practice in relation to the Framework for Standards and the North East of Scotland Child Protection Committee Child Protection Guidelines (NESCPC Guidelines).
Initial and significant case review protocol
- Author:
- NESCPC
- Publisher:
- North East of Scotland Child Protection Committee
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- Aberdeen
The Scottish Government has produced interim guidance for Child Protection Committees on how to conduct Significant Case Reviews. The NESCPC has adopted this guidance and will endeavour to meet the standards detailed within it. This document details how the Initial and Significant Case Review process will be implemented by the NESCPC. The Significant Case Review Portfolio group will review this Protocol annually.
Joint inspection of services to protect children and young people in the Western Isles Council area November 2007
- Author:
- HM INSPECTORATE OF EDUCATION
- Publisher:
- HM Inspectorate of Education
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- Livingston
The inspection of services to protect children in the Western Isles Council area took place in May 2007. It covered the range of services and staff working in the area who had a role in protecting children. These included services provided by health, police, local authority and Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA), as well as those provided by voluntary and independent organisations.
Training as a factor in policy implementation: lessons from a National Evaluation of Child Welfare Training
- Authors:
- COLLINS Mary Elizabeth, AMODEO Maryann, CLAY Cassandra
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 29(12), December 2007, pp.1487-1502.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Federal, state, and local governments in the United States spend substantial resources on training child welfare staff. Moreover, enhanced training is often proposed as a core solution to many problems facing public child welfare and other human service agencies. This paper conceptualizes training as an element of the policy implementation process. Data is used from a multiple case study evaluation of nine federally-funded training projects to examine training activity within a policy implementation framework. Findings indicate federal, state, county and organizational contexts were important in successful implementation; the projects were, for the most part, successfully implemented; training projects lacked explicit causal theory to link training activities to training outcomes; and elements of both top-down and bottom-up implementation frameworks were identified. Conclusions focus on the utility of training for enhancing policy implementation, as well as the need for greater theory development in this area.
A process review of the child protection reform programme
- Author:
- DANIEL Brigid
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive Social research
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 117p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
A process review of the Child Protection Reform Programme (CPRP)carried out by Dundee University’s Centre for Child Care and Protection and Barnardo’s Scotland Research and Development Team is presented. The aim of the study was to investigate how the CPRP was planned and implemented, the aims in planning the programme in this particular way, and whether or not the process was successful. The research included contextual studies, interviews with professional advisors, members of the Child Protection Steering Group, policy makers and stakeholders, two focus groups with members of Child Protection Committees (CPCs), drug and alcohol action teams and service leaders from social work, police and health, and analysis of 373 questionnaires with professionals.
Movement restriction conditions in the children’s hearings system
- Author:
- EVANS Alyson
- Publisher:
- Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
The Children’s Hearings System is the care and justice system for children in Scotland. Children are referred to the Children’s Reporter if there are concerns about their care, protection, behaviour or they are alleged to have committed an offence. The Reporter decides whether compulsory measures of care may be needed to protect the child and/or address their behaviour. In these cases, the child is referred to a Children’s Hearing which may make a Supervision Requirement. The power to include a Movement Restriction Condition (MRC) as a condition of a Supervision Requirement was introduced by the Antisocial Behaviour (Scotland) Act 2004. The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) carried out this research to learn more about the backgrounds of children who have received MRCs and the reasons for this, and to analyse the decision-making process within the Children’s Hearings System leading up to the MRC being made.
Children referred to the Reporter with a low level of offending
- Author:
- HANSON Lucy
- Publisher:
- Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
This research examines a group of children and young people who have been referred to the Children’s Reporter with a low level of offending. Low level offending is defined here as children who had been referred to the Reporter on offence grounds either once or twice. Two local authority areas were chosen for the study: East Dunbartonshire and North Lanarkshire and included children who were referred on offence grounds between 1 April 2003 and 31 March 2006. 2229 children were referred to the Reporter on offence grounds in the two areas over the three years. 71% were boys, 29% girls. An analysis of the social backgrounds of 100 of these children was also conducted.
Safeguarding children: everybody's business
- Authors:
- BARTLETT Wilma, (Author), DRAYCOTT Philip, (Director)
- Publisher:
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- DVD, CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- London
This resource provides detailed guidance to enable facilitators in organisations to provide their own basic awareness training for safeguarding children. The training is built around a series of video sequences and is based on supported group learning. It is suitable for a wide range of people, including volunteers, members of community organisations, support staff and newly qualified professional staff and experienced workers with a specialism other than child and family work in the statutory agencies. Reference is made to legislation and guidance in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Child welfare workplace: the state of the workforce and strategies to improve retention
- Authors:
- SCANNAPIECO Maria, CONNELL-CARRICK Kelli
- Journal article citation:
- Child Welfare Journal, 86(6), November 2007, pp.31-52.
- Publisher:
- Child Welfare League of America
Child welfare systems throughout the United States are being closely scrutinised as sensational cases appear in the media in nearly every state. At the federal level, with the Child and Family Service Review process, the government is documenting that states across the country are not conforming to federal child welfare requirements put in place to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children. One of the most crucial underlying causes of these inadequacies is a workforce that lacks the manpower for the tasks it confronts. To meet performance standards for the seven major Adoption and Safe Family Act child welfare safety outcomes, child protection agencies must stop the outward flow of staff from the workplace. This paper presents a study examining correlates related to retention. It was found supervisors and co-workers play a crucial role in the retention of workers. Strategies are presented aimed at assisting states in ways to slow the turnover rate of workers in child welfare.
Mental health problems among child welfare clients living at home
- Author:
- IVERSON Anette Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 13(4), October 2007, pp.387-399.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The great majority of children receiving intervention from child welfare and protection services (CWS) in Norway live at home. The purpose of this study was to assess mental health problems among these children. Data stem from a population-based study, the Bergen child study, conducted in 2006. Of a sample consisting of 4,162 children in the fifth to seventh grades, 82 children were CWS clients who lived at home. Compared with their peers, the CWS children had significantly higher scores on emotional problems, hyperactivity, conduct problems, peer problems, and total difficulties (child and parent reports on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire). The relationship between being a CWS client and total difficulties remained significant when socio-demographic variables were controlled for. Even though the results indicate that child welfare clients have more contact with child and adolescent mental health service than earlier assumed, the results emphasise the need for strong collaboration between CWS and mental health services and the need for CWS to include other types of interventions in addition to financial support.