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Policy review highlights challenges
- Author:
- SMITH Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Children Now, 10.05.06, 2006, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket
The Welsh Assembly Government has been praised for taking the unorthodox step of ordering a review into children's safeguarding completely unprompted. The author outlines the challenges and flaws that need to be corrected in the system.
Personalised budgets: What is the future for child protection?
- Authors:
- PLATH Debbie, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 51(7), 2021, pp.2458-2477.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
As the Australian state of New South Wales considers the adoption of a policy of personalised budgets in child protection, questions arise regarding how such a policy could take shape and how it would impact service delivery to promote safety and well-being amongst vulnerable children. This article presents findings from a mixed-method, realist evaluation of a pilot programme that adopted some of the features of personalised budgets, namely, personalisation, brokerage and keyworkers. Drawing on literature on personalised budgets in disability and aged care, the article highlights the features, potential benefits and challenges of personalised budgets in child protection. It concludes by arguing for a better understanding of how personalised budgets could benefit vulnerable children. This might involve: defining the roles of brokers and keyworkers, developing ways to increase service user engagement, clarifying implications for the wider service sector and planning for the provision of required supports and services for children and families. (Edited publisher abstract)
Out of routine: a review of sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) in families where the children are considered at risk of significant harm: briefing
- Author:
- NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
- Publisher:
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 5
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents findings from a review by The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel of 14 incidents of sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) from 12 local areas in England that were representative of the 40 SUDI cases reported to the Panel between June 2018 and August 2019. The briefing summarises the key learning and recommendations and outlines the key features of the local ‘prevent and protect’ practice model proposed by the Panel. Key features include: safeguarding partners, in conjunction with commissioners and other local providers, to incorporate action to reduce the risk of SUDI within a wider strategy to promote healthy pregnancy, good infant care and safety; multi-agency action to address pre-disposing risks of SUDI for all families, and with targeted support for families with identified additional needs; ensuring that safer sleep advice and risk assessment are joined up with wider considerations of safeguarding risk and plans to work with families to address safeguarding concerns; systems and processes that support effective multi-agency practice in working with families, particularly those at high risk of abuse or neglect. (Edited publisher abstract)
Preventing child sexual abuse using picture books: the effect of book character and message framing
- Authors:
- HUANG Sangruo, CUI Chen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 29(4), 2020, pp.448-467.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The aim of this study was to investigate whether and how a picture book preventing child sexual abuse can improve children’s self-protection skills. The study was conducted in China with Chinese children. In a 2 × 2 between-subjects design, character in the book (human versus animal) and message framing (gain versus loss) were manipulated. Compared to a baseline group who were not exposed to the prevention book, children in the experimental groups significantly enhanced their ability to recognize a potential abuse situation and refuse an inappropriate touch request. Results suggest that the prevention picture books are more effective when using a human character and a gain-framed message. The explanation for this was that human characters simulated children’s perceived norm and gain-framed messages increased children’s message recall, perceived self-efficacy and positive attitude toward the message, all of which in turn positively affected children’s self-protection skills. (Publisher abstract)
Ending domestic violence: SafeLives Insights national briefing
- Author:
- SAFELIVES
- Publisher:
- SafeLives
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing draws on Insights data collected between April 2014 and March 2017, to explore the experiences of children exposed to domestic abuse, and the involvement of children’s social services in these cases. Insights is a ‘whole family’ outcomes measurement programme specifically designed for specialist domestic abuse services supporting adults and children who have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse. The data reveals that two in five children (41%) in families where there is domestic abuse have been living with that abuse since they were born. For some children, this exposure to abuse does not only start early, but persists into later childhood. Of all the children in our dataset who had been living with abuse for their whole lives, over a third (37%) were more than five years old. The paper estimates that at the time they start school, at least one child in every class will have been living with domestic abuse since they were born. The paper makes a number of recommendations, including: ensuring that there is an effective referral pathway for children who are affected by domestic abuse, and that professionals who have concerns can access advise from a specialist; ensuring specialist training is available to practitioners working with children and young people in a variety of settings; and developing and testing interventions which focus on the perpetrator of abusive behaviour, including those who are parents. (Edited publisher abstract)
Beyond the risk paradigm in child protection: current debates and new directions
- Editor:
- CONNOLLY Marie
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 232
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
For decades, child protection systems have striven to provide responsive services to vulnerable children and families in the face of the constant change and instability caused by the bureaucratisation of child protection. This book lends a strident voice to the argument for a shift beyond the current risk paradigm, towards genuine cultural change. Topics covered include: risk as a major driver of professional practice; the risk paradigm and the media in child protection; predictive risk modelling as a signal of adversity; new knowledge in child protection – neuroscience and its impacts; disproportionality and risk decision-making in child protection; service users as receivers of risk-dominated practice; engaging families and managing risk in practice; assessment and decision making to improve outcomes in child protection; signs of safety as promising comprehensive approach for reorienting CPS organisations' work with children, families and their community supports; working differently with domestic violence; family risk and responsive regulation; responding differently to neglect – an ecological approach to prevention, assessment and treatment; positive leadership in child protection; and informal and formal support for vulnerable children and families. (Edited publisher abstract)
National panel of independent experts on serious case reviews: information for LSCBs and Chairs on how the panel will operate
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 5
- Place of publication:
- London
The role of the panel is set out in 'Working together to safeguard children' (2013). This Information for Local Safeguarding Children's Boards (LSCBs) outlines the operating guidelines for the national panel of independent experts on serious case reviews: the scope of the panel, the criteria for serious case reviews; publication of reports, which cases the LSCB Chair should inform the panel about; what information the LCSB chair should provide to the panel; how confidentiality of information will be preserved, how to contact the panel; turnaround time between panel meetings and panel advice; and attendance at panel meetings by LSCB Chairs. (Edited publisher abstract)
All in a day's work: no child should ever be forgotten
- Author:
- HOPE Becky
- Publisher:
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 336p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is the memoir of a frontline child protection professional; an affecting insight into a job that can prompt polarised responses. The author weaves together stories from her 20 years as a social worker. She describes the heartbreaking lives of the some of the defenceless children she has worked to protect and how, at times, she has had to risk her own safety to do this.
A job for volunteers?
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.7.10, 2010, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author reports on the Volunteers in Child Protection Project (ViCP), run by charity CSV, which is currently operating in four local authorities. In a short case study Southend-on-Sea Council explains why it uses the scheme and how it has helped one family to be signed off by social services.
Childhood denied: ending the nightmare of child abuse and neglect
- Authors:
- REARDON Kathleen Kelley, NOBLET Christopher T.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 231p.
- Place of publication:
- Los Angeles, CA
This book was written with the aim of advancing the advocacy of those who work with children to protect them from abuse and neglect. It is an exposé of how America treats its most vulnerable children; achieving this not by reviewing the research and the many writings on the subject but by highlighting some of the efforts that articulate the nature of the problem, why it continues and what needs to be done to make significant changes. Examining the political, legal, and social factors of children at risk for abuse and neglect, the authors chronicle the plight of abused children across the country and provide a "report card" for each U.S. state. They explore solutions to mitigate child abuse, such as legislative changes; quality of child protection services and foster care; training and education within the judicial system; and developing national standards. They draw a clear distinction between questionable parenting practices and situations where children’s lives and health are consistently in jeopardy. A strong call to action is employed to inspire readers to help end the cycle of abuse and neglect and address the core of the problem. The work was produced in collaboration with First Star, an organisation that offers a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary approach, and provides a catalyst for change. The book is aimed at child welfare professionals, policymakers, lawyers and law enforcers as well as social work, government, politics, and law students.