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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)
Children at risk from domestic violence
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.4.09, 2009, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Social workers and a former service users offer advice on a case involving a father's violence against his wife and its traumatic effects on their children.
How to safeguard children and young people
- Author:
- PRYSE Steven
- Publisher:
- National Children's Bureau
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This How To guide offers a practical introduction to safeguarding children and young people. Along with guidance on how to ensure they remain safe in different situations, it also provides basic information on creating a safeguarding policy.
What criteria do child protective services investigators use so substantiate exposure to domestic violence?
- Author:
- COOHEY Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Child Welfare Journal, 86(1), July 2007, pp.93-122.
- Publisher:
- Child Welfare League of America
This study aimed to determine whether and how investigators use a recognisable set of criteria to substantiate batterers and victims of battering for exposing their children to domestic violence as a basis for developing and refining decision making criteria. The study also aimed to determine how often investigators attribute responsibility to the victims of battering instead of the batterers and remove children from the homes of victims of battering because they believe the adult victims cannot protect their children from being exposed to future domestic violence. The author defines exposure to domestic violence and failure to protect from domestic violence. Next, several criteria are described that could be used by investigators to substantiate batterers and victims of battering for exposing children to violence.
Safe...and sound?
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, August 2007, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
UNICEF feel the UK are behind in child well-being but acknowledges successes in keeping young people safe from harm. But has accident prevention been achieved by reducing opportunities for creative play? The governments recent consultation exercise 'Staying safe' considers this balance. In the article four children's social work professionals also give their views about the balance between risk and freedom.
Dependence and independence: perceptions and management of risk in respect of children aged 12-16 in families with working parents
- Authors:
- LEWIS Jane, SARRE Sophie, BURTON Jennifer
- Journal article citation:
- Community Work and Family, 10(1), February 2007, pp.75-92.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The contributions that adult men and women make to households in terms of paid and unpaid work have undergone substantial change, particularly in respect of women's responsibility for income generation, and have been seen as part of the processes of individualization. Recent contributions to the literature have suggested that children are now acquiring independence earlier as part of those same processes. The paper uses qualitative methods to explore the way in which parents in two-parent families, where both are employed, perceive the risks attached to children's exercise of greater independence, how they seek to ‘manage’ those risks and how far the perceptions of parents accord with those of children. The authors find parents’ perceptions of risk to be strong, but to have little to do with working patterns. In addition, they are often at odds with the actual behaviour of the child. Risks are managed by negotiation, in which children played an active part. The authors are also able to make some preliminary comments on the difficulties of interpreting scale measures in relation to interview evidence.
Protective and compensatory factors mitigating the influence of deviant friends on delinquent behaviours during early adolescence
- Authors:
- FERGUSSON David M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adolescence, 30(1), February 2007, pp.33-50.
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
This study examined factors that could moderate or compensate the link between exposure to deviant friends and delinquent behaviours in a sample of 265 early adolescents. The putative moderating or compensatory factors referred to the behavioural domain (i.e. novelty seeking, harm avoidance), the biological domain (i.e. physical maturation), the sociofamily domain (i.e. sociofamily adversity, parental practices), the school domain (i.e. academic performance), and the social domain (i.e. peer acceptance). A series of regression analyses showed that novelty seeking and puberty status moderated the link between friends' self-reported delinquency and participants' self-reported delinquency. In addition, all the factors except peer acceptance also had main effects that, cumulatively, reduced the association between friends' delinquency and self-rated delinquency through compensatory main effects. These results are discussed in light of the differential roles of moderating and of compensatory factors.
Risk, resilience and outdoor programmes for at-risk children
- Authors:
- UNGAR Michael, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 5(3), December 2005, pp.319-338.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The authors explore a continuum of interventions that offer at-risk children and youth experience in outdoor wilderness environments. Though these experiences are thought to enhance the well-being of participants, the mechanisms by which programming in natural environments promotes health have been poorly understood. In this article we discuss different types of outdoor programmes in which social workers and allied professionals participate, linking programme goals and outcomes to research on mitigating risk and promoting resilience in at-risk populations. Findings are based on qualitative data gathered as part of regular programme evaluations and a separate study of 14 participants’ reactions to programming. Results show favourable outcomes in terms of relationship building and a sense of spirituality and purpose, though there was little increased awareness of environmental issues. Follow-up and support after programming helped to reinforce changes made during the outdoor experience. These case studies, combined with a review of the literature, provide the basis for a theoretically sound approach to understanding the health-enhancing mechanisms that operate through outdoor experience-based education and treatment. Similarities between the gains made in well-being and resilience are highlighted.
Fear of the unknown
- Author:
- LEE Francis
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.6.94 Supplement, 1994, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Not all sexual abuse presents a risk of HIV infection, yet professionals are having to deal with requests for tests. Outlines Barnardo's recommendations for approaching this and explores the trust that needs to be established between the child and counsellor.
Finkelhor's risk factor checklist: a cross-validation study
- Authors:
- BERGNER Raymond M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 18(4), April 1994, pp.331-340.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Re-examines Finkelhor's Risk Factor Checklist factors as predictors of childhood sexual abuse. Results indicate (a) that subjects reported a relatively high incidence, 24.3%, of childhood sexual abuse; and (b) that the eight factors comprising the Risk Factor Checklist, employed individually and collectively, did not strongly and significantly predict sexual victimization. Only one factor, low family income, proved predictive, while three other showed trends in the predicted direction.