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Child protection agencies collaborating with grass-root community organizations: partnership or tokenism?

Journal of Public Child Welfare, 2021
Cross-sector collaborations are increasingly being relied upon to improve accessibility of prevention and support services for marginalized communities reported to the child protection system.
Alicia Boatswain-Kyte   +3 more
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Suggestions for Improving Interviews in Child Protection Agencies

Child Maltreatment, 1996
This article identifies difficulties that can arise during sexual abuse interviews in child protection agencies. Practical recommendations are offered to interviewers, trainers, and child protection administrators. The authors suggest ways to improve the interview process and the interview environment, emphasizing the need to improve rapport building,
James M. Wood   +2 more
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Responding to Child Maltreatment: a Framework for Mapping Child Protection Agencies

Child Indicators Research, 2015
While there is a growing number of international population surveys about rates of child maltreatment there is much less data on legal, health and social services responses to maltreatment. Agency surveys are a cost effective method for assessing this response in countries where there is limited administrative data available about child maltreatment ...
Nico Trocmé, Bree Akesson, Andreas Jud
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A longitudinal jurisdictional study of Black children reported to child protection services in Quebec, Canada

, 2020
Empirical research is needed to better understand the overrepresentation faced by Black children receiving child protection services in Canada. This article examines rates of disparity using secondary longitudinal clinical-administrative data provided by
Alicia Boatswain-Kyte   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Professional and Agency Liability for Negligence in Child Protection

Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1983
Suits for negligence in the area of child protection have become frequent as reporting of child abuse and neglect has increased. This article begins with various theories and defenses raised in specific cases, and briefly examines the problem of inadequate legal representation for the child. An additional section notes various policy issues for lawyers
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Children’s Agency in Child Protection Interventions

2018
Within this chapter I analyses the typology of participation presented in chapter four in more depth. The focus is on children’s agency within child protection interventions; that is, their capacity to act with autonomy and independence. The problem of children’s agency is probably the most significant contemporary issue in the study of childhood, but ...
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Comparing child protective investigation performance between law enforcement agencies and child welfare agencies.

Child welfare, 2011
This study examines the comparative effectiveness of using law enforcement agencies for child protective investigation (CPI), in contrast with the traditional approach of CPI conducted by the public child welfare agency. The analysis uses 2006-2007 data from a natural experiment conducted in Florida to show modest differences in performance and cost ...
Jordan, Neil   +5 more
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The decision to investigate: Child protection practice in 12 local agencies

Children and Youth Services Review, 1995
Abstract This study examined child protective service (CPS) screening practices in twelve sites from five states, and sought to identify factors predictive of the decision to investigate a report. The authors found that few contacts with CPS agencies were determined clearly inappropriate for CPS investigation; 70% of the reports entailed specific ...
Susan J. Wells   +2 more
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Increasing child protection workforce retention through promoting a relational-reflective framework for resilience.

International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect, 2019
BACKGROUND A deficit-oriented discourse dominates child protection workforce research with worker distress including burnout and vicarious trauma predominating.
Eric U. Russ, Bob Lonne, D. Lynch
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Policy priorities in child protection: Perception of risk and agency strategy

Policy Studies, 1997
Abstract A growing consensus among researchers and practitioners that the current emphasis on identification and investigation of child abuse may be counter‐productive has been slow to produce changes at the policy level. Using the operation of interagency Area Child Protection Committees as an example, this paper suggests that professional and ...
Robert Sanders   +2 more
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