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Child and Family Social Work, 2017 © 2015 Commonwealth of Australia. Child and Family Social Work © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Child abuse commonly occurs within the context of multiple risk factors, in particular parental mental health and/or drug and alcohol problems.
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Responding to Child Maltreatment: a Framework for Mapping Child Protection Agencies
Child Indicators Research, 2015While 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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Suggestions for Improving Interviews in Child Protection Agencies
Child Maltreatment, 1996This 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,
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Professional and Agency Liability for Negligence in Child Protection
Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1983Suits 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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The Function of Child Protection Agencies in Upholding and Defending Children's Rights
International Journal of Humanities, Law, and Politics, 2023The five pillars of parents, family, community, government, regional government, and the state are all strongly tied to child safety. The five of them are connected to one another as child protection organisers. All actions taken to ensure that children are treated fairly, have their rights upheld, are able to live, develop, and participate in society ...
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Children’s Agency in Child Protection Interventions
2018Within 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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The decision to investigate: Child protection practice in 12 local agencies
Children and Youth Services Review, 1995Abstract 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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Policy priorities in child protection: Perception of risk and agency strategy
Policy Studies, 1997Abstract 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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The influence of differential response on decision-making in child protective service agencies
Child Abuse & Neglect, 2015Differential response (DR) profoundly changes the decision pathways of public child welfare systems, yet little is known about how DR shapes the experiences of children whose reports receive an investigation rather than an alternate response. Using data from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), this study examined the relationship
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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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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 ...
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