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Learning and change: Outcomes of inter-agency networking for child protection
Child Care in Practice, 1994Abstract The paper argues the crucial importance of local networking by middle-managers and senior professionals to the development of effective inter-agency work. It is suggested that the network provides a basis for learning both about critical issues in child protection practice and inter-professional collaboration, and that formal inter-agency ...
Tony McFarlane, Tony Morrison
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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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Implications of Media Scrutiny for a Child Protection Agency
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 2005This study examines media impact on job efficacy in a child protection agency. The research uses inductive, holistic research methods to examine the effect of media scrutiny on changes in management dictates, worker duties and responsibilities, and agency services.
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Learning Organisations and Child Protection Agencies: Post-Fordist techniques?
Studies in Continuing Education, 2002Reforms currently taking place in organisations and their implications for education, training and learning in these organisations requires new and different ways of understanding. The recent focus on workplace learning and notions of "the learning organisation" raise challenges to understanding their significance as "technologies of training" applied ...
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Relational agency and epistemic justice in initial child protection conferences
2021The chapter examines Initial Child Protection Conferences in two local authorities in England, focusing principally on the role of the chair. It applies the concepts of institutional talk, relational agency, and epistemic rights and (in)justice. It demonstrates that differences in the chair’s interactional approach is influenced more by institutional ...
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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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Client Agency in Child Protection Work in Estonia: Clients’ Perspectives
Child Indicators Research, 2022Tuuli-Brit Vaga, Dagmar Kutsar
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The Association of Korea Counseling Psychology Education Welfare
The purpose of this study is to gain an in-depth understanding of the experiences of counselors who provide counseling to child abusers. To achieve this, in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 counselors from child protection agencies, each with at least one year of experience in counseling child abusers.
Joo-Yeon SHIN +3 more
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The purpose of this study is to gain an in-depth understanding of the experiences of counselors who provide counseling to child abusers. To achieve this, in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 counselors from child protection agencies, each with at least one year of experience in counseling child abusers.
Joo-Yeon SHIN +3 more
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