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How Effective Are Ireland's Monitory Mechanisms in Improving Its Child Protection and Welfare Services?

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection and welfare systems are entrusted with significant power by governments and are therefore a significant focus of monitoring activities. Monitoring can help to build a better child protection system and to ensure child safety; track policy and legislative implementation and resource allocation; contribute to preventing systemic
Kenneth Burns   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Talk to Us, Not About Us’: Children's Understandings and Experiences of Participation in Australian Family Law

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A hive of recent policy and legislative activity in Australian family law has emphasized the importance of children's right to participate in decision‐making following parental separation. Yet a powerful tension persists between supporting children's right to participation and protecting children from parental conflict.
Georgina Dimopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Children's Voices and Feedback Mechanisms in Family Justice

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When parents separate in Australia and in many other jurisdictions, most settle the parenting arrangements for their children between themselves or with the assistance of mediation or other dispute resolution processes. These processes may or may not take much account of children's views.
Judith Cashmore
wiley   +1 more source

Disability, Pregnancy, and Child Protective Services: Experiences of Birthing People in Ontario, Canada

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We explored disabled birthing parents' fear of, and involvement with, child protective services in the perinatal period, including how such experiences impacted their prenatal, birth, and postpartum care. Birthing parents with a physical, sensory, and/or intellectual or developmental disability were recruited in Ontario, Canada, and completed ...
Claire Grant   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Care Providers of Indigenous Children and Youth in the Child Welfare System: A Scoping Review

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indigenous children continue to be significantly over‐represented in child welfare systems in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. This scoping review represents a subset of a larger review, the objective of which was to consolidate the extant literature on Indigenous child welfare.
Amanda R. Ervin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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