Saturday, October 23, 2010

Australia - a horror story

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In what can only be described as a horror story, a northern territory in Australia has admitted virtual failure of its child protection syst...
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Intuition and child protection

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Duncan Helm, a British researcher, has just published Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment. While I have yet to receive a copy (it is...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Is child protection failing?

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In a 2006 study Naristela Zell looked at child welfare workers and their views on the system. The research took place in New York and Chicag...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Professor Munro offers her first view of her work on the UK child protection system

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Professor Munro was appointed by the UK government to review the child protection system and to consider ways to make it effective. There is...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

Serious Case Reviews in the UK

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The UK has just seen the publication of an overview of Serious Case Reviews for the period 2007-2009. Maybe only us academics will find it o...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Death Review themes get repeated way too often

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While the work of a Cleveland Ohio panel looking into a series of deaths in families is not yet done, their preliminary work is suggesting a...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Is Foster Care Better

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A sad reality in parts of the Western world is that foster care may not be better than the home that the children left. Group care has major...