Child Protection Lessons

A look at the lessons that arise from child protection errors and other issues including those that arise from deaths of children involved in systems in the western world.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

The role of medication with foster children

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Research in the past has shown that mental health issues are a major concern with children in foster care. Given the circumstances that surr...
Sunday, January 2, 2011

Privatization

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We start 2011 off with a scary initiative in Nebraska - the privatization of child welfare. State social workers will have only initial resp...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

The Aboriginal lesson in child protection

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Two recent reports on child protection have highlighted the ongoing issue of Aborginal children in the child protection system in Canada. Th...
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Saturday, December 4, 2010

A New Review - Familiar Themes and some new ones

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Clark County in Las Vegas, Nevada has just released a significant review of its child protection system. It is well done and quite thorough ...
Friday, December 3, 2010

A quick note on privatization

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There are those who feel that privatizing child protection services may be the direction to go - balancing costs with outcomes. An experienc...

Safeguarding young people

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In July of this year, a comprehensive study on the needs of 11-17 year olds who are maltreated was published by Rees et al. The research has...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

The effect of a high profile death

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The case of Baby P in England continues to have a long term effect. While there is no question that Baby P's death was a horrible and n...
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