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, February 20, 2011

Willful Blindness

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Margaret Heffernen's book Willful Blindness was published this past week. In it, there are lesson for those who work in and around child...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Interesting USA Data on foster care usage

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Childtrends databank has provided some new American data on foster care trends. They place the data in context helping us to see its importa...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Mental Disorders in Children

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When we talk about child protection issues, we see that there are high frequencies of mental disorders in children within that population. I...
Monday, February 7, 2011

The Child Welfare Master Narrative – Is it for real?

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Fraidin (2010) has recently published a review that looks at confidentiality laws and the master narrative of child welfare. He argues that...
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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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