Saturday, April 26, 2014

The impact of child abuse - greater than we might imagine

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It became one of those quick national stories that flips onto the front pages for a day and is then lost. But that surely should not be the...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

Aging out - or being dropped off?

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A recent editorial on  the US news network CNN  spoke about the degree to which youth in child protection care are becoming abandoned as th...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Adoption breakdowns

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New research in the United Kingdom is helping us to better understand what is most likely to lead to an adoption breakdown. These are tragi...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

The use of art for child sexual abuse investigations

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Imagine you are investigating allegations of sexual abuse. You want to gain as accurate a disclosure as possible, with as much detail while...
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Sibling Abuse as a Child Protection Issue

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I recall some years back a family that I and a colleague were working with. Child protection had become involved due to parental behaviours...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result? Insanity?

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You might well ask this question upon reading the new report from the Irish Ombudsman for Children, titled A meta-analysis of repetitive ro...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Why are changes made in child protection?

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I was intrigued by an article published recently in the journal, Australian Social Work. It asked the question - Driving child protection r...