Contemporary developments in child protection. / Volume 1, : Policy changes and challenges / / Nigel Parton (Ed.)

• TeilnehmendeR: Parton, Nigel,; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : MDPI AG,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1 Edition 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 171 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: "Printed edition of the special issue Publish in Social Sciences"--Cover.; "This book is a reprint of the special issue that appeared in the online open access journal Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760) in 2014"--Copyright page.

Volume 1 "Policy Changes and Challenges" takes as its central theme the ongoing and challenging issues which child protection agencies have to address and the policy and practice initiatives that are developed to try and address these. The volume includes papers on: the relationship between the decline in the rate of 'unnatural' deaths and the growth of concern about child abuse in the USA between 1940 and 2005; mandatory reporting; the balance between providing urgent intervention and meeting chronic need; risk and the Public Law Outline in England; the nature and implications of 'child centred' policies; the impact of intimate partner and family violence; the intended and unintended consequences of high profile child abuse scandals; developing multi-disciplinary team work in a health setting; and the possibilities of technology-based innovations in prevention programmes.

Table of Contents

The Relationship between “Protection of” and “Violence Against” Infants and Young Children: The U.S. Experience, 1940-2005 / Jack E. Riggs and Gerald R. Hobbs -- Mandatory Reporting Laws and Identification of Child Abuse and Neglect: Consideration of Differential Maltreatment Types, and a Cross-Jurisdictional Analysis of Child Sexual Abuse Reports / Ben Mathews -- Urgent Protection versus Chronic Need: Clarifying the Dual Mandate of Child Welfare Services across Canada. Soc / Nico Trocmé, Alicia Kyte, Vandna Sinha and Barbara Fallon -- Time is of the Essence: Risk and the Public Law Outline, Judicial Discretion and the Determination of a Child’s Best Interests / Penelope Welbourne -- Developing Child-Centered Social Policies: When Professionalism Takes Over / Nicole Hennum --

The Voice of the Child in Child Protection: Whose Voice? / Margaret Bruce -- Concerted Practice-Based Actions in Intimate Partner and Family Violence: When the Children’s Well-Being Is the Central Concern / Geneviève Lessard, Marie-Eve Drouin, Anne-Sophie Germain, Pamela Alvarez-Lizotte and Pierre Turcotte -- Child Protection Victims and the “Evil Institutions” / Carolus van Nijnatten, Marit Hopman and Trudie Knijn -- Vulnerable Family Meetings: A Way of Promoting Team Working in GPs’ Everyday Responses to Child Maltreatment? / Jenny Woodman, Ruth Gilbert, Danya Glaser, Janice Allister and Marian Brandon -- Technology-Based Innovations in Child Maltreatment Prevention Programs: Examples from SafeCare® / Melissa Cowart-Osborne, Matthew Jackson, Elizabeth Chege, Evander Baker, Daniel Whitaker and Shannon Self-Brown.