Child Protection Social Work

Hall, C., Mäkitalo, Å., Slembrouck S. & Doherty, P. (forthcoming 2012). Pursuing trust in child protection meetings: familiarization and informality. To appear in C. Candlin & J. Crichton (Eds.), Discourses of trust. Basingstoke: Palgrave Mac Millan.

by Åsa Mäkitalo

Co-authored with Christopher Hall, Stefaan Slembrouck and Paula Doherty

For Kids' Sake: A workforce development resource for family sensitive policy and practice in the Alcohol and Other Drugs sector

by Samantha Battams

Child wellbeing and protection concerns and the response of the alcohol and other drugs sector in Australia

by Samantha Battams

Social workers' perspectives on parental engagement when children are at risk in Romanian society (2012). Child and Family Social Work. Article first published online: 30 MAR 2012 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2012.00851.x

by Salomea Popoviciu

co-authored with D. Birle, I. Popoviciu & D. Bara

This paper presents the findings of a study that looked at social workers' perspectives on parental engagement in... more This paper presents the findings of a study that looked at social workers' perspectives on parental engagement in making the difficult choice of either taking the child into care or keeping the family together. The paper first explores the specific context of children at risk in Romanian society and explains that in this middle-income nation there is an absence of evidence-based risk assessment tools, which prompts social workers to use their own ‘common sense’ risk assessment indicators. The findings of this small-scale, non-representative study on several public non-voluntary child protection services in Romania suggest that social workers' perceptions of specific dimensions of parental engagement in non-voluntary child protection may influence service delivery decisions and outcomes.

Direct social work with disabled children: The experiences of a specialist team

by David Wilkins

Co-authored with Loren Goodman and Rhiannon Hooper

This article is a follow-on from the “Tools social workers can use to talk to children” (Shemmings et al, 2011) and... more This article is a follow-on from the “Tools social workers can use to talk to children” (Shemmings et al, 2011) and discusses how the tools can be used or adapted for use with disabled children.

Explaining the Factors that Affect Child Protective Service Caseworker’s Propensity to Leave Their Job

by Texas State PA Applied Research Projects

Guzman, Gabriel, "Explaining the Factors that Affect Child Protective Service Caseworker’s Propensity to Leave Their Job" (2007). Applied Research Projects, Texas State University-San Marcos. Paper 204.
http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/204

Tools social workers can use to talk to children

by David Wilkins

Co-authored with David Shemmings, Yvonne Shemmings, Yvalia Febrer, Alice Cook, Fran Feeley and Claire Denham.

Which techniques and resources should be in every social worker’s toolkit when doing direct work with children? more Which techniques and resources should be in every social worker’s toolkit when doing direct work with children?

The Munro Review highlighted that the only way to create a “child-centred” system was for social workers to have the time and the skill to undertake a great deal more direct work with children.

Direct work needs to done in the right setting and involves more than asking a child “how are things?” Sometimes they need different media – paint, clay, pen and paper, puppets, virtual reality – to make sense of their “wishes and feelings”.

This guide offers practical demonstrations of direct work methods each of which seeks to understand the mind of the child and the child’s world.

Household schooling and child labor decisions in rural Bangladesh

by M. Najeeb Shafiq

BME children subject to a child protection plan or who are looked after (2006-2010): An evaluation on behalf of Buckinghamshire County Council

by Jason Schaub

Disorganised attachment indicates child maltreatment: how is this link useful for child protection social workers?

by David Wilkins

Published in Journal of Social Work Practice, 2011

This paper examines the indicative link between disorganised attachment and child maltreatment in the context of child... more This paper examines the indicative link between disorganised attachment and child maltreatment in the context of child protection social work in England. Attachment researchers are showing an increasing interest in the concept of disorganised attachment but there is also a growing interest as to how child protection social workers can more reliably detect child maltreatment by developing their knowledge of disorganised attachment. This paper sets out to examine what is known about the link between disorganised attachment and child maltreatment and considers how the legal concept of ‘significant harm’ fits with this link. Reference is made to the Assessment of Disorganised Attachment and Maltreatment (ADAM) project, set up with the aim of educating child protection social workers in the use of disorganised attachment as an especially useful method of assessing whether a child is at risk of significant harm.

Research with young children affected by family violence: Proposing a robust research agenda

by Bree Akesson

Why is there such a shortage of research on the effects of
violence on young children? Drawing on her experience... more Why is there such a shortage of research on the effects of
violence on young children? Drawing on her experience of working in Israeli-occupied Palestine, Bree Akesson suggests some explanations and ideas for furthering the research agenda.

Beliefs in the necessity of corporal punishment of children and public perceptions of child physical abuse as a social problem

by Enrique Gracia

Child Abuse & Neglect, 32 (11), 1058-1062, 2008

Hackett, S. and Uprichard, E., (2007) Animal Abuse and Child Maltreatment, London: NSPCC.

by Emma Uprichard

The dominance of risk assessment in child protection: Is it risky?

by Christine Morley

2003. Social Work Review: Vol. 15, No. 1/2, pp33-36

Buchanan J & Corby B (2005) Drug Misuse and Safeguarding Children: A Multi agency Approach pp 163-179 in R Carnwell & J Buchanan ‘Effective Practice in Health & Social Care: A Partnership Approach’ Open University Press, Maidenhead

by Julian Buchanan

This chapter will: explore the social context in which ‘problem drug users’ and ‘inadequate parents’ are constructed;... more This chapter will: explore the social context in which ‘problem drug users’ and ‘inadequate parents’ are constructed; outline key issues and difficulties involved in working with problem drug users whose children are considered to be at risk of abuse or neglect; draw on research carried out with social workers, health visitors, drugs clinic workers and parents to examine the barriers of working together to assess children’s needs where parents misuse drugs; and  explore strategies for better partnership approaches.

Linguistic Ethnography and the Study of Welfare Institutions As a Flow of Social Practices: the Case of Residential Child Care Institutions As Paradoxical Institutions

by Manuel Palomares

In this article we review ways of understanding how social and welfare institutions achieve their goals and produce... more In this article we review ways of understanding how social and welfare institutions achieve their goals and produce their products, whether these are expected or not. We analyze mainstream approaches to study these institutions in Spain and in other parts of Europe. From this review, we argue in favor of an approach focused on the role of social practices as onstitutive
elements of institutional life and products. Our proposal focuses on one type of institution, residential child care institutions (RCCIs), to highlight how traditional limits between formally designed activities and informal practices may be problematized. The data comes from a brief linguistic ethnography, conducted in central Spain, in two RCCIs that focused on children’s everyday social practices in the institution. We argue that RCCIs may be characterized as ‘‘paradoxical institutions’’ due to what we call ‘‘paradoxical practices,’’ prototypical of these institutions. As part of this argument, we analyze and discuss the trajectory of a paradoxical practice by paying attention to the product it creates and develop a model to understand institutional functioning. Finally, we discuss how linguistic ethnography provides a valuable alternative to scrutinize the work of residential child care institutions and the role they play in children’s socialization.

(2005) Kicking and screaming my way back to life

by Dee Michell

First Published in "Emergence", a collection of "works that brings together the creativity of women survivors of childhood sexual abuse in a resource around the healing journey." Published by Central Northern Adelaide Health Service, 2005.

Drug Abuse and Parenting: The Impact on Young Children In the Social Care System In Northern Ireland

by Wendy Cousins