Child Protection Systems International Trends and Orientations

Name: Child Protection Systems
Author: Gilbert

Auteur: Gilbert

Taal: Engels

Schrijf een review

E-mail deze pagina

Auteur: Gilbert

Uitgever: Oxford University Press Inc

Engels
Hardcover
9780199793358
mei 2011
288 pagina's

Alle productspecificaties

Samenvatting

Child Protection Systems is a comparative study of the social policies and professional practices that frame societal responses to the problems of child maltreatment in ten countries: USA, Canada, England, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Norway. Focusing on the developments in policy and practice since the mid-1990s, this volume provides a detailed, up-to-date analysis of the similarities and differences in how child protection systems operate and their outcomes. The findings highlight the changing criteria that define child maltreatment, trends in out-of-home placement, professional responses to allegations of maltreatment, and the level of state responsibility for child and family welfare, providing an in-depth understanding of the different ways modern welfare states assume the sensitive responsibility of balancing children's rights and parents' rights.

The changing character of child protection systems worldwide reflects dramatic and rapid organizational, policy, and legislative changes; the expansion of child welfare systems; the rise of formal procedures and evidence-based initiatives; the increased challenges posed by race and ethnicity; and the extent to which countries adopt either a child protection or a family service approach to child abuse. Each chapter analyzes these developments and the directions in which they are heading, such as movements toward privatization and devolution of child welfare service delivery. Against this backdrop, a third approach begins to emerge-a child-focused orientation-that aims to promote and improve children's development and well-being.

A vital book for understanding contemporary trends and policy issues in the design of child protection systems, this will be must reading for comparative scholars of child welfare, family policy, and the welfare state.

Toon meer Toon minder

Recensie(s)

The book is well written, interesting, and important in presenting all these different patterns and trends in each country over the years. It would be welcome material in university and college teaching, but it also gives ideas for governmental actions towards developing practices. Furthermore, the discussion about methods in analysing connections between macro and micro levels may provide nourishment for further developing approaches and concepts in the field. * Nordic Social Work Research, Feb 2013 *