183 TEN The capability approach: what can it offer child protection policy and practice in England? Brid Featherstone and Anna Gupta Introduction The capability approach (CA) has been used to assess individual wellbeing and the evaluation of social arrangements, and to develop policies and practices to effect social change. In recent years, the CA has gained attention and influence in a broad number of public policy areas and across academic disciplines. This chapter explores child protection policy and practice in England, an area of social policy that
147 TEN now you see them – now you don’t: institutions in child protection policy Tuija Eronen, Riitta Laakso and Tarja Pösö long history notwithstanding In Finland, residential institutions for children began to be separated from those for adults at the end of the 19th century and their number began to grow. Gradually they acquired a strong, though by no means uncontested, position in Finnish society and child protection. Institutions began to dominate social welfare in general. From the 1960s onwards, however, it was increasingly criticised for being too
461 Key words evidence-informed policy • research into policy • child welfare • family welfare © The Policy Press • 2010 • ISSN 1744 2648 re se ar ch Evidence & Policy • vol 6 • no 4 • 2010 • 461-82 • 10.1332/174426410X535855 The role of research in child protection policy reform: a case study of South Australia Kerry Lewig, Dorothy Scott, Prue Holzer, Fiona Arney, Cathy Humphreys and Leah Bromfield Governments across Australia are struggling to address escalating child protection notifications, increasing numbers of children in state care, decreasing numbers
155 Children growing up in the proximity of violence TEN Neglected issues in Swedish child protection policy and practice: age, ethnicity and gender Keith Pringle The creation of the welfare state in Sweden as an idea (in the 1930s/ 1940s) and then as practice since the 1950s has undoubtedly been a huge achievement. It is remarkable that a country with a relatively small population and only recent industrialisation could create one of the most comprehensive welfare systems in the world. However, Sweden’s welfare system is not, and never was, paradise (Pringle
The state is increasingly experienced as both intrusive and neglectful, particularly by those living in poverty, leading to loss of trust and widespread feelings of alienation and disconnection.
Against this tense background, this innovative book argues that child protection policies and practices have become part of the problem, rather than ensuring children’s well-being and safety.
Building on the ideas in the best-selling Re-imagining child protection and drawing together a wide range of social theorists and disciplines, the book:
• Challenges existing notions of child protection, revealing their limits;
• Ensures that the harms children and families experience are explored in a way that acknowledges the social and economic contexts in which they live;
• Explains how the protective capacities within families and communities can be mobilised and practices of co-production adopted;
• Places ethics and human rights at the centre of everyday conversations and practices.
309 Policy & Politics vol 39 no 3 • 309-24 (2011) • 10.1332/030557310X520306 © The Policy Press, 2011 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: child protection policy • Catholic Church The child abuse crisis in the Catholic Church: international, national and personal policy aspects David Pilgrim This article provides a multi-levelled framework of analysis in relation to the abuse of children by Catholic Church personnel. A description is provided at three levels or tiers of conceptualisation: macro, meso and micro. The first of these refers to global and trans
‘realism’ and experiential analysis ( Braun and Clarke, 2013 ). Instead, I adopted a critical orientation and focused on meaning making ( Joy et al, 2023 ). The Oranga Tamariki Research Access Committee gave permission to interview current and past employees, and the project was approved by the University of Auckland Human Participants Ethics Committee (Ref: 022032). I also collected key policy documents relating to child protection policy changes in Aotearoa during the 2010s ( n = 5). These were selected because they were key government-led policy documents about CYF
definition are policies that target children in their first years, but are mostly sectorial. This means that there are early childhood policies in education, health, social protection, to name some; but what they have in common is that they target children usually younger than 5 or 6 years old. These types of policies have been among the first ones that modern states have implemented as public policies in Latin America, especially in the area of health. These policies tend to be universal through the public system of hospitals or schools. Child protection policies
protection system, caseworkers’ professional skills and judgement are emphasised and, because of the philosophical roots of social work in Germany, this is positioned against evidence-based approaches in child protection. Although there have been commendable attempts to incorporate evidence-based approaches (see, for example, Sommerfeld and Hüttemann, 2007 ), there is hardly any empirical work guided by ideas from evidence-based practice (Ghanem et al, 2017 ), and no commitment towards evidence-based practice in child protection policy in Germany. During recent years
linked to men’s perceptions of the breadwinner role suggests how vital it is to understand and engage with social constructions of masculinity. Overall, given the extensive evidence that has emerged of the focus by child welfare and protection systems on deprived populations, the levels of domestic abuse that are commonly to be found in families subject to child protection processes are, therefore, to be expected and add fuel to our concerns about the invisibility of poverty in contemporary child protection policies and practices. Moreover, the Fahmy et al