1. Understanding International Comparisons of Child Protection, Family Service, and Community Caring Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Cameron, Gary; Freymond, Nancy

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“…Socioeconomic disadvantage has been described as "the most consistent and strongest" predictor of child protective services (CPS) involvement. 1 An extensive literature documents that economic stress and hardship, low income, poverty status, and related factors are associated with increased risk of both child maltreatment and CPS involvement. Economic factors may directly and indirectly affect risk of abuse or neglect.…”

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Home Foreclosure and Child Protective Services Involvement

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We estimated associations between experiencing a home foreclosure filing and experiencing a child protective services (CPS) investigation or substantiation. METHODS:We linked a large sample drawn from administrative data on foreclosure filings, CPS involvement, and participation in a host of other public programs for .60 000 Wisconsin households over a 4-year period from 2008 to 2011. Our empirical analyses used piecewise exponential survival models to estimate the risk of CPS involvement (investigation or substantiation) as a function of a home foreclosure filing and a set of individual and household characteristics. We fitted these models with and without the inclusion of propensity score weights. RESULTS:Households that experienced a foreclosure filing had a much higher probability of CPS involvement. This was true in the year before the filing as well as the year after the foreclosure filing. However, these associations were generally largest in the period before or shortly afterward.CONCLUSIONS: Experiencing a foreclosure filing is associated with increased CPS involvement. However, it is not clear that this association is driven by the foreclosure filing action itself. Rather, increased risk of CPS involvement is apparent during the process of moving toward the filing as well as the year or so after the filing, both of which are likely characterized by limited economic resources as well as by financial and other stress.

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“…The way the child welfare services respond to needy children reflects the conceptualisation of these children in different societal and cultural contexts (Cameron & Freymond, 2006;Yu, 2012). For example, in many developed regions, mostly in Western countries such as the Anglophone nations, European nations and Scandinavian nations, there are two dominant service approaches to achieving child welfare, which have been referred to by Freymond and…”

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“…In the child protection system approach, which exists in many Anglophone nations, the main feature is that the family is primarily responsible for the child, and the state has a secondary responsibility to intervene when parents are suspected of violating minimum standards for the care of their children (Cameron & Freymond, 2006). In England, for example, child welfare refers to protecting and promoting the welfare of children, in particular children in need In contrast, in the family service system, mostly adopted by Scandinavian countries such as Norway and Sweden, and some European countries such as the Netherlands, the main focus of the system is helping children in need through family service intervention.…”

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“…Based on this emphasis, the main 210 concern of child welfare services is providing support to needy children by helping the families of these children. This feature is similar to the family service system which reflects an emphasis on helping children in need through family service intervention (Cameron & Freymond, 2006;Katz & Hetherington, 2006).Under government and NGO's guidelines, child welfare NGOs in Taiwan offer family support, such as cash subsidies and parenting skills training, for up to six months (Child Welfare League Foundation, 2014;MOHW, 2014). A further three-to-six-month service intervention to the family is possible, but not guaranteed.…”

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A study of non-government child welfare services in Taiwan focused on children in need of child welfare service intervention

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The aim of this study is to explore the characteristics of children in need of child welfare service intervention in Taiwan from the perspective of child welfare non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and to seek pathways to enhance such children's rights and well-being.Over the last two decades, Taiwanese society has experienced rapid changes in its economic development as well as population. Along with these changes, child welfare services in Taiwan have emerged and undergone a series of institutional and legislative reforms. More recently, there have been an increasing number of children using a range of child welfare services in Taiwanese society. Taiwan has specific child welfare services for children in need.The issue of children in need has received a lot of discussion in child welfare literature mainly in the Western contexts; however, the child welfare literature is under-developed in children in need in the Taiwanese context, particularly from the perspective of child welfare NGOs.The present study deals with this gap through examining the characteristics of children in need and responses of child welfare NGOs to children in need in a specific cultural and social context. This qualitative study was underpinned by a social constructionist epistemology and incorporated an ecological approach. Two data sources, documents and in-depth, semi-structured interviews, were used in this study. Twenty-six legal and policy documents, including legislation, annual reports and web pages, were purposively sampled from three child welfare NGOs in Taiwan. Thirteen participants, including seven senior executive officers and six frontline workers, were recruited from the same three NGOs to participate in individual, in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The documents that were written in Chinese were translated and the interviews were transcribed and translated into English before data analysis. All analysed data were managed with a qualitative data software (NVivo) to handle the analysis tasks.ii The results of the study pointed out three key dimensions of care-giving arrangementsphysical, educational and emotional care-giving arrangements-for children in need. The diversity of family background, economic disadvantages, and vulnerable primary caregivers are the three main issues identified in this study that result in the challenges of the family to respond to children's needs. Child welfare NGOs in Taiwan recognised that, along with child protection services, such as placement arrangements, it is also important to offer services and resources, such as short-term financial assistance, to support children in need and their families.The study traced the emergence of non-government child welfare services in Taiwanese society and their importance of child welfare NGOs in the delivery of child welfare services on the ground. The study also argues that the differences of viewpoints, in particular with regard to resource distribution and expected responsibility between the state, child welfare NGOs and the family, create specif...

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Road‐testing child protection typologies: A case study in Lebanon

El-Hoss

Brown

2022

Child Abuse Review

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Over the past three decades a small number of influential writers have bravely attempted to develop theoretical models for understanding and comparing the complex development of child protection systems across different countries. The foremost frameworks have compared the dynamics of child protection arrangements in high-income countries, with little attention being given to middle-and low-income countries and, more specifically, the MENA region. This paper presents Lebanon's child protection model and highlights factors that have led to its unique development in the last 20 years. It contends that Lebanon's child protection system is pluralistic in nature, with responsibilities for the ultimate safety and wellbeing of children diffused among a variety of stakeholders. As a relatively new domain of practice for the state, the protection of children in Lebanon has become implicated in the ever-present national debates regarding the correct balance of authority between state, religion and citizen. A parallel system of decision-making exists with a state-run system struggling to find its place alongside customary religious courts unlikely to relinquish their power over family affairs. Through an examination of Lebanon, the paper aims to further road test the most recent typology and address its applicability to one Middle East country. K E Y W O R D S child protection systems, Lebanon, pluralism, typologies Key Practitioner Messages• The Lebanese child protection system is pluralistic with safeguarding responsibilities for children diffused among a variety of stakeholders. • Child protection in Lebanon remains a complex and ever-evolving relationship where the 'statutory' system struggles for legitimacy in a context where the state is rarely seen as the rightful arbitrator of family affairs. • Typologies equip us with tools to evaluate and compare protection systems;however, further refinement is required as we include a broader range of countries.

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1. Understanding International Comparisons of Child Protection, Family Service, and Community Caring Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Cited by 24 publications

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Home Foreclosure and Child Protective Services Involvement

Home Foreclosure and Child Protective Services Involvement

A study of non-government child welfare services in Taiwan focused on children in need of child welfare service intervention

Road‐testing child protection typologies: A case study in Lebanon

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