Collaboration and conversations with children in Child Welfare Services —Parents' viewpoint

Juul, Randi; Husby, Inger Sofie Dahlø

doi:10.1111/cfs.12707

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“…For instance, birth parents might share a contentious relationship and may not want to work with each other. Here, CW staff must also work to ameliorate such concerns in order to promote congruence between involved parties [79]. This is necessary to ensure that progress is being made towards achieving permanency for the child.…”

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Unpacking Invisible Work Practices, Constraints, and Latent Power Relationships in Child Welfare through Casenote Analysis

Saxena,

Moon,

Shehata

et al. 2022

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Caseworkers are trained to write detailed narratives about families in Child-Welfare (CW) which informs collaborative high-stakes decision-making. Unlike other administrative data, these narratives offer a more credible source of information with respect to workers' interactions with families as well as underscore the role of systemic factors in decision-making. SIGCHI researchers have emphasized the need to understand human discretion at the street-level to be able to design human-centered algorithms for the public sector. In this study, we conducted computational text analysis of casenotes at a child-welfare agency in the midwestern United States and highlight patterns of invisible street-level discretionary work and latent power structures that have direct implications for algorithm design. Casenotes offer a unique lens for policymakers and CW leadership towards understanding the experiences of on-the-ground caseworkers. As a result of this study, we highlight how street-level discretionary work needs to be supported by sociotechnical systems developed through worker-centered design. This study offers the first computational inspection of casenotes and introduces them to the SIGCHI community as a critical data source for studying sociotechnical systems.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Human-computer interaction (HCI); Empirical studies in HCI ; • Applied computing → Computing in government.

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Unpacking Invisible Work Practices, Constraints, and Latent Power Relationships in Child Welfare through Casenote Analysis

Saxena,

Moon,

Shehata

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Children and Young People’s Participation in decision-making in Foster Care

2022

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Children's participation in decisions about their lives is a crucial point of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is the basis of child welfare and protection worldwide. Despite these clear guidelines, there is evidence that children's voices may be heard but often with little impact on the decisions made by professionals in the childcare system. This study seeks to ascertain whether the voice of children living in foster care is considered and respected when making decisions that concern them, whether the children effectively exercise it, and what factors impact their participation. A systematic scoping review was performed to clarify concepts and unveil research gaps, using eleven scientific databases and publishers that allowed us to identify twelve recent studies in critical journals. In the light of the Bouma et al., (2018) model, the findings showed that there is, in general, a lack of effective children's participation, namely in terms of information, listening, and involvement. Children's voices still have a minimum impact on the decisions made in the childcare system. It will be necessary to avoid the bureaucratic assumption that there is an age cut-off point to promote participation. More, it is stressed the importance of a trusting, sincere and confidential relationship between the child and the social worker and the need to ensure training for professionals who intervene in review/statutory meetings or judicial proceedings, namely in the court of law.

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Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe

Devaney

Christiansen

Holzer

et al. 2022

European Journal of Social Work

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Collaboration and conversations with children in Child Welfare Services —Parents' viewpoint

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

Unpacking Invisible Work Practices, Constraints, and Latent Power Relationships in Child Welfare through Casenote Analysis

Unpacking Invisible Work Practices, Constraints, and Latent Power Relationships in Child Welfare through Casenote Analysis

Children and Young People’s Participation in decision-making in Foster Care

Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe

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