Future Outlook for Child Protection Policies in Europe

Agathonos-Georgopoulou, Helen

doi:10.1016/s0145-2134(97)00173-7

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“…These problems are particularly challenging in child maltreatment research where countries have different definitions of and orientations to concepts such as child welfare, child protection, abuse and neglect (Agathonos-Georgopoulou, 1998). It was imperative that we had native speakers of Swedish and English to ensure equivalency of terms and to reduce biases in interpretation in all stages of the research process (Jentsch, 1998).…”

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“…Cross-cultural comparative research poses challenges in establishing equivalence (for example of terms such as physical or sexual abuse and neglect) and eliminating biases (including interpreter biases toward or against either individual utterances or whole systems) ( Van de Vijver and Leung, 1997). These problems are particularly challenging in child maltreatment research where countries have different definitions of and orientations to concepts such as child welfare, child protection, abuse and neglect (Agathonos-Georgopoulou, 1998). It was imperative that we had native speakers of Swedish and English to ensure equivalency of terms and to reduce biases in interpretation in all stages of the research process (Jentsch, 1998).…”

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Child Welfare or Child Protection

Khoo

Hyvönen²,

Nygren

2002

Qualitative Social Work

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This article details our findings from focus groups with social workers in Sweden and Canada illuminating similarities and differences in the process of social intervention in child maltreatment. We identified six categories that form the bases for hypothesizing different orientations of child welfare and child protection: Gate Keeping; Skills in Context; Client Identity; Decision Points; Compulsion; and Measures. We analysed participants' descriptions and uncovered how these descriptions of social intervention in child maltreatment connect to model orientations in both countries. In Swedish child welfare, there is a greater readiness to intervene with KEY WORDS: abuse child protection child welfare cross-national Sweden Canada ARTICLE 451 at Uni of Southern Queensland on June 19, 2015 qsw.sagepub.com Downloaded frommore resources and measures, intervention is assessment driven and focuses on family preservation. In Canadian child protection, only the most needy children are eligible for a limited range of services, intervention is structure driven and more narrowly focused on protection and permanency planning. The implications of these findings to social work are discussed.

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Child Welfare or Child Protection

Khoo

Hyvönen²,

Nygren

2002

Qualitative Social Work

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“…Not surprisingly, this intention is also adopted by child welfare practitioners, mainly in family support regimes, as appropriate responses in providing child welfare service interventions (Agathonos-Georgopoulou, 1998;CBI, 2008). Two examples regarding required care-giving arrangements for these needy children are given below:…”

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

Hsu¹

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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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