The Confidential Doctor Centre — A New Approach to Child Protection Work

Marneffe, Catherine

doi:10.1177/030857599201600406

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“…The current redistribution of resources from preventive and treatment programs to investigation is on a dangerous path, the end point of which can be witnessed on the other side of the Pacific. Strangely we seek our solutions from the United States despite the fact that many of the countries in Western Europe have developed far better child welfare systems in which legal intervention is a last resort made possible by the high priority given to adequately resourcing preventive and therapeutic interventions such as the Confidential Doctor Program in Belgium and the Netherlands (Marneffe 1992).…”

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Child Protection: Paradoxes of Publicity, Policy and Practice

Scott¹

1995

Aust J Social Issues

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Recent media COl'eraRe of child abuse in Victoria is critically analysed. Parallels are drawn hent'eenthe subsrance and style of newspaper coverage of child abuse cases in the late nineteenth celllury 'first wave' ofthe child rescue movement and that in the late t'tt'entieth century 'second wave' of the child rescue mO\'ement. The twin themes of vengeance and voyeurism are clearly evident in both periods. The classic late nineteenth century concepts of Freud and Durkheim are drawn upon 10 illuminate the psychological and sociological sources o/these themes. The current Victorian child protection system is used as a case study to explore the paradoxes for policy and practice which arise in part from the publicisatiol1 and associated politicisation of child abuse. These paradoxes include the redirection of resources from prevention and treatment to investigation services.

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Child Protection: Paradoxes of Publicity, Policy and Practice

Scott¹

1995

Aust J Social Issues

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“…Dominant British and North American definitions of abuse are almost exclusively concerned with abuse within the family, contributing to a climate which can leave both parents and foster carers feeling targetted rather than empowered. These definitions are criticised for taking inadequate account of the economic and social contexts of people's lives and of the abuse caused by discrimination (Marneffe, 1992, Violence Against Children Study Group, 1990Jones, 1993). However, there is an alternative, supported by cross-national and cross-cultural research.…”

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