The role of health professionals in the UK child protection system: A literature review

Lupton, Carol; Khan, Parves

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“…Inter-personal, inter-professional, and inter-organizational factors all interact and intersect with each other within particular political and social contexts. In a British study, Lupton and Khan (1998) highlighted how policy imperatives at the central government level have had a critical bearing on the quality of relationships between health and social care agencies and professionals in the field of child protection. Attention was drawn to the impact of the marketization of the health and social care arena under the administration of the Conservative government in creating tensions between the competitive ethos of the market and the collaborative approach to joint working underpinning the UK Children Act 1989.…”

Section: The Societal and Political Contextmentioning

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An analysis of conflict experienced between agencies involved with asylum seekers

Khan¹

2003

Journal of Social Work Practice

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During the summer of 1999, four boats carrying 599 asylum seekers from China entered Canadian waters off the West Coast of Vancouver Island, B.C. The event sparked federal and provincial government agencies and community organizations to move quickly to manage the unprecedented service demands created by their arrival. Agencies, from various jurisdictions, many with no history of collaborating with one another, began to liaise. In the course of working together, collaboration was hampered by a lack of clarity over respective roles, strains on agency resources, poor communication and lack of consultation. The root of these conflict areas lay with the difficulty of reconciling differing agency mandates. It is however argued that such differences in agency mandates became the subject of polarizing agency positions as a result of the heightened political context. This included the relentless media attention and coverage scrutinizing the arrival of the asylum seekers.This paper examines the conflicts that occurred from the perspective of staff from agencies involved with the unaccompanied minors. It provides an evaluation of the conflicts through the lens of relevant conflict and organizational behavior theories published in the UK and North America. It also presents a tentative model for minimizing future conflicts in similar situations. Whilst this model draws on the recent Canadian experience, its application has wider purchase.

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Section: The Societal and Political Contextmentioning

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An analysis of conflict experienced between agencies involved with asylum seekers

Khan¹

2003

Journal of Social Work Practice

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“…However, findings from child maltreatment deaths and research served to highlight a range of barriers to frontline collaboration, including fragmentation of service responsibilities, differences in values, variable understanding of other professionals' roles and tensions concerning status, autonomy and professional expertise (Hardy et al . 1992; Lupton & Khan 1998; Hudson et al . 1999; Easen et al .…”

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“…Integration: organizations formally merge to create a new joint identity During the 1960s to late 1980s, the child protection arena activity was largely focused on information sharing and low-level joint working on individual cases (Dingwall et al 1983;Stevenson 2000;Horwath & Morrison 2011). However, findings from child maltreatment deaths and research served to highlight a range of barriers to frontline collaboration, including fragmentation of service responsibilities, differences in values, variable understanding of other professionals' roles and tensions concerning status, autonomy and professional expertise (Hardy et al 1992;Lupton & Khan 1998;Hudson et al 1999;Easen et al 2000;Jones et al 2002;Ward et al 2004). In response, over time, increased emphasis has been placed on moving from ad hoc partnership working towards systemic change and inter-agency collaboration at the strategic level (Hudson 2005;Horwath 2010;Horwath & Morrison 2011).…”

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“…The assumption that key outcomes, including 'staying safe', can only be achieved through high levels of inter-agency and inter-professional working has also been questioned. Research identifies a number of obstacles to information sharing and communication at inter-and intra-agency levels, including fragmentation of service responsibilities, differences in values, variable understanding of other professionals' roles and tensions concerning status, autonomy and professional expertise (Hardy et al 1992;Lupton & Khan 1998;Hudson et al 1999;Easen et al 2000;Jones et al 2002;Ward et al 2004). Further, although the literature demonstrates that collaborative working in child welfare can yield benefits for the professionals involved, it is less clear that this improves outcomes for children (Glisson & Hemmelgarn 1998;Jones et al 2002;Townsley et al 2003).…”

Section: O N C L U S I O Nmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Implementing Local Safeguarding Children Boards: managing complexity and ambiguity

Munro

2011

Child & Family Social Work

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Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) were established under the Children Act 2004 and have responsibility for coordinating and ensuring the effectiveness of the work of partner bodies to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. Drawing on data from a Department for Children, Schools and Families and Department of Health‐funded evaluation, the paper examines the development of LSCBs and the challenges and issues that have been encountered by Boards in implementing new arrangements. In doing so, the paper contributes to current debates about some of the limitations of New Labour's safeguarding reforms as a vehicle for improving outcomes for children and families.

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“…While liaison with social services and the police tended to involve those in particular roles even though the actual personnel might change, in the process of supporting caseload pupils the support workers came into contact with many different types of health professional. In-depth links proved dif®cult to establish not only because of the range of potential professionals to whom pupils might be referred but also because of the autonomy of these professionals, especially doctors (Lupton and Khan, 1998), and the pressure to which the mental health services in particular were subject.…”

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Joining up the solutions: the rhetoric and practice of inter‐agency cooperation

Webb

Vulliamy

2001

Children & Society

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A three-year project placed home-school support workers in secondary schools. The intention was that they should work closely at operational level with other agencies to provide a cohesive local authority response to the needs of disaffected and excluded youngsters. Crucial distinctions emerged between project constraints, possibilities and bene®ts for agency personnel in the school-focused agencies and those external to the school. In relation to the external agencies, support workers ful®lled predominantly an information gathering and sharing role whereby they joined up the solutions of disparate agencies, whereas very effective forms of cooperation developed with the school-focused agencies. Copyright # 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. I n order to provide an effective`seamless' response to the needs of young people, it has long been recognised that agencies must work in close cooperation. More recently through legislation (for example, the 1989 Children Act and the 1996 Education Act) and guidance (for example, Department for Education and Employment), 1999; Department of Health, Home Of®ce and Department for Education and Employment, 1999; and Department of Health, 2000) the government has endorsed the importance of such cooperation by setting out speci®c requirements as to how agencies should work together in order to plan and implement`joined-up solutions' to social problems. However, inter-agency cooperation is recognised as problematic with clashes between professional cultures, competition between departments for local government funding, reductions in overall budgets and low morale being commonly cited as the main contributory factors (see, for example, Dyson and others, 1998;Hallett and Birchall, 1992;Vernon and Sinclair, 1998). Conducting an evaluation of a three-year Home Of®ce funded project Meeting Need and Challenging Crime in Partnership with Schools provided the opportunity to study the rhetoric and practice of inter-agency cooperation and to investigate the factors constraining and facilitating the implementation of joined-up solutions. The project placed social work trained home-school support Copyright # 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Rosemary Webb* and Graham Vulliamy Department of Educational Studies, University of York *Correspondence to: Dr R. Webb, Department of Educational Studies, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD. E-mail: rew7@york.ac.uk workers in secondary schools to support pupils at risk of exclusion and keep them in mainstream education. Thus it targeted assistance to those youngsters whose challenging behaviour and disaffection from school research has shown are indicators of the possibility of future offending (see for example, Audit Commission, 1996;Cullingford, 1999;Graham and Bowling, 1995).The project had two main aims which were to reduce the number of exclusions from school of youngsters with challenging behaviours and, in acknowledgement of the range of expertise required effectively to address their needs (Lupton and Sheppard, 1999) to ensure a cohesive loca...

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The role of health professionals in the UK child protection system: A literature review

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

An analysis of conflict experienced between agencies involved with asylum seekers

An analysis of conflict experienced between agencies involved with asylum seekers

Implementing Local Safeguarding Children Boards: managing complexity and ambiguity

Joining up the solutions: the rhetoric and practice of inter‐agency cooperation

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