Towards geographies of child protection

Disney, Tom; Lloyd, Jenny

doi:10.1111/gec3.12545

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“…This is the issue that in the light of the study needs to be raised into social political discussion. During recent years, as Hood et al (2021) have also noted regarding the UK perspective, developing the child protection system has been difficult because attention has focused on direct interventions instead of addressing the system as a whole (Disney & Lloyd, 2020; Hood et al, 2020). There is a risk that the broader deliberation of the child protection system will be overwhelmed by the individual client cases (which are, of course, important in themselves).…”

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Family support services buffer the effect of child welfare notifications on child removals

Toikko

Seppälä

Hietamäki

2022

Child & Family Social Work

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Previous studies have found mixed results about the effects of family support services within the child protection system. The purpose of the study is to examine whether family support services are associated with the need for child removals at the community level. The material of the study consists of Finnish municipalities (N = 292) and their child protection indicators. Linear regression analysis was conducted to analyse the associations between the dependent variable (child removals) and the main predictors (child welfare notifications and family support services). It was found that family support services are associated with child removals. The more children there are in family support services, the more there are also child removals in a municipality. The key finding of the analysis is that a higher rather than lower proportion of clients in family support services buffers the increased effect of demand (child welfare notifications) on child removals better. In this sense, the demand for child removals is not only associated with the characteristics of children and families but may be partly explained by the role of family support services in a municipality. The present study underlines the significance of a system-level approach to child protection.

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Family support services buffer the effect of child welfare notifications on child removals

Toikko

Seppälä

Hietamäki

2022

Child & Family Social Work

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“…It's not quite, as Disney claims, 'a re-contextualizing via a higher form of knowing', but a broader and more acute form of apprehension. 39 Instead of distancing us from the truth, poetry, in Stevens' view, is as close as we can come to embodying apprehensions of reality. Distance is also crucial to the impersonal technique Stevens aspires to in his verse.…”

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Wallace Stevens, Plato, and the Question of Poetic Truth

Hart¹

2023

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Stevens confronts Plato's rebuff of poetry head-on. In the first canto of 'The Auroras of Autumn', he is frustrated in his search for poetic transfiguration by 'Another image at the end of the cave'. He concludes, finally, that his endeavour amounts merely to 'form gulping after formlessness'. 1 This image brings together the analogy of the cave that Plato employs in the Republicwhich casts what we perceive as misleading appearanceswith Stevens' own anxiety over poetry's embodiment of truth: does verse form ever license insights that are not recondite abstractions, or, as Plato insists, does a rupture between appearance and reality leave poetic truth an ever elusive pursuit? These lines in Stevens' poem confirm for Helen Vendler the condition of the artist in whose heart and mind 'every formed object and image hungers for another object, another deceptive shadowy image in Plato's cave'. 2 And yet, Stevens strives to overcome this predicament. His writing discloses a direct engagement with Plato's philosophy in order to reassert the intrinsic value of poetry.The ancient philosopher provides the foundational critique of poetry based upon his theory of forms, deferring the true essence of things to the Intelligible realm. Humanity is left bereft, in his view, of the cognitive access to these essences. Accordingly, all our artistic representations of what we perceive through sense impressions become reduced to inaccurate representations of the world. Stevens responds by developing a theory of poetry that is as philosophically serious as his poems are technically achieved. Plato's claims for the failings of poetry, which stem from his attraction to idealism, equip him with a helpful point of reference. 3 Plato's idealised forms are final; Stevens' abstractions often turn out not to be ends in themselves. They allow him to test out different hypotheses, like an actor donning successive masks. 'The Idea of Order at Key West' is a case in point, describing 'Whatever self' the sea 2 had 'became the self | That was her song'. He then returns at the close of the poem to tactile and lyric particulars:The maker's rage to order words of the sea, Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred, And of ourselves and of our origins, In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.

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“…While these services may currently be termed 'Early Help' we use the term 'Family Support' in order to draw attention to the continuities (and ruptures) between local authority services that seek to support children and families. We adopt an ecological approach to explore how Family Hubs (as one component of local authority Family Support provision) have been (re)framed as primary spaces of 'early intervention', building on a growing interest in geography towards operation of child and family welfare systems and practitioners (Disney and Lloyd, 2020) and 'family troubles' (Evans et al 2019). We draw on the concept of 'care ecology' to conceptualise local authority Family Support services as 'carescapes', following Bowlby and McKie (2019).…”

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confidence: 99%