“…Other concerns include risk-adverse cultures, overburdened staff and the burgeoning costs of the system (Carmody, 2013;Collins-Camargo, Ellett, & Lester, 2011;Glisson, Dukes, & Green, 2006). Added challenges are the intersection of child protection issues with other concerns such as domestic violence, drug and alcohol misuse and mental health issues, and a lack of effective service collaboration due to often fragmented, siloed and competitive health and human services systems (Lonne, Featherstone, Gray, & Harries, 2015). Working in an overloaded and scrutinised system, child protection practitioners can feel 'compromised in fulfilling the moral and emotional dimension of the job as a result of the demands of a neoliberal state' (Smith et al, 2016, p. 973).…”