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Child Protection Systems
International Trends and Orientations
Edited by Neil Gilbert, Edited by Nigel Parton, and Edited by Marit Skivenes
288 pages
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13 line-cuts
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235x156mm
978-0-19-979335-8
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Hardback
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09 June 2011
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- A detailed analysis of child protection trends and policies across ten countries
- Illustrates how child protection approaches are rooted in overall social welfare philosophies
- Analyzes the two major trends (child protection vs. family service) and charts the rise of a third way, the child-focused orientation
Child Protection Systems is a comparative study of the social policies and professional practices that frame societal responses to the problems of child maltreatment in ten countries: USA, Canada, England, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Norway. Focusing on the developments in policy and practice since the mid-1990s, this volume provides a detailed, up-to-date analysis of the similarities and differences in how child protection systems operate and their outcomes. The findings highlight the changing criteria that define child maltreatment, trends in
out-of-home placement, professional responses to allegations of maltreatment, and the level of state responsibility for child and family welfare, providing an in-depth understanding of the different ways modern welfare states assume the sensitive responsibility of balancing children's rights and parents' rights.
The changing character of child protection systems worldwide reflects dramatic and rapid organizational, policy, and legislative changes; the expansion of child welfare systems; the rise of formal procedures and evidence-based initiatives; the increased challenges posed by race and ethnicity; and the extent to which countries adopt either a child protection or a family service approach to child abuse. Each chapter analyzes these developments and the
directions in which they are heading, such as movements toward privatization and devolution of child welfare service delivery. Against this backdrop, a third approach begins to emerge-a child-focused orientation-that aims to promote and improve children's development and well-being.
A vital book for understanding contemporary trends and policy issues in the design of child protection systems, this will be must reading for comparative scholars of child welfare, family policy, and the welfare state.Readership: Comparative scholars of child welfare, family policy, and the welfare state.
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Edited by Neil Gilbert, Chernin Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, Edited by Nigel Parton, NSPCC Professor in Applied Childhood Studies, University of Huddersfield, and Edited by Marit Skivenes, Senior Researcher, Bergen University College Neil Gilbert, PhD, is Chernin Professor of Social Welfare at the School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, and Co-Director of the Center for Child and Youth Policy.
Nigel Parton, PhD, is NSPCC Professor in Applied Childhood Studies, University of Huddersfield.
Marit Skivenes, PhD, is Senior Researcher, Bergen University College.
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"The book is well written, interesting, and important in presenting all these different patterns and trends in each country over the years. It would be welcome material in university and college teaching, but it also gives ideas for governmental actions towards developing practices. Furthermore, the discussion about methods in analysing connections between macro and micro levels may provide nourishment for further developing approaches and concepts in the field." - Nordic Social Work Research, Feb 2013
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1. Introduction
Neil Gilbert, Nigel Parton, and Marit Skivenes
I. ANGLO-AMERICAN SYSTEMS
2. Trends and Issues in the U.S. Child Welfare System
Jill Duerr Berrick
3. Canadian Child Welfare: Child Protection and the Status Quo
Karen Swift
4. Child Protection in England
Nigel Parton and David Berridge
II. NORDIC SYSTEMS
5. The Dark Side of the Universal Welfare State? Child Abuse and Protection in Sweden
Madeleine Cocozza and Sven E. O. Hort
6. Combatting Child Abuse in Finland: From Family to Child-Centered Orientation
Tarja Pösö
7. Denmark: A Child Welfare System Under Reframing
Anne-Dorthe Hestbæk
8. Norway: Towards a Child-Centric Perspective
Marit Skivenes
III. CONTINENTAL SYSTEMS
9. Child Protection in an Age of Uncertainty: Germany's Response
Reinhart Wolff, Kay Biesel, and Stefan Heinitz
10. Policy Towards Child Abuse and Neglect in Belgium: In Search of a Democratic Approach
Kristof Desair and Peter Adriaenssens
11. Child Welfare in the Netherlands: Between Privacy and Protection
Trudie Knijn and Carolus van Nijnatten
IV. CONCLUSION
12. Changing Patterns of Response and Emerging Orientations
Neil Gilbert, Nigel Parton, and Marit Skivenes
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