Child Protection and Vulnerable Families
Trends and Issues in the Australian Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5934767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Fernandez (0000-0002-6654-2166, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 785-808 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci3040785 |
| OpenAlex | W1967020808 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 45 |
This paper will provide an overview and analysis of developments in child protection and out of home care in Australia. It will outline early responses to perceived inadequate parenting to provide the historical and policy contexts of contemporary debates on, and responses to, the care and protection of children and young people. Child maltreatment affects a large number of children across Australia. The statistics of reported maltreatment reflect striking increases over time. Over the last decade, several public inquiries into the operation of child protection have been undertaken in a number of state jurisdictions following which some states have embarked on large scale reform of legislation and policy, to either strengthen the child protection mandate, or refocus services. Some exemplars of significant reform in selected states will be cited. Some of the themes that will be explored in the paper will include the impact of major state based public inquiries, overseas reviews and research on child protection policy and practice; the changing balance between orientations to child protection and family support, the parameters of out of home care, the high levels of governmental intervention experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, and a critical appraisal of major transformations in protective care
Child care · Child protection · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Family preservation · Foster care · Geography · Legislation · Mandate · Political science · Public policy · Public relations · State (computer science · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Children's Rights and Participation · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration
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Supporting birth parents’ relationships with children following removal
Protective Support and Supportive Protection
Bridging justice expectations in child protection
Birth Parents and the Collateral Consequences of Court-ordered Child Removal
Grandparents matter
Looked after children's right to contact with birth parents
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Permanent Care Orders in Victoria
Grandparent Carers, Child Protection Practice, and the Best Interests of Children
Recognising the caring capabilities of birth families of removed children
Staff perspectives on program functioning and fidelity of a kinship navigator program
Practitioners’ experience of implementing therapeutic residential care
The emotional terrain of foster and kinship carers’ relationships with parents of children in care
Reunification in Informal Foster Care Child Placement
Informing Permanent Care Discourses
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Using procedural justice theory to understand public perceptions of child protection
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The protection of children
Child Welfare Research
Child Protection Systems
Common errors of reasoning in child protection work
Placement Stability and Mental Health Costs for Children in Foster Care
Mental Health Problems of Children in Foster Care
Child protection and out of home care
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Issues in Risk Assessment in Child Protective Services
New Directions in child protection and family support in Western Australia
Early outcomes for young adults transitioning from out‐of‐home care in the USA
How children experience fostering outcomes
New Directions in child protection and family support in Western Australia
The knowledge of caring
Significant Harm
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Young People Transitioning from Out-of-home Care in Victoria
Magistrates' Perspectives on the Criminal Division of the Children's Court of Victoria
Kinship Care in the United States
Exploring Foster Carer Perceptions and Experiences of Placements and Placement Support
Predictors of foster care exits to permanency
Leaving foster care—the influence of child and case characteristics on foster care exit rates
Children's wellbeing in care
Integrated services for families with multiple problems
The role of welfare and work in predicting foster care reunification rates for children of welfare recipients
Reunification in a complete entry cohort
The impact of orphanages on the Alumni's lives and assessments of their childhoods
Retrospective and concurrent predictors of the mental health of children in care
The social and family correlates of successful reunification of children in foster care
Participation in decision-making in out-of-home care in Australia
Feminist Approaches to Social Science
Unravelling Emotional, Behavioural and Educational Outcomes in a Longitudinal Study of Children in Foster-Care
Placement Stability and Movement Trajectories
Child Maltreatment
Why Do Foster Care Placements Disrupt? An Investigation of Reasons for Placement Change in Foster Care
| Unique citing works | 24 |
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| Citations per year | 2,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |