Vulnerability has been a guiding narrative to state interventions towards children and their
families in New Zealand. This article shows how this progressive notion has been …

Child protection systems within Anglophone countries have been increasingly dominated by
neoliberal managerial, risk-dominant paradigms over the past three decades. Assumed to …

Recent policy reforms have substantially changed state responses to child abuse in
Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ). These reforms draw on two related discourses: vulnerability …

The White Paper on Vulnerable Children before the Aotearoa/New Zealand parliament
proposes changes that will significantly reconstruct the child welfare systems in this country …

Introduction: The escalation of coercive, risk-averse policy directives in Aotearoa New
Zealand's child and family social work sphere is undermining the profession's potential to …

The neoliberal direction of social policy under New Zealand's fifth National government
(2008–) is demonstrated in its 2012 White Paper for Vulnerable Children. This document …

Despite the poor outcomes of early childbearing increasingly found to be equivocal, there
remains a persistent pathologising of teen parenting, which structures government …

Over the past decade, there has been increasing discussion of “vulnerable children” in the
international development and humanitarian aid literatures. The term is used in Africa to …

This article sets out to trouble the psychologised and pathologising approach that has come
to dominate child protection practice in Aotearoa-New Zealand and comparable societies …

Social work aspires to empowerment ideals, including taking a 'non-expert'position of
professional curiosity, and validating the perspectives of people in contact with services. Yet …