One of the most frequently cited principles in the 1989 United Nations Convention on the
Rights of the Child is Article 12. This article provides a critical analysis of the challenges that …

This paper compares how frontline staff in four national child welfare systems and policy
contexts–Finland, Norway, England and the USA (specifically, California)–respond to …

This chapter provides an overview of the Irish child protection and welfare system, and
examines continuities and discontinuities between the past and the present. 2012 is chosen …

This article challenges the commonly held assumption that there is a high level of
occupational turnover of social workers in all child protection and welfare agencies. By …

The question of the extent to which qualifying education prepares social work students to
become effective practitioners has long been debated. This article reports the quantitative …

This paper examines the issue of social workers' caseloads in child protection and welfare in
the Republic of Ireland. High caseloads impact on the type and quality of service provided to …

This chapter demonstrates how social work with children and families has advanced from a
rudimentary set of activities prior to the 1970s into the current system of what could loosely …

This article considers how adoption may develop as viable option for permanency planning
for children in care in Ireland following the Constitutional Referendum in 2012 on Children's …

This paper describes and critically evaluates a new interdisciplinary MSc in Child Welfare
and Protection designed in Ireland for national and international post-qualified practitioners …

Purpose–In the century from 1868 to 1969, over 105,000 children were detained in industrial
schools in Ireland, having been committed by the courts. The purpose of this paper is to …