This article considers selected drivers of decision variability in child welfare decision-making
and explores current debates in relation to these drivers. Covering the related influences of …

This paper investigates the reasoning processes of social workers in child protection social
work as they make decisions. Within this interpretive process, they assign meaning to clients' …

Many decisions in the child welfare arena revolve around the concept of 'children's best
interests', but determining what they actually consist of is contestable and subject to …

Recent child welfare policy developments in the UK have foregrounded consideration of the
family as either the subject of intervention or the partner for change. Such developments …

The contention of this paper is that the context of social and therapeutic problems is critical
to their resolution, and that many of them stem from historical and structural injustice. It …

This paper discusses the development of a practice framework for child welfare in New
Zealand. A practice framework is defined as a conceptual map that brings together, in an …

Providing services that are culturally relevant is an ongoing challenge for practitioners,
managers, and policy-makers within the social services. Culture and Child Protection is a …

This paper takes the opportunity of the current child welfare system change in Ireland to
promote the value of learning from history to better understand the interface between family …

Work within the human services is increasingly influenced by rights-based thinking, and this
book offers advice for the practitioner on how to translate abstract rights theory into their …

Although a widely accepted term in child welfare discourses, there remains a vagueness as
to what F amily S upport as a named orientation in children and family services actually …