Errors and Mistakes in Child Protection: International Discourses, Approaches and Strategies

by Kay Biesel (Editor), Judith Masson (Editor)

Overview

This comprehensive international study provides a cross-national analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes, as well as lessons to avoid and how to handle them in child protection practice, using research and knowledge from 11 countries in Europe and North America. Divided into country-specific chapters, each examines the pathways that lead to mistakes happening, the scale of their impact, how responsibilities and responses are decided and how practice and policy subsequently change. Considering the complexities of evolving practice contexts, this authoritative, future-oriented study is an invaluable text for practitioners, researchers and policy makers wishing to understand why child protection fails – and offers a springboard for fresh thinking about strategies to reduce future risk.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447350941
Publisher:	Policy Press
Publication date:	03/18/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Kay Biesel is Professor of Child and Youth Services, focusing on child protection, at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Judith Masson is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bristol. Nigel Parton is Professor of Applied Childhood Studies at the University of Huddersfield. Tarja Pösö is Professor of Social Work at Tampere University.

Table of Contents

1 Errors and mistakes in child protection: an introduction
Kay Biesel, Judith Masson, Nigel Parton and Tarja Pösö
2 Errors and mistakes in child protection: understandings and responsibilities
Kay Biesel and Michelle Cottier
3 England: attempting to learn from mistakes in an increasingly ‘risk averse’ professional context
Judith Masson and Nigel Parton
4 The social construction of child abuse in Ireland: public discourse, policy challenges and practice failures
Caroline Shore and Fred Powell
5 The level- headed approach on errors and mistakes in
Dutch child protection: an individual duty or a shared responsibility?
Kirti Zeijlmans, Tom van Yperen and Mónica López López
6 The Finnish approach to errors and mistakes in child protection: trust in practitioners and service users?
Essi Julin and Tarja Pösö
7 Errors and mistakes in the Norwegian child protection system
Marit Skivenes and Øyvind Tefre
8 The political- administrative and the professional approach to errors and mistakes in Swedish child protection
Inger Kjellberg and Staffan Höjer
9 Errors and mistakes in child protection in Switzerland: a missed opportunity of refl ection?
Brigitte Müller, Kay Biesel and Clarissa Schär
10 Discourses, approaches and strategies on errors and mistakes in child protection in Germany
Heinz Kindler, Christine Gerber and Susanna Lillig
11 Dysfunctions in French child protection
Hélène Join- Lambert and Gilles Séraphin
12 Errors and mistakes in child protection: an unspoken issue in Italy?
Teresa Bertotti
13 Preventing and responding to errors in US child protection
Jill Duerr Berrick and Jaclyn Chambers
14 Dealing with errors and mistakes in child protection: similarities and differences among countries
Kay Biesel, Judith Masson, Nigel Parton and Tarja Pösö

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"At last a book that offers hope and reassurance for practitioners in child protection without swerving the complex, cross national understandings of why errors and mistakes happen." Marian Brandon, University of East Anglia.

Editorial Reviews

I would highly recommend this book for social workers, academics and researchers in the area of child protection and welfare, particularly those with an interest in child protection internationally. It should be compulsory reading for all social workers in child protection in Ireland.” The Irish Social Worker

From the Publisher