Errors and Mistakes in Child Protection: International Discourses, Approaches and Strategies
Kay Biesel, Judith Masson, Nigel Parton, and Tarja Pösö
Abstract
This comprehensive international study provides a cross-national analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes in child protection practice and lessons to avoid and handle them, using research and knowledge from eleven countries in Europe and North America.
Divided into country-specific chapters, each examines the pathways that led to mistakes, the scale of their impact, how responsibilities and responses are decided and how practice and policy subsequently changed. Considering the complexities of evolving practice contexts, this authoritative, future-oriented study is an invalu ... More
This comprehensive international study provides a cross-national analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes in child protection practice and lessons to avoid and handle them, using research and knowledge from eleven countries in Europe and North America.
Divided into country-specific chapters, each examines the pathways that led to mistakes, the scale of their impact, how responsibilities and responses are decided and how practice and policy subsequently changed. 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.
Keywords:
comparative child protection,
responsibility in social work,
responses to errors and mistakes,
scandalization of social work effective and ineffective child protection reform
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447350705 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2020 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447350705.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Kay Biesel, editor
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern
Judith Masson, editor
University of Bristol
Nigel Parton, editor
University of Huddersfield
Tarja Pösö, editor
Tampere University
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