Errors and Mistakes in Child Protection

International Discourses, Approaches and Strategies

Biesel, Kay,Masson, Judith

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781447350941
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Lavoro in ambito sociale

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• List of abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Errors and mistakes in child protectionan introduction
• 2 Errors and mistakes in child protection: understandings and responsibilities
• 3 England: attempting to learn from mistakes in an increasingly ‘risk averse’ professional context
• 4 The social construction of child abuse in Irelandpublic discourse, policy challenges and practice failures
• 5 The level-headed approach on errors and mistakes in Dutch child protection: an individual duty or a shared responsibility?
• 6 The Finnish approach to errors and mistakes in child protection: trust in practitioners and service users?
• 7 Errors and mistakes in the Norwegian child protection system
• 8 The political-administrative and the professional approach to errors and mistakes in Swedish child protection
• 9 Errors and mistakes in child protection in Switzerland: a missed opportunity of reflection?
• 10 Discourses, approaches and strategies on errors and mistakes in child protection in Germany
• 11 Dysfunctions in French child protection
• 12 Errors and mistakes in child protection: an unspoken issue in Italy?
• 13 Preventing and responding to errors in US child protection
• 14 Dealing with errors and mistakes in child protection: similarities and differences among countries
• Index