child protection research
- Active engagement: strategies to increase service participation by vulnerable families
- Attachment: Key issues
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Assessment of parenting capacity - literature review
The assessment of parenting capacity is a core task in child protection practice. Determining parents’ capacity to protect their children from risk and enhance their developmental experiences is crucial in deciding whether to remove and/or restore children to the care of their parents.
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Child neglect - literature review
Neglectful parenting is most strongly associated with poverty. It often occurs where there are large numbers of children being cared for by a young single mother with little social support. Substance abuse, mental health issues and domestic violence often add to already limited parenting capacity and serve to exacerbate the situation - Domestic violence and its impact on children's development
- Effective casework practice with adolescents: perceptions and practices of DoCS staff
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Family group conferencing in a child welfare context - literature review
Family group conferencing is a method of resolving, or attempting to resolve, family issues in child protection. It brings together the family, the child and professionals to meet and develop a plan for future action. -
Models of service delivery and interventions for children and young people with high needs - literature review
Children and young people with high needs generally present with complex problems, including significant histories of abuse (as victims, perpetrators or both), serious mental health issues, ‘challenging’ behaviours, intellectual and learning disabilities, histories of school suspension/expulsion, and difficult familial relationships. The high level of need of children and young people requiring out-of-home care should be matched by appropriate and effective services and interventions.
- Neglect: key intervention strategies
- Neglect: key issues
- Parenting capacity assessment: improving decision-making
- Parental empathy and child maltreatment
- Quality child care as an intervention: issues for caseworkers
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Risk assessment in child welfare
Child protection practice involves making decisions about the care, protection and welfare of children. These decisions include assessing the potential level of risk of abuse and/or neglect to a child, the services that might reduce this risk and the point at which it becomes necessary for a child to be removed from the care of their family.
- Risk, protection and resilience in children and families
- Use of appropriate language when working with Aboriginal communities in NSW
