child protection research
- 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
- Effective parenting capacity assessment: Key issues
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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. - Family preservation literature review
- Neglect: key intervention strategies
- Neglect: key issues
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Parental alcohol misuse and the impact on children
Evidence suggests alcohol and other substance misuse is a significant concern in a large proportion of child protection cases. The complexity of these families makes it difficult to determine the extent to which alcohol misuse presents a risk to children, thus highlighting the importance of a thorough, sensitive assessment process.
- Parenting capacity assessment: improving decision-making
- Parental empathy and child maltreatment
- Parental mental health and its impact on children
- 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
