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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Child protection system"”.
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An exploration of the efficacy of the Namibian child protection system in responding to violence against children
… UN Secretary General‘s Study on Violence against Children approached child protection systems from the perspectives of human rights, public health and child protection. A global agenda to protect children emphasised the urgency of country level action with targets for governments. The UNCRC and …
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ŠIAULIŲ APSKRITIES SAVIVALDYBIŲ VAIKO TEISIŲ APSAUGOS SKYRIŲ VEIKLOS ANALIZĖ /
The relevance of the analysis. Rights of the child protection system in Lithuania is still in the stage of infancy, because the rights of the child-driven system started to form only in 1993, when was established the Rights of the Child Protection Service, nowadays called the divisions of the …
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Racialization and the Mandatory Power of the State: How Racialized Minority People Encounter State Child Welfare Systems
… phenomenon of racial disproportionality within child welfare systems. It asks what explains the variation in interaction rates between racialized minority people and state child welfare systems. As the province with one of the highest proportions of racialized minority people, a decentralized …
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Creative art-based technologies for interagency working together for safeguarding children and young people
Children themselves rarely engage directly with the child protection system unless they are already referred into the system by a third party adult. New technologies have enabled children to communicate in different ways than previously. A guiding question for this thesis is whether one type of …
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Managing Fragmentation: A case study of an area child protection committee in a time of change.
… Specifically, the work focuses on the child protection system of England and Wales to examine the effect that New Public Management, and its accompanying tendency to fragment organisations into managerialised purchaser or provider units, has had on the established organisational …
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Child Maltreatment, Behavior Problems, And Neurocognition: Main And Mediation Effects
Child maltreatment, especially physical abuse, is highly prevalent in Mainland China and has been associated with childhood behavior problems. Nevertheless, pooled relationships between three types of child maltreatment (physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect) and childhood behavior problems …
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Beyond the Courtroom Door: Exploring the Feasibility of Child Protection Mediation in Ireland
In recent years, the Irish child protection and welfare system has witnessed an unprecedented level of increase in legislative and policy development. However, one area that remains relatively unexplored in Ireland is the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, such as mediation, in child …
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The developmental trajectory of delinquency among adolescent females
… on males and studies offending behaviors from childhood to adulthood (Farrington, 2010). Only very few studies focus on developmental trajectories of female delinquency during adolescence. Given that increasing numbers of girls appear in the juvenile justice system (e.g. Chesney-Lind & Shelden, …
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Understanding kinship care of children in Africa: a family environment or an alternative care option?
In Africa generally, orphaned and vulnerable children are traditionally cared for by their relatives or close family friends; this is an abiding practice even in contemporary times. This was historically considered to be a moral obligation binding on different relatives in different ways or at …
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A Fragmented System: Understanding Child Protection Decisions for Canadian Parents with Intellectual Disabilities
… are disproportionately represented in child protection investigations in Canada and around the world. In some cases, children are removed from mothers with intellectual disabilities soon after birth. Research has shown that parents’ intellectual disability status often plays a role in …
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Factors that influence the reporting of child sexual abuse amongst primary school teachers in South Africa: an application of the theory of planned behaviour
Child sexual abuse is a prevalent problem in South Africa – one in every three children is sexually abused before the age of 18. Sexually abused children have serious psychological, physical and social problems which cause further difficulties into adulthood. Most abusers are known to their victims …
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New views on how to stop the intergenerational transmission of maltreatment. Constructing a theory grounded in the perspective of care-experienced parents
Child maltreatment is a major issue, and it is considered a priority by public health policies around the world. Among the causes of abuse, mechanisms of intergenerational child maltreatment (ITCM) have become of central importance in research. However, although many studies have focused on this …
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GUARANTEE OF CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING THROUGH DEVELOPMENT OF AN EFFECTIVE FAMILY STRENGTHENING SYSTEM IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
In 2012, 10,887 children resided in state-run residential care institutions in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Out of them, more than 80 percent were children whose parents were alive and known to the authorities, but who have been deprived of parental rights. Institutionalization negatively impacts …