Errors and Mistakes in Child Protection: International Discourses, Approaches and Strategies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1447350707 ISBN 13: 9781447350705

Publisher: Policy Press, 2020

Synopsis

This cross-national study provides a comparative analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes and approaches to dealing with them in child protection practice, using research and knowledge from eleven 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, how practice and policy subsequently change and the lessons that we can learn.

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About the Authors

Kay Biesel is Professor of Child and Youth Services, focusing on child protection, at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.

Marit Skivenes is Professor at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory and the Director of Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism at the University of Bergen.

Tarja Pösö is Professor in Social Work at Tampere University.

Fred Powell served as Professor of Social Policy and founding Head of the School of Applied Social Studies at UCC for 25 years, Dean of Social Science and latterly Student Ombudsman. He received the Richard Titmuss Book Award in 2018.

Judith Masson is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bristol.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447350707
• ISBN 13: 9781447350705
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Biesel Kay, Masson Judith, Parton Nigel, Poso Tarja