Risk, Well-Being, and Paramountcy in Child Protection: The Need for Transformation

Child and Youth Care Quarterly - Tập 31 - Trang 233-255
James P. Anglin1
1School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

Tóm tắt

The social construction of child welfare is explored in order to shed light on contemporary child welfare thinking, policy, and practice. Two primary influences, legal discourse and child welfare science, are seen to depend upon and shape one another. The current dominance of a risk management approach in child protection needs to be understood in the context of the evolution of the “risk society,” and the impacts of a move to the paramountcy of the safety and well-being of the child are examined with a focus on the recent British Columbia experience. It is suggested that attempts to achieve a better balance of ensuring the safety of the child, meeting the child's developmental needs, and supporting family functioning need to challenge simplistic sociopolitical and mass media perspectives, and promising initiatives are currently being cultivated on the margins of the mainstream systems.

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Child and Youth Care Quarterly

Tập 31

233-255

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