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In: SAGE course companions
Decision‐making under uncertainty in child protection: Creating a just and learning culture
In: Child & family social work, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 123-130
ISSN: 1365-2206
AbstractThe argument is made for having a positive error culture in child protection to improve decision‐making and risk management. This requires organizations to accept that mistakes are likely and to treat them as opportunities for learning and improving. In contrast, in many organizations, a punitive reaction to errors leads to workers hiding them and developing a defensive approach to their practice with children and families. The safety management literature has shown how human error is generally not simply due to a "bad apple" but made more or less likely by the work context that helps or hinders good performance. Improving safety requires learning about the weaknesses in the organization that contribute to poor performance. To create a learning culture, people need to feel that when they talk about mistakes or weak practice, there will be a constructive response from their organization. One aspect of reducing the blame culture is to develop a shared understanding of how practice will be judged and how those appraising practice will avoid the hindsight bias. To facilitate a positive error culture, a set of risk principles are presented that offer a set of criteria by which practice should be appraised.
Eileen Gambrill, Propaganda in the Helping Professions
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 12, Heft 6, S. 859-861
ISSN: 1741-3117
Reforming Child Protection
In: Child & family social work, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 384-385
ISSN: 1365-2206
Managing Societal and Institutional Risk in Child Protection
In: Risk analysis: an international journal, Band 29, Heft 7, S. 1015-1023
ISSN: 1539-6924
Public sector services have been reshaped by two interacting factors: the growing dominance of risk management and the growing demands for transparency and accountability. For the caring professions, these have provoked radical reform. Using the child protection service as a case study, this article explores the impact of the changes on a service that deals with conflicting risks and has a poorly articulated knowledge base. Drawing on Rothstein et al.'s distinction between societal and institutional risks, it is argued that difficulties in managing societal risks are creating serious institutional risks. The latter are then being prioritized in the way the system operates. The preoccupation with such risks has been translated into concerted efforts to formalize the work of front line practitioners to make it transparent and auditable. Although done, in part, with the good intention of spreading good practice standards, this formalization has gone beyond the evidenced knowledge base to the extent that it is creating a new picture of "good practice" that omits significant dimensions of work and is distinct from measures of children's safety or welfare. Moreover, the process of formalization acts as an impediment to knowledge development in disciplines where such learning is urgently needed.
Confidentiality in a Preventive Child Welfare System
In: Ethics and social welfare, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 41-55
ISSN: 1749-6543
Improving practice: Child protection as a systems problem
In: Children and youth services review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 375-391
ISSN: 0190-7409
A simpler way to understand the results of risk assessment instruments
In: Children and youth services review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, Band 26, Heft 9, S. 873-883
ISSN: 0190-7409
State Regulation of Parenting
In: The political quarterly, Band 75, Heft 2, S. 180-184
ISSN: 1467-923X
State Regulation of Parenting
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 75, Heft 2, S. 180-184
ISSN: 0032-3179
Review of Children, Family and the State: Decision-making and Child Participation. Nigel Thomas. Reviewed by Eileen Munro
In: Journal of sociology & social welfare, Band 29, Heft 4
ISSN: 1949-7652
The Role of Theory in Social Work Research: A Further Contribution to the Debate
In: Journal of social work education: JSWE, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 461-470
ISSN: 2163-5811
Response to "a required mind-set for child protection practice: comments on Munro" (1999)
In: Child abuse & neglect: the international journal ; official journal of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 447
ISSN: 1873-7757
Common errors of reasoning in child protection work
In: Child abuse & neglect: the international journal ; official journal of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Band 23, Heft 8, S. 745-758
ISSN: 1873-7757