Understanding System Change in Child Protection and Welfare

This book provides an account of the experience of a multifaceted system-change programme to strengthen the capacity of Ireland's statutory child protection and welfare agency in the areas of prevention, early intervention and family support.
Many jurisdictions globally are involved in system change processes focused on increasing investment in services that seek to prevent children's entry into child protection and welfare systems, through early intervention, greater support to families, and an increased emphasis on rights and participation. Based on a four-year in-depth study by a team of University-based researchers, this text adds to the emerging knowledge-base on developing, implementing and evaluating system change in child protection and welfare. Study methodological approaches were wide ranging and involved a number of key stakeholders including children, parents, social workers and social care workers, service managers, agency leaders and policy makers. Since the change process involved an agency-university partnership encompassing design, technical support and evaluation, the book also contributes to understandings of the potential and limits of such partnerships in the child protection and welfare field. Uniquely, the book gives voice to the experience of both agency personnel and academic in the accounts provided.
It will be of interest to all scholars, students and practitioners in the areas of child protection and welfare.

Product details

• Authors: John Devaney Canavan
• Assisted by: John Canavan (Editor), Carmel Devaney (Editor), Caroline McGregor (Editor), Aileen Shaw (Editor), Canavan John (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.05.2023
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work
• EAN: 9780367706821
• ISBN: 978-0-367-70682-1
• Pages: 162
• Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SELF-HELP / Abuse, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Sociology: family & relationships, PP, Coping with personal problems, Social welfare and social services, Violence in society, Age groups: children, Sociology: family and relationships, Child Protection, Coping with / advice about abuse, Public Engagement, youth participation, Literature Review, family support, participatory research methods, family support services, early intervention strategies, agency-university collaboration, child welfare reform, social care evaluation, prevention in statutory child services, Child Welfare Agencies, isf, children's participation, Work Package, Atlantic Philanthropies, Kirkpatrick Model, High Level Policy Statement, Parental Participation Programmes, System Change Initiatives, Pre-training Questionnaire, Family Research Centre, Public Awareness Activity, Commissioning Framework, Flexible Research Methods, Youth Participation Programme