It takes a village to protect a child

This article presents a case for taking a concerted community approach to protecting children. It does this through acknowledging that: child protection is indeed ‘everyone’s business’ (Landgren, 2005) and extending this into promoting a collective response rather than relying solely on child protec...

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Main Authors: Hendrick, Antonia, Young, S.
Other Authors: Jan Duke
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Social Workers Registration Board 2013
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Online Access:http://www.swrb.govt.nz/news-and-publications/conference-material
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46577
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description This article presents a case for taking a concerted community approach to protecting children. It does this through acknowledging that: child protection is indeed ‘everyone’s business’ (Landgren, 2005) and extending this into promoting a collective response rather than relying solely on child protection authorities to work with individual families; revisiting the ‘best interests’ criterion of child rights in protecting children; reiterating the argument (Young, McKenzie, Omre, Schjelderup, & Walker, 2014) for a much more nuanced understanding of, and response to, keeping children safe; and presenting some descriptions and analyses of community approaches to protecting children.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-465772023-02-13T08:01:35Z It takes a village to protect a child Hendrick, Antonia Young, S. Jan Duke Mark Henrickson Liz Beddoe developmental child protection community development community child protection child rights This article presents a case for taking a concerted community approach to protecting children. It does this through acknowledging that: child protection is indeed ‘everyone’s business’ (Landgren, 2005) and extending this into promoting a collective response rather than relying solely on child protection authorities to work with individual families; revisiting the ‘best interests’ criterion of child rights in protecting children; reiterating the argument (Young, McKenzie, Omre, Schjelderup, & Walker, 2014) for a much more nuanced understanding of, and response to, keeping children safe; and presenting some descriptions and analyses of community approaches to protecting children. 2013 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46577 http://www.swrb.govt.nz/news-and-publications/conference-material Social Workers Registration Board fulltext
spellingShingle developmental child protection
community development
community child protection
child rights
Hendrick, Antonia
Young, S.
It takes a village to protect a child
title It takes a village to protect a child
title_full It takes a village to protect a child
title_fullStr It takes a village to protect a child
title_full_unstemmed It takes a village to protect a child
title_short It takes a village to protect a child
title_sort it takes a village to protect a child
topic developmental child protection
community development
community child protection
child rights
url http://www.swrb.govt.nz/news-and-publications/conference-material
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46577