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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| author | Hendrick, Antonia Young, S. |
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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 |