Building a culture of respect and care for children
@DeborahMTNZ from the children’s charity Unicef says the government needs to provide parents with more advice and support to reduce the number of children being killed. Originally aired on Radio New...
View ArticleWelcome to the nightmare: Social work, child protection and the punishment of...
Nigel Parton’s (2014) recent study of the political context surrounding the ‘reform’ of child protection practice and policy in England contends that the state is pursuing an increasingly authoritarian...
View ArticleWorking with radicalisation risk – A redistribution of Orwellian pre-crime
This guest blog post is by Dr. Tony Stanley. Tony is the Principal Social Worker (PSW) for Tower Hamlets local authority, in London. Holding a small caseload, he has direct experience of working with...
View ArticleCan we put families back in the frame?
A guest post by Irene de Haan, lecturer in social work in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland and a registered social worker. Irene’s previous roles include Senior...
View ArticleSupporting an inquiry into abuse in state care
By Elizabeth Stanley Over the last few months, the NZ government has faced multiple demands for independent inquiries: to uncover alleged war crimes undertaken by NZ military forces against Afghani...
View ArticleAn independent inquiry is needed: Right here! Right now!
It is a cliché, of course, to point out that we inevitably repeat the mistakes of the past if we do not understand and learn from them. However, this does not make the sentiment any less true. The...
View ArticlePoverty and child protection revisited
The correlation between child maltreatment and poverty is no longer a state secret (Davidson, Bunting, Bywaters, Featherstone, & McCartan, 2017; Pelton, 2015), not that it was ever hidden from...
View ArticleChildren’s wellbeing or perpetuating handmaids?
A guest post by Eileen Joy From the moment Jacinda Ardern took office she made it clear that the wellbeing of children was one of her key priorities. Ardern established the Ministry for Child Poverty...
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