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Signs of Safety: The View from Early Help
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Roy, Jessica – Child Care in Practice, 2022
Signs of Safety is a strengths-based approach to work with children and families where there are concerns about abuse or neglect. Signs of Safety is widely used in the UK and internationally, and there is a growing range of empirical research exploring its use within statutory children's social work. However, there is little research exploring…
Descriptors: Safety, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Family Needs
A Review of Children First and Keeping Safe Training in Ireland: Implications for the Future
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Devaney, Carmel; McGregor, Caroline – Child Care in Practice, 2016
The aim of this paper is to report on the evaluation of two standardised training programmes provided by the statutory children and family service in the Republic of Ireland in 2012. This involved an evaluation of Children First Basic Level Training, which was delivered to all staff employed in the statutory services, and Keeping Safe, Basic Level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Training, Program Effectiveness
The Use of Mapping in Child Welfare Investigations: A Strength-Based Hybrid Intervention
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Lwin, Kristen; Versanov, Avi; Cheung, Connie; Goodman, Deborah; Andrews, Nancy – Child Care in Practice, 2014
To enhance strengths-based service, a large urban child welfare agency in Ontario, Canada implemented part of the Signs of Safety (SOS) model in 2010. SOS was created to engage families involved with the child welfare system, and is rooted in the beliefs of collaboration, strengths-based practice, and safety. The hybrid of the full SOS model…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Child Welfare, Foreign Countries, Child Safety
A Strengths-Based Approach to Supervised Visitation in Child Welfare
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Smith, Gabriel Tobin; Shapiro, Valerie B.; Sperry, Rachel Wagner; LeBuffe, Paul A. – Child Care in Practice, 2014
This article describes a strengths-based approach to supervised visitation within the child welfare system of the United States. Supervised visitation gives parents accused of abuse or neglect the opportunity to spend time with children temporarily removed from their care. Although supervised visitation has the potential to be a tool for promoting…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Parent Participation
Children's Rights and Youth Justice: 20 Years of No Progress
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Smith, Roger – Child Care in Practice, 2010
The adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1989 and its ratification by the UK government two years later came at a time of considerable progress in youth justice. The Convention itself set clear standards of treatment, in terms of both processes and disposals, which appeared at the time to provide positive…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Foreign Countries, Justice, Policy Analysis
Emergent Family Support Practices in a Context of Policy Churn: An Example from the Children's Fund
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Warren, Simon; Apostolov, Apostol; Broughton, Kevin; Evans, Ruth; MacNab, Natasha; Smith, Penny – Child Care in Practice, 2006
What might family support services look like in the reconfigured children and family services after the Children Act? This is the question this article attempts to explore by drawing on evidence from the National Evaluation of the Children's Fund in England. The article describes common features in two case-study sites that might indicate the…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Foreign Countries, Child Welfare, Prevention