Child welfare

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Physical abuse and neglect are the most common forms of maltreatment among parents who use drugs (Chaffin, Kelleher and Hollenberg 1996 Locke and Newcomb 2003 Child Welfare Information Gateway 2004). 

The approach taken by practitioners in dealing with parental drug problems as they impact on child welfare and child protection forms Chapter 9. The nine focus groups convened were each made up of three or four practitioners (n=35). The focus groups were split evenly between health visitors, drug workers and social workers (three groups of each discipline). 

This chapter considers practitioner responses to parenting and child welfare in the context of drug problems. The increased vulnerabilities of these children and the statutory framework around child protection merits a closer consideration of the ways in which practitioners think about such cases. The key question that informs this discussion is why had so few of the children described in this study been the subject of investigation The interviews with parents, with their children and with grandparents, all indicated... 

Chase Goodman, C., Potts, M., Mayers Pasztor, E. and Scorzo, D. (2004) Grandmothers as kinship caregivers private arrangements compared to public child welfare oversight. Children and Youth Services Review 26, 287-305. 

Child Welfare Information Gateway (2004) Child Maltreatment 2002 Summary of Key Findings. 

Child Welfare League of America (1998) Alcohol and Other Drug Survey of State Child Welfare Agencies. Washington Child Welfare League of America. 

Harwin, J. and Forrester, D. (2002) Parental substance misuse and child welfare a study of social work with families in which parents misuse drugs or alcohol. London Interim Report for Nuffield Foundation. 

Kerwin, M. (2005) Collaboration between child welfare and substance abuse fields combined treatment programs for taoxhets. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 50, 7, 581-597. 

Kroll, B. and Taylor, A. (2003) Parental Substance Misuse and Child Welfare. London Jessica Kingsley Publishers. 

Lalayants, M. and Epstein, I. (2005) Evaluating multidisciplinary child abuse and neglect teams a research agenda. Child Welfare 84, 4, 433-458. 

O Flynn, M. (1999) The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 changing child welfare policy without addressing parental substance abuse. Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 16, 243-271. 

Semidei, Radel, L. and Nolan, C. (2001) Substance abuse and child welfare clear linkages and promising responses. Child Welfare League of America 80, 2, 109-128. 

Dahl, T. S. Child Welfare and Soctnl Defence. Oslo Universitetsforlagcl 1985. 

M. E, Mor-Barak, A. Levin, J. A. Nissly, C. J. Lane (2006), Why do they leave Modeling child welfare workers turnover intentions, (Children and Youth Services Yi viEW, 28,58-577. 

The story of how mothers came to exercise the rights of guardianship over their own children represents a key element in the unfolding of the Byzantine approach to child welfare. It also forms part of the process whereby the Christian emperors removed one by one the legal liabilities that women had suffered under the classical Roman legal system and the earlier laws of the individual Greek poleis. Moreover, it explains how, during the early Byzantine period, the term orphanos came to mean primarily children who had lost both parents. 

The Orphans of Byzantium Child Welfare in the Christian Empire was designed and composed in Dante with Centaur display type by Kachergis Book Design, Pittsboro, North Carolina and printed on sixty-pound Glatfelter Writers Offset Smooth and bound by Edwards Brothers, Inc., Lillington, North Carolina. 

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