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Partners for protection : a future direction for child protection?
Author(s) -
Hill Stephanie
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
child abuse review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-0852
pISSN - 0952-9136
DOI - 10.1002/car.907
Subject(s) - child protection , service (business) , psychology , child sexual abuse , value (mathematics) , relation (database) , sexual abuse , criminology , developmental psychology , medicine , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , nursing , business , medical emergency , computer science , marketing , database , machine learning
The development of an innovative group working with female, non‐abusing carers is described. Part educational and part therapeutic, it sits squarely within child protection procedures and forms part of an interagency approach to protecting children from sexual abuse. Group processes are described and difficulties are explored, including those experienced by the women themselves in relation to child protection procedures. Current service approaches and attitudes may have potentially adverse consequences for the ultimate aim of child protection and these are considered together with a discussion of the value of alternative approaches. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.