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Response to: ‘ New Directions in child protection and family support in Western Australia: a policy initiative to re‐focus child welfare practice’
Author(s) -
McCallum Sharon,
Eades Di
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
child and family social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-2206
pISSN - 1356-7500
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2206.2001.00207.x
Subject(s) - child protection , welfare , social work , focus (optics) , work (physics) , social policy , political science , sociology , psychology , law , engineering , physics , mechanical engineering , optics
This paper is a response to ‘ New Directions in child protection and family support in Western Australia: a policy initiative to re‐focus child welfare practice’, written by Nigel Parton and Richard Mathews and published in Volume 6(2) of Child and Family Social Work . Parton and Mathews’ paper describes the policy and provides an analysis of its impact on child protection practice. They find the policy to have been successful on a number of different dimensions. This paper subjects their findings to a broader lens of analysis and arrives at conclusions somewhat different to those of the authors.