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Responding to the call: a conceptual model for kinship care assessment
Author(s) -
O'Brien Valerie
Publication year - 2014
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 - 10.1111/cfs.12025
Subject(s) - kinship , kinship care , foster care , perspective (graphical) , legislature , conceptual model , child protection , service (business) , welfare , service delivery framework , work (physics) , conceptual framework , public relations , nursing , psychology , sociology , medicine , political science , business , computer science , engineering , social science , law , mechanical engineering , marketing , database , artificial intelligence
Kinship care has become an important care option worldwide. However, in many jurisdictions, child welfare services use traditional foster care assessment systems. The assessment of the kinship home poses particular challenges. The initial assessment of the kinship home, enabling emergency placements, provides a child‐centred perspective. However, agencies frequently fail to meet the designated time frame for completion of the assessment/approval process. Such failures require the development of different conceptual models for kinship care service delivery, especially for assessments. This paper builds on earlier work on assessment models, drawing on the international literature and the author's involvement and research on kinship care in I reland. The usability of the proposed model needs to be evaluated across different legislative, policy and practice contexts internationally.