About the blog I'm Sharon Vincent, a research fellow at CLiCP. In 2010, I was given the opportunity, via a Leverhulme Fellowship, to find out about child protection in Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada. This blog captures some of the
organisations, practices and policies I have come across. The views expressed in this blog represent those of the author only.
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March 3rd, 2011
I left Australia last month and am now in the United States. On March 3rd I visited the Child Welfare Research Center at the University of Berkeley http://cssr.berkeley.edu/research_units/cwsc/index.html
The Child Welfare Research Center undertake research on a variety of child welfare issues including adoption, case management, foster care, and welfare reform. I was really impressed by the Child Welfare Dynamic Report System http://cssr.berkeley.edu/ucb_childwelfare/ The California Child Welfare Performance Indicators Project is a collaborative venture between the University of California
…Read more → US: Child Welfare Research Center, University of California at Berkeley
November 4th, 2010
New Zealand: Visit to Safekids, a national child injury prevention service, and a Maori school to see how the service worked.
…Read more → New Zealand: Safe Kids New Zealand
October 18th, 2010
I met the director and deputy director of the Australian Centre for Child Protection at the University of South Australia www.unisa.ed.au/childprotection/ The Australian Centre for Child Protection is a national research centre working to develop evidence based approaches to the prevention and treatment of maltreatment. They focus on children at high risk and their priority areas include:
Professional education and workforce development Indigenous child protection and well-being Translating child protection research into policy and practice Engaging with vulnerable children to
…Read more → Australia: The Australian Centre for Child Protection
October 7th, 2010
New South Wales new 5 year plan, ‘Keeping them Safe: a shared approach to child well being’. Plus, NSW’s definition and working tool for assessing risk of significant harm.
…Read more → Australia: Child Protection Policy New South Wales
October 5th, 2010
Australian Benevolent Society’s work on introducing a resilience framework across their organisation and are now looking at how it has been done.
…Read more → Australia: Benevolent Society and operationalising resilience
September 15th, 2010
Information about AIFS and Australia’s clearing houses, in particular the National Child Protection Clearing House
…Read more → Australia: The Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) and National Child Protection Clearing House (NCPC)
September 9th, 2010
I attended a child protection breakfast hosted by the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) www.napcan.org.au as part of Child Protection Week. There were presentations from Bernie Geary, the Children’s Safety Commissioner in Victoria and Robyn Miller, Lead Practitioner in the Department of Human Services. Robyn referred to a publication her department produces on examples of good practice in children’s services. This is the 2010 publication:
Good practice guide: statewide snapshot 2010 http://www.cyf.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/489823/DHS-good-practice-2010.pdf – PDF 1.4 MB
It was refreshing to hear that
…Read more → Australia: NAPCAN Child Protection Week
September 8th, 2010
I attended a public lecture by Professor Marianne Berry ‘Current trends in child abuse and neglect in the United States: What might Australians learn and disregard from the evidence?’ hosted by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Professor Berry was recently appointed as Director of the Australian Centre for Child Protection at the University of South Australia. The main focus of the lecture was what, if anything, Australia can learn from the US but much of what Marianne said, for example, about engagement with vulnerable families would also
…Read more → Australia: Lecture by Professor Marianne Berry, Director of the Australian Centre for Child Protection
September 1st, 2010
Meeting with Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia, Sept 10
…Read more → Australia: Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia
August 31st, 2010
Welcome and introduction to Sharon Vincent’s blog.
…Read more → Welcome
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