Download or read book People Politics and Child Welfare in British Columbia written by Leslie T. Foster and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia traces the evolution of policies and programs intended to protect children in BC from neglect and abuse. Analyzing this evolution reveals that child protection policy and practice has reflected the priorities of politicians and public servants in power. With few exceptions, efforts to establish effective programs have focused on structural arrangements, staffing responsibilities, and rules to regulate the practice of child welfare workers. Contributors to this book conclude that these attempts have been unsuccessful thus far because they have failed to address the impact of poverty on clients. The need to respect the cultural traditions and values of First Nations clients has also been ignored. Effective services require recognizing and remedying poverty's impact, establishing community control over services, and developing a radically different approach to the day-to-day practice of child welfare workers. People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia provides a crucial assessment of the state of child welfare in the province. Practitioners, scholars, and students in social work, child and youth care, education, and other human-service professions will find this book particularly important.
Download or read book Protecting Our Children Supporting Our Families written by British Columbia. Ministry of Social Services and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Governance Structure of Child Welfare Services in British Columbia written by Thorau, Kim and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the British Columbia Child Welfare Survey written by Canadian Welfare Council and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Columbia s Welfare written by British Columbia. Branch of Social Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Columbia s Child Youth and Family Serving System Recommendations for Change written by British Columbia. Ministry for Children and Families and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child welfare, accountability, responsibility.
Download or read book BC Children and Youth Review written by E. N. Hughes and published by British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family Development. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is an independent review of British Columbia's child protection system. It includes recommendations to improve: monitoring and public reporting of the government's performance in protecting and providing services for children and youth in British Columbia; advocacy for children and youth; the system for review of child deaths; and the public reporting of child death reviews to ensure that it balances the need for public accountability with the privacy interests of the families and others involved. Information is included on the unique situation of Aboriginal children and families in British Columbia's child welfare system. The safety and well-being of B.C.'s children, youth and families are at the centre of this report.
Download or read book Child Welfare Contracted Services in British Columbia Final Report Issue Identification and Discussion Paper with Recommendations written by Robert A. Whitelaw and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma written by Lisa Pasolli and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century, child care policy in British Columbia matured in the shadow of a political uneasiness with working motherhood. Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma examines how ideas about motherhood, paid work, and social welfare influenced universal child care discussions and consistently pushed access to child care to the margins of BC’s social policy agenda. Charting the growth of the child care movement in this province, Lisa Pasolli examines the arrival of Vancouver’s first crèche in 1912, the teetering steps forward during the debates of the interwar years, the development of provincial child care policy, the rebellious advancements of second-wave feminists in the 1960s and 1970s, and the maturation of provincial and national child care politics since the mid-70s. In addition to revealing much about historical attitudes toward women’s roles, Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma celebrates the efforts of mothers and advocates who, for decades, have lobbied for child care as a central part of women’s rights as workers, parents, and citizens.
Download or read book Child Protection Your Role as a Relative written by British Columbia. Ministry for Children and Families and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Changes written by Community Panel, Family and Children's Services Legislation Review in British Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children Young People and Care written by John Horton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very notions of childhood and youth are intimately connected to contemporary norms, practices and spaces of care, caring and care-giving. The provision of care is widely figured as both the primary responsibility of parents, carers and practitioners who work with children and young people, and the primary factor in shaping children and young people’s development, education, socialisation, wellbeing and contentment. However, children and young people themselves are rarely figured as key actors in the provision of care. An overwhelming presumption that children and young people are to be cared for has effectively marginalised their agency and responsibilities as carers, or in relation to practices and spaces of care. Bringing together a significant array of multidisciplinary work on children, young people and families, this collection draws together new research on the diverse lives and experiences of children and young people as carers, as cared for, and in relation to spaces and institutions of care. It is the first collection specifically devoted to the subject of care in relation to childhood and youth. As such, the book will be a key resource for academics, practitioners and students seeking leading-edge empirical and conceptual material on this topic.
Download or read book Challenge of Child Welfare written by Kenneth L. Levitt and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I think this book, in assembling the views of a distinguished group of professionals, can have a profound effect on child welfare theory and practice. These practitioners, critics and academics have much to say. I for one am grateful that their views are now conveniently available to all of us in this book.' -- from the foreword by Thomas R. Berger, Chairman, the British Columbia Royal Commission on Family and Children's Law The first Canadian text on child welfare, this work examines a number of issues which represent the state of the art of child welfare in Canada. Among the contributors are practitioners as well as academics from the fields of social work, child care, law and medicine. Important government studies and reports in the 1970's did much to define existing problems in child welfare and to provide directions for their solutions. The developments and research reported in this book add to their findings. Several main themes emerge in the book -- one being the lack of standardization of child welfare policy and practice in Canada since each province has its own regulations and policies. Other concerns common to many of the authors are the dismantling of social service programmes as a result of the current recession and the need for greater cooperation with the native Indian leadership in regard to the provision of child welfare services to the Indian community. Another important theme touched on by several authors concerns children in the care of welfare agencies. They discuss how adequate the range and quality of services are and how the effect of these services can be measured. The final theme centers on prevention and the early identification of families whose children may be at risk without certain support services. The point of view which transcends all the contributions supports an institutional approach, where a range of services is available to families to choose from, as opposed to the residual approach which regards government services as the last resort. While it is the latter view that is prevalent in Canda today, the authors argue that this represents a penny wise but pound foolish approach not only to child welfare but also to the broader field of social welfare.
Download or read book Exploration of Decision Making Among Child Welfare Social Workers in British Columbia written by Anne Marie Clayton and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Doctoral dissertation studying the lived experience of decision making by child welfare social workers in British Columbia, Canada. Through personal interviews with eight social workers currently employed by the province of British Columbia, who each had more than ten years of experience, information was collected about decision making in both crisis and non-crisis situations. The participants revealed that, contrary to the literature, they used intuition based on their experience and expertise in the field of social work as a supplement to rational decision-making processes in both situations. This has implications for future research and for social work leadership. The field of social work has been moving towards decision aids and structured decision-making tools in an attempt to standardize social work decision- making. The role of intuition based on practice experience needs to be addressed by research on decision making and the practice of child welfare social work.
Download or read book Who Protected Him written by Mary Ellen Turpel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At its essence, a child welfare system should protect society's most vulnerable children from abuse and neglect and fill the role of "prudent parent" for the children it takes into care. This report details how British Columbia's child welfare system failed on both counts to fulfill these basic roles and it outlines the devastating effects that failure has had on the life of one Aboriginal child"--P. 3.
Download or read book Liberating Our Children Liberating Our Nations written by Community Panel, Family and Children's Services Legislation Review in British Columbia. Aboriginal Committee and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the Community Panel and its child protection legislation review were to ensure that legislation relating to the protection of children serves the best interests of all children and their families; to enable the public to discuss the role of child welfare; to inform the public about child protection issues in B.C.; and to ensure that legislation relating to Aboriginal children and families does not create impediments to Aboriginal communities assuming responsibility for their children and families in accordance with the aspirations of those communities. This document contains the report of the Community Panel.
Download or read book Protecting Aboriginal Children written by Christopher Walmsley and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1960s, large numbers of Aboriginal children in Canada were removed from their families by provincial child welfare services. Known as the "Sixties Scoop," the practice resulted in the destruction of individuals and the devastation of communities. Today, Aboriginal children comprise roughly half of the children in state care in Canada, but since the 1980s, bands and tribal councils have developed unique community-based child welfare services to better protect Aboriginal children. Protecting Aboriginal Children explores contemporary approaches to the well-being of Aboriginal children through interviews with practising social workers employed at Aboriginal child welfare organizations and the state child protection service in British Columbia. It places current practice in a socio-historical context, describes emerging practice in decolonizing communities, and identifies the effects of political and media controversy on social workers. While the dangerous, stressful, and political aspects of the work are not minimized, the creative and original practice developing outside the spotlight of media and government scrutiny are highlighted. This engaging book is the first to document emerging practice in Aboriginal communities and to describe child protection practice simultaneously from the point of view of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal social workers. Those working in child welfare or contemplating a career in child protection will find the book an insightful analysis of current practice thinking and experience. Aboriginal peoples with an interest in health and human services, as well as social work students, child welfare workers and administrators, and health, education, and human service professionals will find it particularly useful.
