“Suiting up”: Preparing workforces to take on the mantle of preventing child maltreatment from a public health perspective

IF 2.4 2区 社会学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES Children and Youth Services Review Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI:10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108029
Erica Russ , Louise Morley , Daryl Higgins , Maria Harries , Bob Lonne
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Internationally, particularly in anglophone countries, there are increasing calls for a new vision for child welfare involving significant shifts in service delivery from a statutory intervention focus to systems based on public health approaches. The impetus for change includes the rapidly growing demand for services, chronic workforce challenges, systemic inequities, systemic failings, disproportionate representation of disadvantaged groups, and poor outcomes for many children subject to child protection intervention. Research suggests that public health approaches, focusing on primary prevention and population-wide delivery of interventions, are more likely to support the safety and wellbeing of children and families across the community, reducing the escalation of risk and the need for statutory intervention. Despite this, the preparation of the child welfare workforces across health and social care sectors required to implement public health approaches, and implications of current workforce shortfalls for such a transition has received little attention. Drawing on the findings from a child welfare workforce study in Australia (Russ et al., 2022), this paper considers the workforce challenges present in current neo-liberal child protection systems and looks to what is needed to engage families and communities, ‘suit up’ and equip workforces for preparing for system reform to shift the dial from risk-oriented responses to the prevention of child maltreatment across the entire community.
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“穿好衣服”:从公共卫生的角度为工作人员承担起防止虐待儿童的重任做好准备
在国际上,特别是在英语国家,越来越多的人呼吁建立儿童福利的新愿景,包括将服务提供从法定干预重点转向基于公共卫生方法的系统。推动变革的因素包括:服务需求快速增长、劳动力面临长期挑战、系统性不平等、系统性失败、弱势群体的代表性不成比例,以及许多接受儿童保护干预的儿童结果不佳。研究表明,侧重于初级预防和在全民范围内提供干预措施的公共卫生办法更有可能支持整个社区儿童和家庭的安全和福祉,减少风险升级和法定干预的需要。尽管如此,在卫生和社会保健部门培养实施公共卫生办法所需的儿童福利工作人员,以及目前劳动力短缺对这种过渡的影响,却很少受到重视。根据澳大利亚儿童福利劳动力研究的结果(Russ等人,2022年),本文考虑了当前新自由主义儿童保护系统中存在的劳动力挑战,并着眼于让家庭和社区参与进来,“适应”和装备劳动力,为系统改革做准备,将以风险为导向的反应转向整个社区预防儿童虐待。
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期刊介绍: Children and Youth Services Review is an interdisciplinary forum for critical scholarship regarding service programs for children and youth. The journal will publish full-length articles, current research and policy notes, and book reviews.
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