Assessment and decision-making in child maltreatment cases is difficult. Practitioners face
many uncertainties and obstacles during their assessment and decision-making process …

Objective This article describes the results of a scoping review to better understand child
welfare professionals' and service users'(families' and children's) perspectives on and …

Public trust towards social workers is essential for legitimacy and accessibility of the social
services, as well as for help-seeking behaviour. However, research on public trust towards …

Background Few studies have investigated whether Child Protective Services (CPS) contact
influences child wellbeing, independent of underlying maltreatment and not considered as a …

Child welfare policy and practice increasingly emphasize the use of strength-based practice
in concert with efforts to reduce identified risks to child safety. Compared with strategies for …

Building on the findings from the national study of mothers in recurrent care proceedings in
England, this paper proposes that the concepts of complex trauma and epistemic trust may …

Objective This article describes empirical results of the views of child protection workers,
parents and children along different dimensions including interpretation of engagement …

Pregnant, opioid-using women represent a challenge to healthcare providers attempting to
engage them in prenatal and substance abuse services. Limited, primarily international …

The literature suggests that residential care for children and youth is associated with a
negative social image harmful to their wellbeing. However, the social images of children and …

Child welfare workers are challenged on a daily basis to achieve the goals of promoting
child safety, permanency, and well-being. To achieve these goals, system leaders in two …