Being child-centred: Factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision-making in child protection

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Bastian, Carmela ORCID: 0000-0002-6982-4804, Dunk-West, Priscilla ORCID: 0000-0002-5086-8196 and Wendt, Sarah ORCID: 0000-0002-1006-0299 (2022) Being child-centred: Factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision-making in child protection. Child and Family Social Work, 27 (2). pp. 91-99. ISSN 1356-7500

Abstract

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study that focused on factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision-making that is child-centred. Appreciative inquiry informed the methodology that enabled four focus groups (n = 50) with child protection practitioners who worked with children and young people living out-of-home care. The study found that, firstly, child protection practitioners had clear conceptualizations of what child-centred practice means and, secondly, articulated how functioning teams, effective organizational structures and relationships were crucial to child-centred practice. The findings point to the importance of relationality in effective child-centred professional judgement and decision-making in child protection contexts.

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Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/49052
DOI 10.1111/cfs.12855
Official URL https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12855
Subjects Current > FOR (2020) Classification > 4409 Social work
Current > Division/Research > College of Arts and Education
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