All these elevated risks pose significant challenges to the way child protection services (CPSs) can contend with protecting children from maltreatment during COVID-19. As seen in the figure, there are implications to the acute phase of the viral infection, and then when lockdowns and ...
These are: definitional understandings of domestic violence and child abuse; child protection legislative changes, including mandatory reporting and domestic violence as a child-at-risk category; and the NSW child protection statutory authority's response to domestic violence. The interplay between these...
In a large longitudinal sample of children (n = 91,631) representative of the NSW population, we found that prior contact with child protection services was associated with a higher incidence of first police contact for any reason, with the strongest effects evident for contact with police as ...
(APS, 2007; p.15), and mandating psychologists to report, only duplicates what’s stated in standard A.5.2. This paper will focus on mandatory reporting laws within Australian States and Territories and that mandatory reporting should not be a legal requirement of the practicing…show more ...
Recently, child protection data for 2003–2004 has been released. This provides an opportunity to re-examine some child protection issues and the effectiveness of mandatory reporting 5 years on. These have been tumultuous years. Each state and territory has held major inquiries into this area of ...
(1999). Abuse of children and abuse of animals: Using the links to inform child assessment and protection. In F. R. Ascione, & P. Arkow (Eds.) Child abuse, domestic violence, and animal abuse: Linking the circles of compassion for prevention and intervention. West Lafayette, Indiana: ...
There is growing recognition internationally of the need to identify women with risk factors for poor perinatal mental health in pregnancy and following birth. In the state of New South Wales, Australia the Supporting Families Early policy provides a fra
The authors conducted a project analysing data collected by social workers in the course of practice, recorded on a Mandatory Reporter Guide on-line tool, introduced with the 'Keep the Safe' policy. The audit indicated that the changed criteria for reporting to the statutory child protection ...
Of the 39 court files analysed 36 % of the families were reported to child protection prenatally and 64 % were reported postnatally. One in five infants were removed into care directly from the maternity ward with the average age of removal being 4.9 months. The main child protection concerns...
Both groups of professionals have indicated that they are aware of their mandatory reporting role, but few are familiar with the content and the language of the law (Feng et al., submitted for publication, Feng and Levine, 2005). Child protection legislation and protocols are complex and vague...