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“I Know People Think I’m a Complete Pain in the Neck”: An Examination of the Introduction of Child Protection and “Safeguarding” in English Sport from the Perspective of National G...
Hartill, Mike; Lang, Melanie - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 4, pp. 606-627
included the requirement to appoint national “safeguarding lead officers”. Utilizing the theoretical framework of sociologist … Pierre Bourdieu, this paper considers the impact of “safeguarding and child protection” (SCP) within the English sports … establishment within sport. Utilizing data from qualitative interviews with nine national safeguarding lead officers (SLOs), the …
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Developing Child-Centered Social Policies: When Professionalism Takes Over
Hennum, Nicole - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 3, pp. 441-459
No nation today can be understood as being fully child-centered, but many are pursuing social policies heavily favoring children. The emphasis on individual rights and the growth of scientific knowledge underpinning many of these policies have led to the improvement of the lives of a great many...
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Protecting Children and Adolescents in Uruguay: Civil Society’s Role in Policy Reform
Risley, Amy - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 4, pp. 705-725
This article analyzes the advocacy efforts of civil societal actors in Uruguay who have sought to promote the rights of children. I discuss the strategies that members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) used to achieve a greater presence in debates leading to significant policy changes in...
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Child Protection and Vulnerable Families: Trends and Issues in the Australian Context
Fernandez, Elizabeth - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 4, pp. 785-808
jurisdictions following which some states have embarked on large scale reform of legislation and policy, to either strengthen the …
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Dealing with Risk in Child and Family Social Work: From an Anxious to a Reflexive Professional?
Vyvey, Eline; Roose, Rudi; Wilde, Lieselot De; Roets, Griet - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 4, pp. 758-770
The rhetoric of risk has become a prominent issue in the field of child and family social work. As a consequence, an emerging politics of fear has re-oriented this field towards managing, controlling, and securing social work practice against risk, rather than responding meaningfully to the...
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Child Protection Victims and the “Evil Institutions”
Nijnatten, Carolus van; Hopman, Marit; Knijn, Trudie - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 4, pp. 726-741
The Dutch child protection system has been the target of harsh criticism in recent decades. The legitimacy of child protection services seems to have eroded. In this article, we analyze this changing legitimacy of child protection against the background of declining parental authority and in...
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Who Owns Child Abuse?
Cradock, Gerald - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 4, pp. 854-870
Expectations of contemporary child protection apparatuses are strongly influenced by beliefs inherited from the nineteenth century child rescue movement. In particular, the belief that child abuse determination is obvious. However, this assumption fails to make a distinction between nineteenth...
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A Critical Examination of Child Protection Initiatives in Sport Contexts
Kerr, Gretchen; Stirling, Ashley; MacPherson, Ellen - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 4, pp. 742-757
With the broadening of focus on child maltreatment beyond intra-familial settings, there is growing awareness of occurrences of maltreatment within the sport context. Millions of children participate in organized sport annually, and despite a tendency to view sport as a context by which to...
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The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Dreaming of Child Safe Organisations?
Budiselik, William; Crawford, Frances; Chung, Donna - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 3, pp. 565-583
On 12 November 2012 the then Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced she was recommending to the Governor General the establishment of a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Following inquiries in Australia and elsewhere much is already known about...
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The Productive Uses of Conflict in Child Protection
Magnuson, Doug - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 4, pp. 672-686
Some child protection cases exemplify a certain kind of cooperative interdependence, a consequence of the ways in which practitioners and clients are entangled. Client and practitioner are “stuck” with each other and need each other to succeed. There is also an intrinsic power imbalance that...
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