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Accumulated Silence When “Passing the Buck”: Organisational Tensions in Child Welfare Investigations
Sweden’s child welfare services are characterised by intra-organisational specialisation and collaboration with Barnahus as a standard procedure in...
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Confronting Whiteness in Developmental Psychology: Impacts on Ethnic Minority Families in the Australian Child Welfare System
This chapter explores the dominance of Western theories of child development and its impact on child welfare practices for ethnic minority families...
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Policing Child Protection: Motivational Postures of Contesting Third Parties
Child protection reform has been difficult, despite evidence that practice should be more child-centred, respectful and responsively inclusive of...
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The Paradoxical Reality of Welfare Professionals: Encounters Between Welfare Professionals and Citizens Within Social Security in the Netherlands
Welfare professionals work with a paradoxical reality. They should treat all citizens the same, and at the same time they must act responsively in...
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Claim and Blame: How Welfare Law institutionalises Deservingness
This chapter argues that deservingness conceptualisations play a key part in rationalising welfare law, as they justify who can reasonably claim...
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Child First in the Criminal Courts
The very fact that children are tried and sentenced to punishment in the criminal courts is counter to the fundamental principles of Child First. In...
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Child First: Thinking Through the Implications for Policy and Practice
The chapter is divided into two sections: the first considers the significance of reconceptualising children who break the law as children first...
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What Is the Function of Welfare Law Today? Consequences of the Work-Line Policy
Welfare law has emerged from primarily giving rights to persons with sickness or disabilities or who are excluded from the labour market, to having a...
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Cheating the System? Punitive Attitudes Towards Rule-Breaking Welfare Claimants
This chapter repeats the analyses conducted in Chapter 7 , but this time with the focus on rule-breaking...
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Protecting Children: Childhood, Rights, and the Trafficked Child
This chapter serves as a foundation stone for the subsequent interrogation of the various international legal responses to the trafficking of...
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Challenges, Possibilities, and Tensions When Investigating Child Sexual Abuse Against Preschoolers
Investigating and adjudicating sexual abuse against young children is a difficult task for the criminal justice system. The current chapter focuses...
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The Hardening of Policies, Government Discourse, and Public Attitudes Towards Welfare Claimants
This chapter considers the long-term trends in legislation, government discourse, and public attitudes towards welfare claimants. Legislation appears...
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Children’s Health Matters in Custody Conflicts: Best Interests of the Child and Decisions on Health Matters
This chapter addresses conflicts of interest that might arise when there are ongoing custody disputes and, in particular, how legal instruments can...
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A Double Helix: The Intertwined History of the Marginalisation of Welfare Clients and Their Activist Lawyers and Advisers in the Transformation of the Welfare State in England and Wales
This chapter draws on four qualitative studies conducted in England from the mid-1990s to 2015, to trace the intertwined stories of the emergence,...