Weighing it up : family maintenance discourses in NGO child protection decision‐making in Aotearoa/New Zealand Emily Keddell
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ArticleSeries: Child & Family Social WorkPublication details: Wiley Online, 2014Subject(s): Online resources:
In: Child & Family Social Work, 2014, Advance online publicationSummary: This paper examines one of the major discourses used by social workers in decision reasoning in a non-governmental organization child protection context in Aotearoa/New Zealand: family maintenance. This study found that family maintenance as a concept was strongly privileged by social workers. This resulted in attempts to preserve families and created a hierarchy of preferred decision outcomes. (from the abstract)
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Child & Family Social Work, 2014, Advance online publication
This paper examines one of the major discourses used by social workers in decision reasoning in a non-governmental organization child protection context in Aotearoa/New Zealand: family maintenance. This study found that family maintenance as a concept was strongly privileged by social workers. This resulted in attempts to preserve families and created a hierarchy of preferred decision outcomes. (from the abstract)