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100			_aStanley, Tony _92144
245			_aRisky work : _bchild protection practice _cStanley, Tony
260			_aWellington _bMinistry of Social Development _c2007
300			_a15 p. ; computer file : PDF format (104Kb)
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520			_aThis article discusses risk discourses in the child protection system. The introduction of a differential response model to the New Zealand child protection system is an important social policy initiative. However, the differential response literature has yet to address the role that risk discourses play as organising and regulatory regimes in contemporary child protection work, and this paper addresses this gap. Child protection social work is strongly underpinned by discourses of risk, and this is best illustrated in the adoption of risk assessment tools that aim to assist the practices of risk assessment and its management. This paper traces the shifting and discursive functions of risk in child protection social work, and argues that Child, Youth and Family (CYF) social workers are negotiating a complex and increasingly pressured practice environment where difficult decisions can be legitimised through the use of risk discourses. The author's doctoral study (see Stanley, 2005), which considered risk discourses and statutory social work practice decisions, is drawn on to illustrate how social workers may inadvertently compromise the differential response system - a system where the discursive functions of risk are likely to remain central and regulatory. There is a danger that CYF social workers might construct their role within such a system as increasingly the assessor and manager of high risk. This paper advocates for social work training and supervision as forums where practitioners can consider and better understand these risk discourses.--AUTHOR'S ABSTRACT
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650	2	7	_2FVC _aCHILD PROTECTION _9118
650	2	7	_2FVC _aCHILD WELFARE _9124
650	2	4	_aRISK ASSESSMENT _9504
650	2	4	_aRISK MANAGEMENT _9506
650	2	7	_2FVC _aSOCIAL WORK PRACTICE _9562
650	2	7	_2FVC _aSOCIAL WORK _9560
651		4	_aNEW ZEALAND _92588
500			_aSocial Policy Journal of New Zealand, March 2007, 30: 1163-1177
773	0		_tSocial Policy Journal of New Zealand, March 2007, 30: 1163-1177
856	4		_uhttp://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/journals-and-magazines/social-policy-journal/spj30/30-risky-work-child-protection-practice-p163-177.html
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