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040 _aAFVC
100 _aGair, Susan
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245 _aGrandparents battle to be key stakeholders in protecting grandchildren
_cSusan Gair and Ines Zuchowski
260 _bAotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers,
_c2019
500 _aAotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2019, 31(1): 101-113
520 _aINTRODUCTION: Grandparents are increasingly involved in the care of grandchildren, including after child protection intervention. METHOD: A recent Australian qualitative research partnership explored how relationships between grandparents and their grandchildren could be optimised after child safety concerns. Interviews and focus groups were undertaken with 77 participants, including 51 grandparents, 12 parents, six foster carers and eight child and family workers. Emerging themes reported here focus on the role of grandparents and their perceptions of, and interactions with, the child protection system. FINDINGS: Overall, findings identify that grandparents wanted to help safeguard their grandchildren but many encountered an adversarial child protection system that left them feeling powerless, fearful and unimportant. Aboriginal participants reiterated that child protection workers needed to better understand how maintaining kinship networks provided a protective factor for Aboriginal children, and that grandparents were key stakeholders in their grandchildren’s lives. IMPLICATIONS: The findings from this study affirm the value and role of grandparents and highlight the need for implemented family-inclusive child protection practice within and beyond the Australian context. (Authors' abstract). Record #6255
650 _aCHILD ABUSE
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650 5 _aABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLES
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650 5 _aCHILD PROTECTION
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650 0 _aGRANDCHILDREN
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650 5 _aGRANDPARENTS
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650 5 _aINDIGENOUS PEOPLES
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650 5 _aINTERVENTION
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650 5 _aQUALITATIVE RESEARCH
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650 4 _aSOCIAL SERVICES
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650 _aIWI TAKETAKE
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651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
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700 _aZuchowski, Ines
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773 0 _tAotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2019, 31(1): 101-113
830 _aAotearoa New Zealand Social Work
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856 _uhttps://anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/article/view/543
942 _cARTICLE
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