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040 _aAFVC
100 _aKeddell, Emily
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245 _aExperiences of baby removal prevention :
_ba collective case study of mothers and community-based workers
_cEmily Keddell, Kerri Cleaver and Luke Fitzmaurice
260 _bSage,
_c2022
500 _aQualitative Social Work, 2022, First published online, 2 February 2022
520 _aThe removal of a baby at birth is a significant intervention in family life. Avoiding removal requires attention to all levels of the family social ecology. Utilising a collective case study approach, and a critical realist epistemology, this project explores the experiences of three women who have avoided removal, and their community-based workers. Key themes are the necessity of intensive, ecological and relational service provision; and the mediation role of the community-based worker between women and the statutory child protection service. Services that were ‘by Māori for Māori’ were reported as most likely to maintain these fragile relationships. Effective services were holistic and intensive, drew on parent’s own motivation of care for children, and focussed on stress reduction and creating ‘friend-like’ relationships. The mediation role of community workers reflected their instrumental position, and included mediating risk perceptions between the statutory agency and women. or In the instance of disability, mediation included direct, collective advocacy to challenge risk perceptions utilising children’s rights concepts and a social model of disability. The implications for policy and practice are: to improve equitable access to intensive services based on an ecological theory of change and with an emphasis on relational practice; improve provision of by Māori, for Māori services; and require services to take a rights-based approach to both mothers with disabilities and their children. It also highlights the important role of community-based workers to advocate, support change and improve coordination between families and the statutory child protection system. Learn more on the Prevention Project website - follow the link. Record #7482
610 _aOranga Tamariki, Ministry for Children
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650 _aADVOCACY
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650 _aCHILD PROTECTION
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650 _aCHILD WELFARE
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650 _aCHILDREN'S RIGHTS
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650 _aDISABLED PEOPLE
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650 _aFAMILIES
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650 _aINFANTS
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650 _aINTERVENTION
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650 _aMĀORI
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650 _aMOTHERS
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650 _aPARENTING
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650 _aQUALITATIVE RESEARCH
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650 4 _aSOCIAL SERVICES
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650 _aSOCIAL WORK
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650 4 _aSUPPORT SERVICES
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650 _aMĀMĀ
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650 _aMĀTUA
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650 _aPĒPĒ
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650 _aTAMARIKI
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650 _aTOKO I TE ORA
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650 _aTURE WHĀNAU
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650 _aWHĀNAU
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651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
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700 _aCleaver, Kerri
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700 _aFitzmaurice, Luke
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773 0 _tQualitative Social Work, 2022, First published online, 2 February 2022
830 _aQualitative Social Work
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856 _zDOI: 10.1177/14733250211058178
_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/14733250211058178
856 _uhttps://preventionprojectwhanau.squarespace.com/
_yPrevention Project website
942 _2ddc
_cARTICLE