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040 _aAFVC
100 _aKeddell, Emily
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245 _aThe perspectives of community-based practitioners on preventing baby removals :
_baddressing legitimate and illegitimate factors
_cEmily Keddell, Kerri Cleaver and Luke Fitzmaurice
260 _bElsevier,
_c2021
500 _aChildren and Youth Services Review, 2021, First published online, 25 June 2021
520 _aThe removal of babies at or near birth is a significant health, ethical, personal and social justice issue affecting many families globally. While sometimes required, it can carry a risk of harm for babies, their families and communities, as well as refracting social inequities relating to class, gender, ethnicity, location and disability. This article reports the qualitative perceptions of community-based social workers in Aotearoa New Zealand about how to prevent baby removals. Preventing removal requires attention to the factors impacting on parenting capacity as well as factors relating to the decision-making ecology environment of child protection systems. Practitioner attributes of a whānau centred practice orientation, a focus on capability and advocacy, values of respect, and recognition of commitment to children, contributed to reducing the escalation of child protection intervention. An ability to mediate between the world of the child protection agency and the family, and recognising emotional responses were practitioner skills that also contributed to prevention. Organisational factors that helped prevent removal were the provision of flexible, intensive, holistic and accessible services; strategic service coordination between statutory and community-based services; and support offered early in the pregnancy by parenting-experienced practitioners. Family issues of poverty, drug use and intimate partner violence were exacerbated in families who were socially isolated, requiring community and social network development. In addition to these preventive factors, there were also decision ecology factors that increased the risk of removal. These included organisational factors such as poor relationships between the statutory agency and community agencies, lack of the right types of service provision, and the tendency for reliance on recorded family histories in assessment leading to superficial and risk -averse judgements. Unrealistic expectations and changing expectations further estranged families from services and reduced the chances of avoiding removal. These perverse system factors were especially pernicious for those populations with heightened chances of system contact, particularly Māori and people living in poverty, exacerbating institutionalised racism. Implications are critically analysed with reference to the concept of legitimacy. Learn more on the Prevention Project website - follow the link. Record #7483
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 _tChildren and Youth Services Review, 2021, First published online, 25 June 2021
830 _aChildren and Youth Services Review
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106126
_yDOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106126
856 _uhttps://blogs.otago.ac.nz/prevention/
_yPrevention Project website
942 _2ddc
_cARTICLE