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040 _aAFVC
100 _aYoung, Susan
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245 _a‘Warm eyes’, ‘warm breath’, ‘heart warmth’ :
_busing aroha (love) and warmth to reconceptualise and work towards best interests in child protection
_cSusan Young, Margaret McKenzie, Cecilie Omre, Liv Schjelderup and Shayne Walker
260 _bMDPI,
_c2020
500 _aSocial Sciences, 2020, 9(4): 54
520 _aThe attributes ‘warm eyes’, ‘breathe warm air’, ‘heart warmth’ and aroha (love) guide our work in child protection. These quotes are from a young person from the Change Factory 2020, a MFAMILY student in 2020 and Jan Erik Henricksen Key Note at the 4th International Indigenous Voices in Social Work Conference, Alta, Norway 2017 respectively, to describe the way young people and families want workers to be. We reflect on the child rights and family inclusion provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRoC), and the Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) legislation Children, Young Persons and their Families Act (1989), in contributing to the best interests of the child. We examine current events in our locations, Aotearoa New Zealand, Norway and Western Australia, as demonstrating that these joint principles are far from universally used in child protection practice. The sole use of Article 3 of the UNCRoC, in particular, often results in excluding families as legitimate stakeholders. In seeking to achieve the best interests of the child, we apply a practice framework to example vignettes. Here, we have added micro-practices to address the identified gaps in relationship building, engagement and enabling practices in working towards the practice of best interest (Authors' abstract). Record #8722
650 _aCHILDREN
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650 _aCHILDREN'S RIGHTS
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650 _aCHILD PROTECTION
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650 _aFAMILIES
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650 _aSOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
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650 4 _aSUPPORT SERVICES
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650 _aWELLBEING
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650 _aYOUNG PEOPLE
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651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
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651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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651 4 _aAUSTRALIA
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651 _aNORWAY
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700 _aMcKenzie, Margaret
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700 _aOmre, Cecilie
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700 _aSchjelderup, Liv
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700 _aWalker, Shayne
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773 0 _tSocial Sciences, 2020, 9(4): 54
830 _aSocial Sciences
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9040054
_zDOI: 10.3390/socsci9040054 (Open access)
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