How Ideas Shape Child Protection Services
Fundamental ideas are sometimes unspoken, but they channel our thinking.
Child protection
The Damaging Effects of Child Protection Policies
A new report spells out the dangers of a fearful risk-averse culture.
Power and Powerlessness
The dangers of ignoring complexities if we are to meet children’s needs
Safe Space
Using rituals to create safe relationships
Family Therapy and Family Life
The impact on victims of abuse where the family keeps it secret
Doctors in a Dilemma
Examinations need to be thorough before child abuse is alleged
Family Therapy is Not Out of Date
Making the abuser accountable while working with the whole family
It wasn’t me
Who would injure a child?
Children Abducted by the State for Adoption
Child protection interests and Government adoption policy have combined to take children from their parents.
Discipline
Described by the author as the disjointed rantings of a grumpy old git