Journal article
Critical review of Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission Inquiry into abuse of children in foster care: Social work's contribution to reform
Australian Social Work, Vol.58(1), pp.86-99
2005
Abstract
This paper profiles Queensland's recent Crime and Misconduct Commission Inquiry into the abuse of children in foster care. The authors welcome the outcome as an opportunity to highlight the problems encountered by child protection jurisdictions in Australia and internationally, and they applaud some of the Inquiry's findings. However, the paper argues that the path to reform is hampered by insufficient accountability by government and management, and an inadequate challenge to the ideologies underpinning contemporary child protection policy and practice. The authors conclude with a call to value and assert social work's contribution to child rotection systems so as to vastly improve outcomes for children and families.
Details
- Title
- Critical review of Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission Inquiry into abuse of children in foster care: Social work's contribution to reform
- Authors
- Bob Lonne (Author) - University of QueenslandJane Thomson (Author) - James Cook University
- Publication details
- Australian Social Work, Vol.58(1), pp.86-99
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2005
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1447-0748.2005.00194.x
- ISSN
- 0312-407X
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449243502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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