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Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about current outcomes, indicators of success and failure, and best practices. This second edition of Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice has a special focus on Canadian child welfare and contains entirely new material on these important themes. The book highlights major developments in child welfare and shows how these inform directions taken in research, policy, and practice. The book includes new sections on Indigenous issues and best practices, and several of its chapters review efforts to increase supports for families in need. Contributions from new and international authors illustrate the endemic nature of child welfare challenges and how we can learn from these experiences. Contributors provide recommendations for promoting best practice and enhancing resilience among children and families. Closing chapters within each section and at the end of the book summarize key theoretical and practice issues along with recommendations to improve the research, policy, and practice continuum in child welfare. The challenge is to translate good research into policy and practice in ways that enhance the life chances of children who need our care and protection.

Jeunesse --- Child welfare --- Protection, assistance, etc. --- Recherche --- Research

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Que se passe-t-il lorsque des parents ne sont pas en mesure d'assurer des conditions adéquates au développement ou au bien-être de leur enfant ? Comment les autorités et services concernés agissent-ils ? Quels sont les difficultés, les obstacles ou les résistances - institutionnels ou privés ? Comment les différentes instances collaborent-elles dans ce domaine ? La protection de l'enfance doit faire face à diverses situations de mise en danger ; dans de telles circonstances, le code civil suisse oblige l'État à créer des conditions garantissant le bien-être de l'enfant. Or, cela ne se passe pas sans dilemme, sans hésitation ni doute. Une équipe de chercheurs issue du domaine travail social de la HES Lucerne et de la faculté de droit de l'Université de Genève s'est penchée sur ces questions dans le cadre du Programme National de Recherche (PNR-52), « L'enfance, la jeunesse et les relations entre générations dans une société en mutation ». Au moyen d'une étude sociologique, les auteurs comparent quatre dispositifs de mise en œuvre de la protection de l'enfance en Suisse alémanique et en Suisse romande. Ils mettent ainsi en lumière les effets des structures institutionnelles sur les procédures et sur la mise en place des mesures de protection. Chaque analyse est enrichie de regards critiques de praticiens de la protection de l'enfance. Combinant approches théorique et empirique, La protection de l'enfance : gestion de l'incertitude et du risque s'attache à analyser comment services sociaux et autorités de tutelles abordent les risques constitués par l'obligation d'agir dans une double incertitude : celle liée au développement de l'enfant et celle liée aux conséquences de l'intervention étatique dans la sphère familiale.

Child welfare --- Children --- Jeunesse --- Enfants --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Social conditions --- Protection, assistance, etc. --- Droit --- Conditions sociales --- Suisse --- Social Work & Social Policy --- jeunesse --- violence --- sociologie --- politiques publiques --- politiques sociales

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In 1991, the Government of Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring governments at all levels to ensure that Canadian laws and practices safeguard the rights of children. A Question of Commitment: Children's Rights in Canada is the first book to assess the extent to which Canada has fulfilled this commitment. The editors, R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell, contend that Canada has wavered in its commitment to the rights of children and is ambivalent in the political culture about the principle of children's rights. A Question of

Jeunesse --- Enfants --- Child welfare --- Children --- Children's rights --- Protection, assistance, etc. --- Politique gouvernementale --- Droits --- Government policy --- Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant --- Convention on the Rights of the Child --- Children's Rights --- Child Welfare --- Law --- Political Science

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Les incertitudes qui continuent de peser en France sur la définition d'une politique à l'égard de la dépendance des personnes âgées montrent tout l'intérêt de comparer notre situation à celle d'autres pays européens. La récente réforme instituant l'Allocation personnalisée d'autonomie qui, en élargissant les conditions d'accès semblait une réponse plus assurée, n'est pas pour autant une réponse stabilisée. Le processus est donc loin d'être achevé.

Soins --- protection, assistance, etc. --- Older people --- Old age assistance --- Personnes âgées --- Government policy --- Care --- Politique gouvernementale --- Political Science --- Public Administration --- Social Work --- Gerontology --- dépendance chez la personne âgée --- aide sociale --- politiques publiques --- politique de santé --- personne âgée --- protection sociale --- sociologie du care --- condition sociale

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The need for services that respond to the 'maltreatment' of children and to the struggles of families is at the core of social service systems in all developed nations. While these child and family welfare systems confront similar problems and incorporate common elements, there are substantial differences in philosophy, organization, and operation across international settings and models. In this new collection of essays, Nancy Freymond and Gary Cameron have brought together some of the finest international minds to provide an original and integrated discussion of child protection, family service, and community caring models of child and family welfare. The volume not only examines child protection and family service approaches within Western nations - including Canada, the United States, England, the Netherlands, France, and Sweden - it is also the first comparative study to give equal attention to Aboriginal community caring models in Canada and New Zealand. The comparisons made by the essays in this volume allow for a consideration of constructive and feasible innovations in child and family welfare and contribute to an enriched debate around each system. This book will be of great benefit to the field for many years to come.

Child welfare --- Family services --- Enfants --- Famille, Services à la --- Families --- Human services --- Child protective services --- Child protective services personnel --- Children --- CPS (Child protective services) --- Humane societies --- Protection of children --- Family policy --- Public welfare --- Social work with children --- Social work with youth --- Protection, assistance, etc --- Services for --- Charities --- Charities, protection, etc. --- Protection