Permanent Care Orders in Victoria: A Thematic Analysis of Implementation Issues

Mackieson, Penny; Shlonsky, Aron; Connolly, Marie

doi:10.1080/0312407x.2018.1539112

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“…Times have changed, stresses on families have changed and the preparedness of society to sanction any other than parent-blaming responses seems now a figment of a long distance past. Increasing numbers of children, particularly Indigenous children, are coming into the care of the state, and increasingly families are being faced with reduced time to prove their worthiness before their children are legislatively permanently removed from their care (Keddell 2018;Skivenes and Sørsdal 2018;Mackieson et al 2019). However, far from abandoning hope, we have been witnesses to practices that signal optimism, and these have led us to develop for our own practice and hopefully for others, a way of conceptualising alternate child protection measures in policy and practice.…”

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‘Warm Eyes’, ‘Warm Breath’, ‘Heart Warmth’: Using Aroha (Love) and Warmth to Reconceptualise and Work towards Best Interests in Child Protection

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The 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 interests.

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‘Warm Eyes’, ‘Warm Breath’, ‘Heart Warmth’: Using Aroha (Love) and Warmth to Reconceptualise and Work towards Best Interests in Child Protection

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How collective interactions and institutional logics influence permanency planning in child protection in Quebec

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Poirier

2022

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Infant removal and the lack of representation for parents

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Henderson³

2020

Children Australia

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This paper throws a spotlight on the systemic disadvantage experienced by parents who have their children removed from their care. With data drawn from the annual reports of the Legal Aid of Western Australia, the child protection agency in Western Australia, and the Productivity Commission, the authors illustrate the disconnection between the agency’s policy to reunify children once removed from their birth parents; the resources made available to support families to overcome their difficulties; and how the gap is further widened when parents without financial means and who are disempowered face legal proceedings on their own. We profile the increasing numbers of infants who are removed, the decreasing numbers of these infants who are discharged from care, and the shortfall of grants of legal aid that are provided to parents when they go to court. For this group of parents, permanent loss of their children is a reality. The aim of the paper is to capture the extent to which there is a fundamental blemish on the principles of due process and fairness, and once statutory processes are triggered, the best interests of the child and the support of parents are contingent, with poverty being the key mediating factor.

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Permanent Care Orders in Victoria: A Thematic Analysis of Implementation Issues

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

‘Warm Eyes’, ‘Warm Breath’, ‘Heart Warmth’: Using Aroha (Love) and Warmth to Reconceptualise and Work towards Best Interests in Child Protection

‘Warm Eyes’, ‘Warm Breath’, ‘Heart Warmth’: Using Aroha (Love) and Warmth to Reconceptualise and Work towards Best Interests in Child Protection

How collective interactions and institutional logics influence permanency planning in child protection in Quebec

Infant removal and the lack of representation for parents

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