1. Children and Workers in the Firing Line: Messages from the Case Files and Interviews -- 2. The Shifting Foundations of Child Protection: The Context of the Victorian Study -- 3. The Failure to Protect: Child Deaths due to Familial Assault or Neglect -- 4. The Failure to Protect: Repeated Abuse -- 5. The Social Worker-Client Relationship: From Love to Violence and Beyond -- 6. Protective Workers in the Firing Line: The True Extent of Violence and Isolation -- 7. Hostage Theory -- 8. Child Protection Workers as Hostages -- 9. Beyond the Firing Line: A Broad Perspective -- 10. Supervision: From Part of the Problem to Part of the Solution -- 11. The Firing Line Revisited
Summary
Serious child protection failures haunt health and welfare agencies around the world. Based on interviews with protective workers and rigorous examination of their cases, this book draws links between the traumatised and isolated child protection worker and the child in the same situation. Authors from Monash University
Analysis
Child abuse Child care, child and youth welfare Violence in society
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-218) and index
