Risk assessment instruments in child protection
CFCA Resource Sheet— June 2016
Outlines the different approaches and instruments used to assess whether children are at risk of maltreatment
Publications
CFCA produces a range of publications. These include CFCA Papers, which offer an objective exploration of how research applies to policy and practice, and are written by or in collaboration with expert researchers and service providers. CFCA Resource Sheets and Practitioner Resources are shorter papers that focus on a specific issue in depth.
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Meeting children's needs when the family environment isn't always "good enough": A systems approach
Debbie Scott
CFCA Paper No. 14 — May 2013
This paper provides a theoretical basis to working with vulnerable and high-risk families where parenting is not "good enough" or even unsafe
The role of supervisory neglect in childhood injury
Debbie Scott, Daryl Higgins and Richard Franklin
CFCA Paper No. 8 — September 2012
This paper explores the theoretical understandings of supervisory neglect and how these understandings might assist in delivering practical responses
Child protection and family law… Joining the dots
Daryl Higgins and Rae Kaspiew
NCPC Issues No. 34 — May 2011
In this paper, we look at the issues facing those responsible for ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children in the context of parental separation.
A stitch in time saves nine: Preventing and responding to the abuse and neglect of infants
Brigid Jordan and Robyn Sketchley
NCPC Issues No. 30 — September 2009
Explores the issues involved in applying a public health approach together with a human rights perspective to healing and protecting infants.
Child maltreatment and disability
Adam M. Tomison
NCPC Issues No. 7 — December 1996
Examines the relationship between children with disabilities and parents with disabilities, and the potential for child maltreatment.
