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Signs of Safety™ is an approach to child protection practice used across Western Australia. In 2013, in its fifth year of state-wide implementation, the Department for Child Protection and Family Support (DCPFS) has engaged the Australian Centre for Child Protection …
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Casey Family Programs, in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Human Services, contracted with Wilder Research to conduct an evaluation and chronicle of two jurisdictions within Minnesota with long histories of implementing the Signs of Safety framework: Carver County and …
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The National Society for the Prevention for Cruelty to Children, (NSPCC) in England commissioned the preparation of a comprehensive report about the use of the Signs of Safety in England. The report was written by Amanda Bunn and was released …
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The Department for Child Protection (DCP) has established a three-year contract with the Australian Centre for Child Protection (ACCP) to undertake research on the Signs of Safety implementation in Western Australia. Dr Mary Salveron will be the lead researcher working …
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Award-winning playwright Lemn Sissay provides a compelling and challenging talk, describing his experience of being raised in care on TED. Sissay’s talk describes his struggle to find his identity in the confusing journey of being a child of the state …
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Two recent English reviews of practice (Gardner, 2008 and DSCF, 2009) have identified the problem that the ‘recent emphasis on strengths based approaches and the positive aspects of families (for example in the Common Assessment Framework) arguably discourages workers from …
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John Wheeler and Viv Hogg recently published a book chapter documenting the evidence base supporting the Signs of Safety approach. The chapter is called Signs of Safety and the Child Protection Movement, and is published in C. Franklin, T. Trepper, …
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Casey Family Programs in the USA recently published an important report called, “Strategies to Increase Birth Parent Engagement, Partnership, and Leadership in the Child Welfare System: A Review.” Birth parent engagement in child welfare programs is associated with reducing the …
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Following an event in Solihull (UK) earlier this year for Heads of Service, Senior Managers of Children’s Services and partner agencies who are, or were considering, implementing the Signs of Safety, three separate Leaders’ Days were held last month. The …
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The full titles of these book chapters are: Roessler, M. and Gaiswinkler, W. (2012) Der Signs of Safety ansatz ambivalenzmanagement, praxis und praxisforschung in der Jugendwohlfahrt. In: Brandstetter, Manuela. Schmid, Tom. Vyslouzil, Monika (Hg.) (2012) Community studies aus der sozialen …
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