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Performing child protection: Social worker's experiences of home visiting and relating to children and parents in the home

执行儿童保护：社会工作者家访以及与家中儿童和父母建立联系的经验

基本信息

批准号：
ES/J006629/1
负责人：
Harry Ferguson
金额：
$ 10.2万
依托单位：
University of Nottingham
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ006629%2F1
关键词：
Performing child protection Social worker

项目摘要

The aim of this study is to deepen understandings of social work and child protection through focusing on practitioner's experiences of doing the work and how they go about protecting children in their homes. The most important reason to focus on the home (visit) is that it is by far the most common place where children and families are seen and actual child protection work goes on. Surprisingly little is known about how social workers generally behave on home visits, whether they move around the house to inspect it, whether or how they interact with children, interview, touch or examine them; or how they conduct interviews with parents in their homes. What is known however, from reviews into cases where children have died or not been protected from serious harm, including high profile cases like that of 'Baby Peter', Victoria Climbie, Jasmine Beckford, Maria Colwell, is that social workers did not directly engage with children while in the same room as them on home visits and this was crucial to why their abuse was not discovered. The reasons for this non-engagement with children are poorly understood. Men who were resident in the home and abusing the children have also gone undiscovered, in part because mothers managed to conceal the men and social workers did not look around the home to establish who resided with the children. Even leaving aside these tragic cases, little is known about how social workers and service users actually communicate with one another in day to day practice. Research into child protection practice has been predominantly focused on what goes on in the office and how professionals talk about their cases, and on the impact of bureaucracy and performance management. Some recent innovative studies have researched social workers' responses to case vignettes and also how real social workers communicate in simulated interviews with service users played by actors. No research studies have given systematic attention to studying actual practice when social workers are face-to-face with children and parents on home visits. Government guidance issued in 2010 requires social workers to see known at risk children on their own. Yet little or no empirical evidence exists on what are the norms of practice in seeing children and there is little in the literature about where is the safest most reliable place for such contact with children to happen. The aim of this research is to produce original data on how social workers go about home visiting and engaging with parents and children in the domestic sphere. Participant observation of social workers doing home visits, audio-recordings of the social worker-service user interviews in the home (where informed consent has been given) and interviews with the social worker after the visits about those experiences will provide the basis for a critical analysis of current methods of practice. The study will produce vital knowledge for theory and practice. Theoretically, the experience of home visiting will be conceptualised in terms of workers' lived experiences and what influences whether or not they move towards children and engage directly with them in the home. This will enable the theoretical work on performing child protection and the experience of home visiting that I have developed in a number of recent publications to be tested out and refined to produce original theoretical insights and understandings of practice. A major contribution to education and practice will be made through the production of a model for best practice in home visiting and safeguarding children. This will provide guidance to social workers and other professionals on effective strategies for negotiating one's way into a home, how and where to conduct assessments, ensure the child is regualrly seen and directly engaged with, how to work with parental resistance, and intervene to effect positive change for children and their carers.

本研究的目的是通过关注从业者的工作经验以及他们如何在家中保护儿童，加深对社会工作和儿童保护的理解。把重点放在家庭（访问）上的最重要原因是，家庭是迄今为止最常见的见到儿童和家庭的地方，实际的儿童保护工作是在那里进行的，令人惊讶的是，人们对社会工作者在家庭访问中的一般行为知之甚少，他们是否在房子周围走动以检查房子，他们是否或如何与儿童互动，与他们交谈，触摸或检查他们;或者他们如何在家中与父母进行面谈。然而，从对儿童死亡或未受到保护免受严重伤害的案件的审查中，包括“彼得宝贝”、维多利亚、贾斯敏·贝克福德、玛丽亚科尔韦尔等备受瞩目的案件，我们知道，社会工作者在家访时与儿童在同一个房间里并没有直接接触，这是为什么他们的虐待没有被发现的关键。人们对这种不与儿童接触的原因了解甚少。住在家中虐待儿童的男子也没有被发现，部分原因是母亲设法隐藏了这些男子，社会工作者没有在家中四处查看，以确定谁与儿童住在一起。即使撇开这些悲惨的案例不谈，我们对社会工作者和服务使用者在日常实践中如何相互沟通也知之甚少。对儿童保护做法的研究主要集中在办公室内发生的事情和专业人员如何谈论他们的案件，以及官僚作风和业绩管理的影响。最近的一些创新研究研究了社会工作者对案例小插曲的反应，以及真实的社会工作者如何在模拟访谈中与演员扮演的服务用户进行沟通。没有任何研究系统地注意研究社会工作者在家访时与儿童和父母面对面的实际做法。2010年发布的政府指导意见要求社会工作者自行看望已知有风险的儿童。然而，很少或没有经验证据存在什么是实践的规范，在看到儿童和有很少的文献是什么地方是最安全的最可靠的地方，这种接触与儿童发生。这项研究的目的是产生关于社会工作者如何在家庭领域进行家访和与父母和儿童接触的原始数据。参与者对社会工作者进行家访的观察、在家中（已给予知情同意）对社会工作者服务用户进行访谈的录音以及在访问后对社会工作者进行有关这些经历的访谈将为批判性分析提供基础当前的实践方法。这项研究将为理论和实践提供重要的知识。从理论上讲，家访的经验将根据工人的生活经验以及影响他们是否走向儿童并在家中直接与他们接触的因素来概念化。这将使我在最近的一些出版物中开发的关于执行儿童保护的理论工作和家访经验得到检验和完善，以产生原创的理论见解和实践理解。将通过制作家访和保护儿童最佳做法模式，为教育和实践作出重大贡献。这将为社会工作者和其他专业人员提供指导，指导他们如何谈判进入家庭的有效策略，如何以及在哪里进行评估，确保儿童经常被看到并直接参与，如何与父母的阻力合作，并进行干预，为儿童及其照顾者带来积极的变化。