Systems Complexity in Child Protection and Welfare: Policy, Leadership, Practice and Evaluation

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Aisling Gillen John Canavan

Systems Complexity in Child Protection and Welfare

Policy, Leadership, Practice and Evaluation

Aisling Gillen, John Canavan, Carmel Devaney , Caroline McGregor (National University of Ireland,Galway)

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Routledge
03 December 2024

Child welfare; Social work

Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work

This book examines systems complexity theory and specifically, system and dynamic characteristics of complexity, with a key focus on self/organisation/emergence/adaptation; path-dependence; and bifurcation.

Exploring systems complexity at the heart of child protection and welfare policymaking, leadership, practice, and evaluation and implications for policymakers, leaders, practitioners and evaluators in managing its impact, it proposes a systems complexity evaluation framework to assist identification, accommodation and decision-making in child protection and welfare practice, services, and systems. Using national case studies, practice, and research examples, it illustrates how adopting a complexity focus to Child Protection Work in any jurisdiction can augment decision-making and critical analysis acumen at all levels in practice, services, and systems.

This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work, child protection, family support, education, nursing and criminology.

By: Aisling Gillen, John Canavan, Carmel Devaney, Caroline McGregor (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032601182
ISBN 10: 1032601183
Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 03 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1.Introduction: Understanding and responding to complexity in Child Protection and Welfare practice, services, and systems. 2.The Global Challenges of Child Protection that contribute to complexity. 3.Systems Complexity Theory- Concepts and Characteristics. 4.Systems Complexity Theory and Policymaking. 5.Systems complexity theory and practice, service, and system leadership. 6.Informing practice through the application of complexity theory and a complexity ‘lens’. 7.Applying complexity-theory thinking to practice, service and system evaluation in complex child protection and welfare (CPW) work. 8.Towards a Systems Complexity Framework: for Child Protection and Welfare: Key learnings and future considerations.

Aisling Gillen is a Visiting Research Fellow in the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway and former Service Director with Ireland’s Child Protection Agency. John Canavan is Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and Personal Professor in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway. Carmel Devaney is Associate Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, Lecturer and Head of Discipline of Applied Social Science in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway. Caroline McGregor is Senior Research Fellow in the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and Personal Professor in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway.