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It takes a village to protect a child

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Hendrick, Antonia
Young, S.
Date
2013
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Conference Paper

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Hendrick, A. and Young, S. 2013. It takes a village to protect a child, in Duke, J. and Henrickson, M. and Beddoe, L. (ed), edited Proceedings from the Social Workers Registration Board Conference 2013, Nov 11-12 2013, pp. 15-25. Wellington, New Zealand: Social Workers Registration Board.
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Protecting the Public - Enhancing the Profession
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Social Workers Registration Board Conference 2013
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School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work
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This article presents a case for taking a concerted community approach to protecting children. It does this through acknowledging that: child protection is indeed ‘everyone’s business’ (Landgren, 2005) and extending this into promoting a collective response rather than relying solely on child protection authorities to work with individual families; revisiting the ‘best interests’ criterion of child rights in protecting children; reiterating the argument (Young, McKenzie, Omre, Schjelderup, & Walker, 2014) for a much more nuanced understanding of, and response to, keeping children safe; and presenting some descriptions and analyses of community approaches to protecting children.