Social Policy Journal of New Zealand articles from July 2006

Social Policy Journal of New Zealand archives from July 2006

Foreword.
July 1, 2006... Issue 28 has a very strong focus on children, covering issues of care and protection, benefit support and education. In particular, we are very pleased to include in this issue several papers based on presentations to the 10th Australasian...

From mopping up the damage to preventing the flood: the role of social policy in preventing violence against children.
July 1, 2006... Abstract Sweden is a country where children's rights and developmental needs occupy the top level of the political agenda. There, child poverty is unacceptable, violence against children is not tolerated, a single child's death is too...

Cultural conceptualisation of child abuse and responses to it: an aboriginal perspective.
July 1, 2006... Abstract Although the impact of child abuse infiltrates communities at all socioeconomic and cultural levels, its prevalence in indigenous Australian communities is of particular concern. Any level of child abuse or neglect is unacceptable...

Creating a warm place where children can blossom.
July 1, 2006... Abstract This paper addresses the themes of resilience, rights and responsibilities, to explore how community life, professional practice and social policy can be more attuned to the needs of vulnerable children. It considers the parts...

Towards coherent care and education support policies for New Zealand families.
July 1, 2006... Abstract The reconciliation of work and family life involves two aspirations that are important both to individuals and to societies: to participate fully in the labour market, generating income but also seeking individual fulfilment, and...

Stabilisation of the statutory child protection response: managing to a specified level of risk assurance.
July 1, 2006... Abstract This paper is a thought piece that considers some of the implications of the model of child protection risk-screening developed in "The underlying instability in statutory child protection" (Mansell 2006). In particular, how might...

The underlying instability in statutory child protection: understanding the system dynamics driving risk assurance levels.
July 1, 2006... Abstract A core component of the level of statutory assurance against the risk of child abuse is hazard detection through notifier surveillance, and through risk screening by both notifiers and the statutory child protection agency....

Geographic micro-clustering of homosexual men: implications for research and social policy.
July 1, 2006... Abstract There is increasing demand internationally for better-quality information on people with a non-heterosexual orientation. Information requirements include both basic demographic characteristics as well as evidence of disparities in...

Client satisfaction with the early start service.(Family Start initiative)
July 1, 2006... Abstract Early Start, funded under the Government's Family Start initiative, is a home visitation service provided by trained family support workers designed to support, empower and assist families to address issues relating to...

Poverty.(The Poverty Wars)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... POVERTY by Ruth Lister, Polity Press, 2004 THE POVERTY WARS by Peter Saunders, UNSW Press, 2005 Ruth Lister and Peter Saunders, in their respective books, discuss and debate the important issues around poverty--its conceptualisation...