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Three A Nordic model in child welfare?
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Abstract
This chapter captures the similarities and variations in the performance of child welfare through a comparative Nordic approach. It provides new perspectives on the discussion on whether the welfare model way of thinking is producing good results in the case of child welfare services in the Nordic countries. The chapter also provides general reflections on methodological issues in comparative research on personal welfare services. The research to which this chapter refers is based on case studies of municipal individually geared social work in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm. The results from the first two parts of the study are given with the aim of highlighting some possible features of a Nordic model in child welfare. The results from the study appear to reflect clearly a family service oriented and preventive Nordic child welfare system. The analyses do point at a common model of child welfare in the selected welfare offices in the four countries.
Abstract
This chapter captures the similarities and variations in the performance of child welfare through a comparative Nordic approach. It provides new perspectives on the discussion on whether the welfare model way of thinking is producing good results in the case of child welfare services in the Nordic countries. The chapter also provides general reflections on methodological issues in comparative research on personal welfare services. The research to which this chapter refers is based on case studies of municipal individually geared social work in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm. The results from the first two parts of the study are given with the aim of highlighting some possible features of a Nordic model in child welfare. The results from the study appear to reflect clearly a family service oriented and preventive Nordic child welfare system. The analyses do point at a common model of child welfare in the selected welfare offices in the four countries.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables iv
- Notes on contributors v
- Introduction 1
- Nordic family policies: constructing contexts for social work with families 11
- A Nordic model in child welfare? 29
- From welfare to illfare: public concern for Finnish childhood 47
- Supporting families: the role of family work in child welfare 65
- Family-focused social work: professional challenges of the 21st century 83
- In the best interest of the child? Contradictions and tensions in social work 97
- Children in families receiving financial welfare assistance: visible or invisible? 113
- Listening to children’s experiences of being participant witnesses to domestic violence 129
- Now you see them – now you don’t: institutions in child protection policy 147
- Epilogue: on developing empowering child welfare systems and the welfare research needed to create them 161
- References 171
- Index 201
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables iv
- Notes on contributors v
- Introduction 1
- Nordic family policies: constructing contexts for social work with families 11
- A Nordic model in child welfare? 29
- From welfare to illfare: public concern for Finnish childhood 47
- Supporting families: the role of family work in child welfare 65
- Family-focused social work: professional challenges of the 21st century 83
- In the best interest of the child? Contradictions and tensions in social work 97
- Children in families receiving financial welfare assistance: visible or invisible? 113
- Listening to children’s experiences of being participant witnesses to domestic violence 129
- Now you see them – now you don’t: institutions in child protection policy 147
- Epilogue: on developing empowering child welfare systems and the welfare research needed to create them 161
- References 171
- Index 201
