Improving practice: Child protection as a systems problem

Improving coordination in the child protection system.

Decision Making in Child Protection Practice

This research explores the decision making processes of individuals and groups engaged in child protection practice within social services departments in the UK. The emphasis of the research was to consider how the application of psychological theories and concepts might allow a descriptive and interpretative evaluation of decision processes in child protection practice. The research sought to ...

How to protect general practice from child protection.

The bad news is that the BJGP published under such a negative and provocative title without balanced debate, in contrast to the recent BMJ head-to-head debate 'Has child protection become a form of madness'.1,2 One interesting comparison made in that debate is that Sweden and Finland spend 50% more of their gross domestic product on children and families than we do in the UK, we spend 200% more...

Peer Abuse as a Legislated Child Protection Issue for Schools

Bullying or peer abuse is now recognized as an endemic feature of school life and efforts are being made to comprehensively address the issue at the school level through policy and curriculum development as well as individual interventions. Recent child protection legislation in NSW has raised significant ethical and professional issues involved in determining responses to peer abuse. It may be...

Modeling of Partial Digest Problem as a Network flows problem

Restriction Site Mapping is one of the interesting tasks in Computational Biology. A DNA strand can be thought of as a string on the letters A, T, C, and G. When a particular restriction enzyme is added to a DNA solution, the DNA is cut at particular restriction sites. The goal of the restriction site mapping is to determine the location of every site for a given enzyme. In partial digest metho...