Towards a critical decision-making ecology approach for child protection research

Ballantyne, N. (2019). The ethics and politics of human service technology: the case of predictive modelling in New Zealand child protection. The Hong Kong Journal of Social Work 53(01n02): 15–27. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219246219000044

Baumann DJ Dalgleish L Fluke J , et al. (2011) The Decision-making Ecology. Washington, DC: American Humane Association.

Baumann D Fluke J Dalgleish L , et al. (2013) The decision-making ecology. In: Shlonsky A Benbenishty R (eds) From Evidence to Outcomes in Child Welfare: An International Reader. New York: Oxford, pp.24–38.

Baumann D Fluke J Graham JC , Wittenstromet al. (2010) Disproportionality in Child Protective Services: The Preliminary Results of Statewide Reform Efforts. Texas: Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

Benbenishty R Davidson-Arad B López M , et al. (2016) Decision making in child protection: An international comparative study on maltreatment substantiation, risk assessment and interventions recommendations, and the role of professionals’ child welfare attitudes. Child Abuse & Neglect 49: 63–75.

Bosk EA Feely M (2020) The goldilocks problem: Tensions between actuarially based and clinical judgment in child welfare decision making. Social Service Review 94(4): 659–668.

Bywaters P Brady G Bunting L , et al. (2018) Inequalities in English child protection practice under austerity: A universal challenge? Child & Family Social Work 23(1): 53–2206.

Bywaters P Scourfield J Webb C , et al. (2019) Paradoxical evidence on ethnic inequities in child welfare: Towards a research agenda. Children and Youth Services Review 96: 145–154.

Cook LL (2017) Making sense of the initial home visit: The role of intuition in child and family social workers’ assessments of risk. Journal of Social Work Practice 31(4): 431–444.

Cuccaro-Alamin S Foust R Vaithianathan R , et al. (2017) Risk assessment and decision making in child protective services: Predictive risk modeling in context. Children and Youth Services Review 79: 291–298.

Dettlaff AJ Boyd R (2020) Racial disproportionality and disparities in the child welfare system: Why do they exist, and what can be done to address them? The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 692(1): 253–274.

Dettlaff AJ Rivaux SL Baumann DJ , et al. (2011) Disentangling substantiation: The influence of race, income, and risk on the substantiation decision in child welfare. Children and Youth Services Review 33(9): 1630–1637.

Doherty P (2016) Child protection threshold talk and ambivalent case formulations in ‘borderline’ care proceedings cases. Qualitative Social Work 16(5): 698–619.

Featherstone B Gupta A Morris K M , et al. (2018) Let’s stop feeding the risk monster: Towards a social model of ‘child protection’. Families, relationships and societies. Families, Relationships and Societies 7(1): 7–22. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674316X14552878034622

Feely M Bosk EA (2021) That which is essential has been made invisible: The need to bring a structural risk perspective to reduce racial disproportionality in child welfare. Race and Social Problems 13: 49–62.

Ferguson H (2016) What social workers do in performing child protection work: Evidence from research into face-to-face practice. Child & Family Social Work 21(3): 283–294. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12142

Ferguson H Warwick L Cooner TS , et al. (2020) The nature and culture of social work with children and families in long-term casework: Findings from a qualitative longitudinal study. Child & Family Social Work 25(3): 694–703.

Fluke JD Baumann DJ Dalgleish LI , et al. (2021). Racial disparities in child welfare: A decision-making ecology view. In: Dettlaff AJ (ed.) Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp.339–352.

Fluke JD Chabot M Fallon B , et al. (2010) Placement decisions and disparities among aboriginal groups: An application of the decision making ecology through multi-level analysis. Child Abuse & Neglect 34(1): 57–69.

Fluke, J. D., Baumann, D. J., Dalgleish, L. I., & Kern, H. D. (2014). Decisions to Protect Children: A Decision Making Ecology. In J. E. Korbin & R. D. Krugman (Eds.), Handbook of Child Maltreatment (pp. 463–476). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7208-3_25

Fluke JD Corwin TW Hollinshead DM , et al. (2016) Family preservation or child safety? Associations between child welfare workers' experience, position, and perspectives. Children and Youth Services Review 69: 210–218.

Font SA Berger LM Slack KS (2012) Examining racial disproportionality in child protective services case decisions. Children and Youth Services Review 34(11): 2188–2200.

Font SA Maguire-Jack K (2015) Decision-making in child protective services: Influences at multiple levels of the social ecology. Child Abuse & Neglect 47: 70–82.

Gilbert, N., Parton, N., & Skivenes, M. (2011). Child Protection Systems: International Trends and Orientations. Oxford University Press.

Graham JC Dettlaff AJ Baumann DJ , et al. (2015) The decision making ecology of placing a child into foster care: A structural equation model. Child Abuse & Neglect 49: 12–23.

Helm D (2011) Judgements or assumptions? The role of analysis in assessing children and young people's needs. British Journal of Social Work 41(5): 894–911.

Helm D Roesch-Marsh A (2016) The ecology of judgement: A model for understanding and improving social work judgements. British Journal of Social Work 47(5): 1361–1376. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcw091

Hood R Gorin S Goldacre A , et al. (2020) Exploring drivers of demand for child protection services in an English local authority. Child & Family Social Work 25(3): 657–664.

Keddell E (2011) Going home: Managing ‘risk’ through relationship in returning children from foster care to their families of origin. Qualitative Social Work 11(6): 604–620.

Keddell E (2014) Current debates on variability in child welfare decision-making: A selected literature review. Social Sciences 3(4): 916–940.

Keddell, E. (2015). The ethics of predictive risk modelling in the Aotearoa/New Zealand child welfare context: child abuse prevention or neo-liberal tool?. Critical Social Policy 35(1): 69–88.

Keddell E (2019) Algorithmic justice in child protection: Statistical fairness, social justice and the implications for practice. Social Sciences 8(10): 281.

Keddell E Cleaver K (2020) Evidence brief: Urgent inquiry into Oranga Tamariki wai 2915. Wellington: Waitangi Tribunal. Available at: https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_165023706/Wai%202915%2C%20A090.pdf (accessed 29 July 2021).

Keddell, E., Cleaver, K. Fitzmaurice, L. (2021a). Baby removals in Aotearoa New Zealand: reform and prevention in a colonised context. Seminar for Child and Family Justice Research, University of Lancaster. Retrieved from: https://www.cfj-lancaster.org.uk/news/associate-professor-emily-keddell-tuesday-25th-may-9am.

Keddell E Cleaver K Fitzmaurice L (2021b) The perspectives of community-based practitioners on preventing baby removals: Addressing legitimate and illegitimate factors. Children and Youth Services Review 127: 106126.

Keddell E Stanley T (2019) Critical debates in child protection: The production of risk in changing times. In: Webb S (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work. Milton Park: Routledge, pp.412–515.

Keddell, E., & Hyslop, I. (2020). Networked Decisions: Decision-Making Thresholds in Child Protection. The British Journal of Social Work 50(7), 1961–1980. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz131

McLaughlin AM Gray E Wilson MG (2017) From tenuous to tenacious: Social justice practice in child welfare. Journal of Public Child Welfare 11(4-5): 568–518.

McLaughlin M Jonson-Reid M (2017) The relationship between child welfare financing, screening, and substantiation. Children and Youth Services Review 82: 407–412.

Nyathi N (2018) Child protection decision-making: Social workers’ perceptions. Journal of Social Work Practice 32(2): 189–203.

Parton N (2021) Special issue: Critical child protection studies, call for papers. Available at: www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/Critical_Child_Protection_Studies (accessed 29 July 2021).

Platt D Turney D (2014) Making threshold decisions in child protection: A conceptual analysis. British Journal of Social Work 44(6): 1472–1490.

Warner J (2021) Social work legitimacy: Democratising research, policy and practice in child protection. The British Journal of Social Work 51(4): 1168–1185.

Webb, C., Bywaters, P., Scourfield, J., McCartan, C., Bunting, L., Davidson, G., & Morris, K. (2020, 2020/04/01/). Untangling child welfare inequalities and the ‘Inverse Intervention Law’ in England. Children and Youth Services Review, 111, 104849. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104849

Webster M McNabb D (2016) New public management and information communication technology: Organisational influences on frontline child protection practice. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 28(2): 51–29.

Whittaker A (2018) How do child-protection practitioners make decisions in real-life situations? Lessons from the psychology of decision making. The British Journal of Social Work 48(7): 1967–1984.

Wolfe, D. (2011). Risk factors for child abuse perpetration. In J. W. White, M. Koss, & A. Kazdin (Eds.), Violence against women and children, Vol 1: Mapping the terrain. American Psychological Association, xxii, 332. https://doi.org/doi: 10.1037/12307-002