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Child protection in light of the Theory of Change
154-165Views:43It is essential that the child’s individual needs determine the required services and how these can give adequate responses to children’s problems. In Hungary, the child protection system is driven by less established professional principles, service planning and provision are of an ad hoc nature, child protection services lack any conscious design. The present study is based upon main qualitative results obtained from the research subject of “Is the State a Good Parent?”. Our goal is to reveal how the child’s needs are met in the system of the Hungarian child protection services (institutional and foster care), in what way the system can serve best the interests of the child, what systemic flaws can be identified according to child protection experts opinion.
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Enforcement of Community Approaches in Child Protection Practice: International Trends
70-86Views:35Child protection has changed in important ways on international level in recent years. Child protection as social institution adapts to and follows social change. Global competitions, mobility
of capital and workforce, acceleration of economic processes and interdependence of national
economies, and the economic crises of 2007 has their impact on the operation and workings of
welfare systems. This study examines the trends and tendencies in international child protection practice since the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, what type of child protection
orientations can be distinguished, what kind of characteristics can be described and which way
seems to emerge—as a common challenge—in general in the field of the state’s child protection
activities. The study draws attention to the importance of some topics in international discourse, such as complex needs of the clients, importance of partnerships, support of parenthood and a
range of professional skills and competences to achieve these goals. -
Self-contained child protection – possible ways to open up
178-194Views:107The aim of the research, based on a qualitative methodology, is to gain an understanding of
whether external/affiliated services are provided in child protection system targeting parents or
children and young people with child protection problems. The aim is to examine the extent of a
service focused and innovative approaches in child protection, where is the place and what is the
role of civil services. The study, which based on 15 expert interviews, argues that child protection
is currently characterised by many dysfunctions, as a self-contained and isolated sub-system of
social policy, which not only fails to deliver the basic objectives of child protection in practice, but
in many cases hides structural deficiencies and systemic anomalies. There is a need to explore
new ways of child protection, including the use of volunteering, the services of civil organizations
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Gyermekvédelmi háttérrel a felsőoktatásba: a YIPPEE nemzetközi kutatás egyesült királyságbeli és magyar tapasztalatai
24-38Views:47A Gyermekvédelmi gondoskodásban élő és onnan kikerülő fiatal felnőttek: Utak az oktatásba Európában (Young People from a Public Care Background: Pathways to Education in Europe) című nemzetközi kutatás célja az volt – mely az Európai Unió 7. Kutatási keretprogram „Fiatalok és Társadalmi Kirekesztődés” témakör keretében valósult meg –, hogy átfogó képet kapjunk arról, hogy az egyes országokban a gyermekvédelmi gondoskodási háttérrel rendelkező, jelenleg 19-21 éves fiatalokat mi segíti és mi gátolja a továbbtanulásban; a gondoskodási háttérrel milyen oktatási utak léteznek Európában. A kutatás Dániában, Magyarországon, Spanyolországban, Svédországban és az Egyesült Királyságban zajlott 2007-2010 között. A vizsgálat több szakaszból állt.
Elsőként egy szakirodalmi áttekintésre és a publikált statisztikai adatok elemzésére került sor. Ezt követően interjúk készültek döntéshozókkal, ellátást nyújtókkal, valamint egy kérdőíves felmérés olyan 19-21 év közötti fiatalok körében, akik életük során legalább 1 évet gyermekvédelmi gondoskodásban töltöttek és 16 éves korukban is a rendszerben voltak.A felmérés eredményei általános képet adtak arra vonatkozóan, hogy hogyan alakult a fiatal felnőttek tankötelezettségi kor utáni iskolai karrierje. Ezen eredményekre építve minden országban 35 fiatallal és egy általuk megnevezett kulcsszeméllyel (aki tanulásra ösztönözte őket) újabb interjú készült. Ennek fókusza, hogy mélyebben megismerjük, hogyan alakult a fiatal oktatási karrierje, melyek voltak a nehezítő tényezők, egyáltalán milyen tényezők határozták meg, hogy a fiatal a tankötelezettségi kor után is folytatta a tanulmányait. A továbbtanulásban, felsőoktatási tanulmányok folytatásában kik azok, akik segítséget nyújtottak számára. Egy évvel később a kiválasztott fiatal felnőttekkel ismét interjú készült mely azt vizsgálta, mennyire sikerült megvalósítani elképzeléseiket, hogyan módosultak rövidtávú terveik.
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Through the screen of the majority ...: Public opinions on the social situation of Roma and their media representation
74-92Views:33This paper presents the results of a questionnaire survey on public opinion on the social situation of Roma and their media coverage. The survey was based on the attitudes of the population towards the Roma, their perceptions and prejudices, and their perceptions of the media coverage of the Roma.
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Reification, child protection in lock-ups
34-46Views:50This paper examines how the child protection system can address the problems of children and young adults, compensate for childhood disadvantage and promote successful social integration. To what extent are the professional means available within the state structure to achieve all these goals - as declared in the Child Protection Act of 1997. The interpretation of solidarity as a value in child protection is clear, since child protection aims to improve the situation of families affected by child protection problems and to promote their healthy personal development. The study, based on interviews with professionals and experts and a short case study, draws attention to the shortcomings and limitations of the system.
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Perceptions of families with children and the social professionals working with them on services promoting the well-being and social mobility of families
3-28Views:38In our study, we investigate how families with children living in a disadvantaged sub-region of Northern Hungary, in areas of different settlement size and in settlements belonging to the Budapest agglomeration, perceive the available educational,
education, childcare, health and social services, whether they have any information about them, and what professionals working with families with children think about the education, childcare, health and social services and services available to them.
the professional content and quality of the services provided, and whether
the extent to which they can contribute to the well-being and social mobility of families. Our research included a population questionnaire survey and interviews with professionals and families with children. Our results indicate that children's abilities
the lack of services to develop their abilities, develop their talents and promote their well-being, the
existing education, health and social services with very limited capacity and therefore low quality, and limited access to cultural and recreational opportunities
mobility opportunities for children growing up in disadvantaged families are severely limited. Child welfare social work tools are scarce and social interventions are based on fire-fighting. -
Central European Innovative Practices Supporting Active Ageing
48-63Views:41The study presents through international examples of how the security and quality of life of elderly and disabled people can be enhanced. 12 partners in eight Central European countries carried out pilot activities within the framework of the HELPS project. The aim of this international project is to contribute to the decrease of the social exclusion of elderly, and to elaborate practises through which seniors would not be constraint to institutional care, and can live in their homes on a longer term. The study presents the outcomes of these pilots and the ensuing primary experiences. The presented innovative solutions offer possibilities in various fields (housing, services, career, practises, information of relatives) for the home care of elderly and people living with disabilities. Prior to the elaboration and put into practice of the development ideas and plans, the partners evaluated the health care system and related services offered to elderly and disabled people in their homeland. The analyses revealed those shortage areas, where further developments would increase the possibility to keep and care for the target group in their homes.
