Contested views of expertise in children's care and permanence proceedings
Hill, Malcolm and Welch, Vicki and Gadda, Andressa (2017) Contested views of expertise in children's care and permanence proceedings. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 39 (1). pp. 42-66. ISSN 0964-9069 (https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2016.1272781)
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Abstract
In this article, we consider different perspectives on who is best able to provide relevant and helpful expertise in public law cases where the long-term care of children is under consideration. Opinions vary and sometimes conflict on the respective importance of legal, child-centred, and lay understandings. These opinions relate to views on rights, appropriate procedures, decision-making processes, and the effects of decisions on children. Firstly, we summarise literature relevant to the knowledge and skills of three key groups of decision makers within the Scottish child care system: legal professionals, child care professionals and lay decision-makers and outline literature about guardians ad litem and their counterparts. We then discuss issues of expertise emerging from a study exploring the reasons for, and impact of, the appointment of safeguarders (who, in Scotland, perform a similar role to guardians). We conclude that there may be an increasing tendency for disagreement and a lack of clarity about who is able to provide the most relevant and helpful expertise to hearings; this may have negative effects for children.
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Hill, Malcolm, Welch, Vicki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2447-1854 and Gadda, Andressa;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 58658 Dates: DateEvent3 February 2017Published19 September 2016Accepted13 December 2015SubmittedNotes: The Version of Record of this manuscript will be published in Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2016.1272781. Subjects: Social Sciences > The family. Marriage. Women
Law > Law of the United Kingdom and Ireland > ScotlandDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection (CELCIS)Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 15 Nov 2016 12:35 Last modified: 11 Sep 2024 00:40 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/58658