The Future of Child Protection

make it mandatory reading for policymakers, practitioners, and others interested in the future of child protection.

Child Abuse and Neglect Today

1

(28)

The Role of Child Protective Services

5

(1)

The Demographics of Children in Need of Protection

6

(4)

Consequences of Reporting

10

(19)

A Comparative Perspective

29

(36)

Operation of Child Protective Services

30

(3)

Sample Data

33

(1)

Criteria for Reporting

34

(6)

Procedures after Reporting

40

(4)

Differences in Outcome by Type of Reporter

44

(3)

Outcomes

47

(12)

Why Are U.S. Reporting Rates So High?

59

(6)

The Current Child Protective Services System

65

(29)

Scope

65

(6)

A Brief History of CPS

71

(7)

Underlying Assumptions

78

(4)

A Critical View of the System

82

(5)

Implications for a New Paradigm

87

(7)

Entry into the System

94

(24)

History of the Reporting Laws

95

(2)

The Reporting, Screening, and Investigation System

97

(13)

Reforming the Intake System

110

(8)

Narrowing as a Strategy to Improve Child Protection

118

(19)

The Case for Narrowing

118

(1)

What Would ``Narrowing'' Mean?

119

(3)

Evaluating the Case for Narrowing

122

(10)

How ``Narrowing Plus'' Might Be Accomplished

132

(3)

Unresolved Issues

135

(2)

Differential Response: A New Paradigm for Child Protective Services

137

(24)

Paradigms for Child Protective Services

139

(2)

The Diversity and Complexity of Families Referred to CPS

141

(2)

Features of the Differential Response Paradigm

143

(4)

Moving to Differential Response

147

(14)

Working Together: Child Protection Reform in Britain

161

(21)

The Development of the British CPS System

161

(5)

The Impetus for Reform

166

(4)

The Children Act of 1989

170

(6)

Beyond the Children Act

176

(6)

Changing Frontline Practice

182

(26)

Implications of the New Paradigm

182

(11)

Lessons from Earlier Initiatives to Change Frontline Practice

193

(3)

How States and Localities Can Help

196

(12)

Reforming Child Protection

208

(29)

The Current Child Protective Services System

209

(3)

A New Paradigm for Child Protection

212

(5)

Moving toward a More Fully Differentiated System

217

(1)

Improving the Effectiveness of the CPS System's Response

218

(5)

Increasing the Role of Community Partners in Child Protection

223

(7)

The Endpoint of the Reforms

230

(7)

Notes

237

(42)

Index

279

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