Response to: 'New Directions in child protection and family support in Western Australia: a policy initiative to re-focus child welfare practice' |
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| Authors: | Sharon McCallum, Di Eades&dagger |
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| Affiliation: | Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Northern Territory University, Darwin, and;Manager, Family and Children's Services, Territory Health Services, Darwin Urban, Northern Territory, Australia |
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| Abstract: | This paper is a response to ‘New Directions in child protection and family support in Western Australia: a policy initiative to re‐focus child welfare practice’, written by Nigel Parton and Richard Mathews and published in Volume 6(2) of Child and Family Social Work. Parton and Mathews’ paper describes the policy and provides an analysis of its impact on child protection practice. They find the policy to have been successful on a number of different dimensions. This paper subjects their findings to a broader lens of analysis and arrives at conclusions somewhat different to those of the authors. |
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| Keywords: | child welfare policy resource allocation and prioritization |
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