Dette er den femte delrapporten fra prosjektet «Barnevernets undersøkelsesarbeid – fra bekymring til beslutning». Denne delrapporten dreier seg om barn og foreldres medvirkning i barnevernets undersøkelsesarbeid. Problemstillingene belyses ved hjelp av kvantitative og kvalitative data fra 1123 undersøkelsessaker, samt intervjuer med barn, foreldre og kontaktpersoner i 12 saker. Intervjuene følger ...

Meldinger til barneverntjenesten er utgangspunkt for de ca. 50 000 undersøkelser som årlig gjennomføres i Norge. Barneverntjenestene har vært kritisert av fagfolk, brukere, politikere og media, nasjonalt og internasjonalt, for manglende systematikk, dokumentasjon og medvirkning. Noe kritikk har vært berettiget, mens annen kritikk har vært basert på feilaktig informasjon og misforståelser. ...

Background: Parental mental health and substance abuse problems are found in reports of concern to child protection and welfare services. The aim of this study was first to investigate what characterized these reports and how they differed from reports with other types of concerns. Two hypotheses were tested. The first hypothesis was (i) if a report contains concerns about mental health and substance ...

Introduction - High turnover rates have been a problem for Norwegian child welfare and protection services for years. The main aim of this study was to identify which factors affect Norwegian child welfare and protection (CWP) workers intention to quit their job and whether there is a difference between experienced (< 3 years) and less experienced workers.<p> <p>Methods - A cross-sectional survey ...

This study aimed to compare the content of the Norwegian Kvello AF for child welfare investigations with similar frameworks from Sweden (BBIC) and Denmark (ICS). The comparison was based on detailed descriptions of each framework, retrieved from authorized websites, textbooks, manuals, course material, and, for the Kvello AF, also personal communication with the author. An ecological triangle model ...

Background - When a child welfare service agency receives a report of concern, there is an initial screening to decide whether an investigation needs to be initiated. In addition to the decision maker, case factors, external factors, and organizational factors have an impact on decision making in Child Welfare Services (CWS). Few recent studies have considered the impact of case factors on the initial ...

The present meta-analytic review explored long-term treatment effects in children and adolescents, age ranging from 2 to 17 years, treated because of conduct problems. The presumed mediators were examined. Various treatments, in all 56 studies including 2589 participants, were included. 32 studies involved an untreated control condition, whereas 24 studies did not. The overall weighted effect ...

Although some attempts are being made to increase children's participation in Norwegian child protection cases, much needs to be done in order to comply with the participation principle in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This paper reports on a study of factors that are likely to predict if social workers will attempt to give children an effective voice in decision making ...

There are several studies conducted on parenting stress, and the conclusion in the parenting stress research literature is generally that parenting stress decreases the quality of the parent-child relationship. There are however few studies on parenting stress comparing kinship homes to ordinary types of foster homes. The aims of this study were to measure parenting stress in kinship and non-kinship ...

Purpose: Following the UN convention on the rights of children, a shift in policy towards greater emphasis on child participation in child protection case processing has occurred. A growing body of research has emerged concerning participation processes in child protection cases and the experiences of children in child protection cases. Very few studies have looked into if and when children get what ...