کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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346329 | 617811 | 2011 | 7 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
The Ontario child protection system has, over the past 13 years, gone through two waves of reform but a recent government audit has highlighted ongoing concerns with performance and cost. In response, the Ontario Government set up a “Commission to Promote Sustainable Child Welfare” to address these concerns. The Ontario reform strategy has introduced much standardization and a compliance regime to ensure service quality. In this article, the bona fides and costs of such a strategy are examined and the author proposes that continuous outcomes monitoring and a standard to safeguard direct service time to clients are essential if child protection services are to improve.
Research Highlights
► Current policy sacrifices direct service time for compliance processes.
► There is little research evidence to support standardization or compliance processes.
► There is increasing evidence that monitoring outcomes improves effectiveness.
► Improving effectiveness will require safeguarding direct service and monitoring outcomes.
Journal: Children and Youth Services Review - Volume 33, Issue 5, May 2011, Pages 605–611