Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / Families with serious and/or chronic child protection risks often have complex personal and social issues. Statutory child protection services must manage escalating child protection reports with limited resources. Addressing families at immediate risk often takes precedence over comprehensive family assessment and planned intervention, so the child protection issues in the lower priority families persist, and child protection reports continue. The Montrose Home-Based Family Assessment Program assesses Department of Community Services registered families who are at risk of child removal because of chronic and/or severe child protection issues. Using an ecological perspective, the Montrose team conducts a five day comprehensive assessment in the family's home and community, and develops a caseplan to address child protection risks and family support needs. The assessment is voluntary, and the family is encouraged to participate in identifying the child protection issues and developing solutions. The primary goal of this study is to compare child protection outcomes, three years after referral, for 100 families who participated in a Montrose Assessment, and 100 Comparison Group families. The research questions also explore the relationship between demographic, family, parent, child and child protection service factors and child protection outcome. Outcome is measured by Family Outcome, Children's Outcome, Legal Status, Children's Placement, subsequent Child Protection Reports and Substantiated Child Protection Reports, and Type of Abuse. The results suggest that home-based family assessment is a cost-effective model that can measurably reduce the likelihood of further abuse, court intervention and out of home care even for complex, high risk families. The study also identifies specific child, parent and child protection service related variables that are significantly associated with child protection outcome. These findings have major relevance for current child protection policy and practice, and also for broader social policy that impacts on high risk families.

Magistro baigiamajame darbe išanalizuotos ir įvertintos neįgaliųjų vaikų, augančių socialinės rizikos šeimose, integracijos problemos mokykloje, atskleisti integracijos ypatumai bei mokinių, turinčių specialiųjų mokymosi poreikių, galimybės dalyvaujant ugdymo procese. Taip pat pateikiamos rekomendacijos, kaip spręsti šias problemas. Pirmojoje darbo dalyje teoriniu aspektu tiriamas neįgalumo fenomenas, pateikiama negalios sampratų įvairovė, aptariamos negalios atsiradimo priežastys bei analizuojamas negalios suvokimas įvairių teorijų kontekste. Antrojoje dalyje nagrinėjama socialinės rizikos šeimų samprata, pateikiamos šių šeimų atsiradimo priežastys, analizuojama neįgalaus vaiko situacija socialinės rizikos šeimoje bei apžvelgiamas socialinės paramos ryšys su neįgalius vaikus auginančių tėvų psichologiniu prisitaikymu. Trečiojoje dalyje aptariamas integracijos suvokimas, nagrinėjamas specialiųjų poreikių mokinių integravimas į mokymo procesą, apžvelgiamas pedagogų požiūris į negalią turinčių mokinių integravimą į bendrojo lavinimo mokymo procesą, aptariamas neįgaliųjų vaikų, augančių socialinės rizikos šeimose tėvų dalyvavimas integracijos procese bei analizuojamas diskriminacijos aspektas neįgaliųjų atžvilgiu bendrojo lavinimo mokykloje. Ketvirtojoje dalyje analizuojami du skirtingi atvejų tyrimai, apibrėžiami neįgaliųjų, augančių socialinės rizikos šeimose, integracijos mokykloje ypatumai, gilinamasi į neįgaliųjų problemas mokykloje, atskleidžiamos jų dalyvavimo ugdymo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Master's thesis analyzed and assessed for disabled children, growing social risk families, integration problems at school, to reveal features of the integration of pupils with special educational needs, the possibility of participation in the educational process. It also provides guidance on how to deal with these problems. In the first part of the theoretical aspect of the phenomenon studied disability, the disability concepts of diversity, discusses the causes of disability and disability perception is analyzed in the context of different theories. The second part deals with the concept of social risk families, these families are the causes and analyzes of a disabled child in the family situation of social risk and review the relationship of social support to parents of children with disabilities psychological adaptation. The third part deals with the integration of perception is discussed with special needs students integrated into the learning process, an overview of teaching approach to the integration of students with disabilities into the mainstream education process, discusses the disabled children growing up in disadvantaged families for participation in the integration process and analyze the discrimination faced by people with disabilities in mainstream schools. The fourth section analyzes two different case studies, defines people with disabilities, growing social risk families, school integration features, and delves into the problems of people with disabilities... [to full text]

This thesis deals with problems of social prevention services for at-risk families with children in the selected location. The main objective for the author is whether the current institutional conditions for provision of social prevention for vulnerable families it possible to avoid placing children in institutional care. The second main objective is to identify problems related to the provision of these services within the institutional settings. The author, using several theoretical and factual resources, describes given issue and translates it to the enviroment of the village with extended powers Ústí nad Labem. Through expert research with selected involved we identified the main barriers which prevent the satisfactory provision of social prevention in the selected location. In Ústí nad Labem there is the highest number of at-risk families with children in the Czech Republic and social prevention services at the location in question are not sufficiently supported neither financially nor in terms off staff.