Table of Contents

1 Errors and mistakes in child protection: an introduction

Kay Biesel, Judith Masson, Nigel Parton and Tarja Pösö

2 Errors and mistakes in child protection: understandings

and responsibilities

Kay Biesel and Michelle Cottier

3 England: attempting to learn from mistakes in an

increasingly ‘risk averse’ professional context

Judith Masson and Nigel Parton

4 The social construction of child abuse in Ireland: public

discourse, policy challenges and practice failures

Caroline Shore and Fred Powell

5 The level- headed approach on errors and mistakes in

Dutch child protection: an individual duty or a shared

responsibility?

Kirti Zeijlmans, Tom van Yperen and Mónica López López

6 The Finnish approach to errors and mistakes in child

protection: trust in practitioners and service users?

Essi Julin and Tarja Pösö

7 Errors and mistakes in the Norwegian child protection

system

Marit Skivenes and Øyvind Tefre

8 The political- administrative and the professional

approach to errors and mistakes in Swedish child protection

Inger Kjellberg and Staffan Höjer

9 Errors and mistakes in child protection in Switzerland: a

missed opportunity of refl ection?

Brigitte Müller, Kay Biesel and Clarissa Schär

10 Discourses, approaches and strategies on errors and

mistakes in child protection in Germany

Heinz Kindler, Christine Gerber and Susanna Lillig

11 Dysfunctions in French child protection

Hélène Join- Lambert and Gilles Séraphin

12 Errors and mistakes in child protection: an unspoken

issue in Italy?

Teresa Bertotti

13 Preventing and responding to errors in US child protection

Jill Duerr Berrick and Jaclyn Chambers

14 Dealing with errors and mistakes in child

protection: similarities and differences among countries

Kay Biesel, Judith Masson, Nigel Parton and Tarja Pösö

About the Author

Kay Biesel is Professor of Child and Youth Services, focusing on child protection, at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.

Judith Masson is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bristol.

Nigel Parton is Professor of Applied Childhood Studies at the University of Huddersfield.

Tarja Ps is Professor of Social Work at Tampere University.

Reviews

"I would highly recommend this book for social workers, academics and researchers in the area of child protection and welfare, particularly those with an interest in child protection internationally. It should be compulsory reading for all social workers in child protection in Ireland." The Irish Social Worker