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The underlying instability in statutory child protection: understanding the system dynamics driving risk assurance levels.
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Social Policy Journal of New Zealand
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July 1, 2006
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Abstract
A core component of the level of statutory assurance against the risk of child abuse is hazard detection through notifier surveillance, and through risk screening by both notifiers and the statutory child protection agency. Surveillance and screening are undertaken with a great deal of decisionmaking uncertainty and, as in most public risk-screening decisions, errors are common. In the New Zealand system it was found that increased attention to failed alarms (in the form of child deaths) drove reactive change to increase the level of risk assurance demanded of notifiers and the child protection agency. The combination of high error rates, high-stakes consequences ...
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