Children in immediate danger: emergency removals in Finnish and Irish child protection

dc.contributor.authorLamponen, Tuuli
dc.contributor.authorPösö, Tarja
dc.contributor.authorBurns, Kenneth
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-12T12:27:11Z
dc.date.available2019-02-12T12:27:11Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-11
dc.date.updated2019-02-12T12:10:19Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents a qualitative analysis of front‐line practices regarding emergency removals in Finnish and Irish child protection. It examines how the responses to children's immediate danger are framed by legislation and how front‐line practitioners assess the child's situation and make emergency placement decisions. The data consist of interviews with 16 Irish and 33 Finnish social workers. These child welfare protection systems respond differently to a task that appears to be similar. The Irish team‐based practice rests on the social workers' shared assessment of the child's needs, and the formal decision is made by the courts (or police officers at night‐time); and the Finnish practice involves only one single social worker who makes both the assessment and the removal decision. The Irish system is tightly time regulated, whereas the Finnish system provides a more flexible time frame. Both approaches put a lot of stress on social workers' practice, which also includes creative workarounds (e.g., “planned emergency removals” in Finland). Future research will need to explore these features from the point of view of a child's right to protection.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationLamponen, T., Pösö, T. and Burns, K. (2018) 'Children in immediate danger: emergency removals in Finnish and Irish child protection', Child and Family Social Work, 2018, pp. 1-8. doi:10.1111/cfs.12628en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cfs.12628
dc.identifier.endpage8en
dc.identifier.issn1356-7500
dc.identifier.issn1365-2206
dc.identifier.journaltitleChild and Family Social Worken
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7481
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.en
dc.rights© 2018, John Wiley & Sons Inc. This is the accepted manuscript version of the following article: Lamponen, T., Pösö, T. and Burns, K. (2018) 'Children in immediate danger: emergency removals in Finnish and Irish child protection', Child and Family Social Work, 2018, pp. 1-8. doi:10.1111/cfs.12628, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12628 . This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.en
dc.subjectChild protectionen
dc.subjectDecision makingen
dc.subjectEmergency removalsen
dc.subjectCross-country studyen
dc.subjectFront-line practiceen
dc.titleChildren in immediate danger: emergency removals in Finnish and Irish child protectionen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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