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Terry Murphy — previously Director General of the Department of Child Protection and Family Support in Western Australia — has joined Resolutions Consultancy to bring his experience and leadership skills to the international Signs of Safety community. Terry joins Resolutions …
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On May 6, Alberta Human Services formally commenced the largest international system-wide implementation of the Signs of Safety. The implementation of Signs of Safety across Alberta builds on the key directions set by Outcome Based Service Delivery (OBSD) seeking to …
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The past few months have seen a range of publications about the Signs of Safety, exploring safety planning and research of the approach: Child Care in Practice Lwin, K. Versanov, A., Cheung, C., Goodman, D. and Andrews, N. (2014). The …
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Keeping the rumour of good child protection practice alive! The 7th International Signs of Safety Gathering will be held next year in Leicester, England April 9–11, 2014. This Gathering will have many international presentations and will also have a strong …
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Signs of Safety™ is an approach to child protection practice used across Western Australia. In 2013, in its fifth year of state-wide implementation, the Department for Child Protection and Family Support (DCPFS) has engaged the Australian Centre for Child Protection …
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Casey Family Programs, in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Human Services, contracted with Wilder Research to conduct an evaluation and chronicle of two jurisdictions within Minnesota with long histories of implementing the Signs of Safety framework: Carver County and …
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The National Society for the Prevention for Cruelty to Children, (NSPCC) in England commissioned the preparation of a comprehensive report about the use of the Signs of Safety in England. The report was written by Amanda Bunn and was released …
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Two recent English reviews of practice (Gardner, 2008 and DSCF, 2009) have identified the problem that the ‘recent emphasis on strengths based approaches and the positive aspects of families (for example in the Common Assessment Framework) arguably discourages workers from …
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John Wheeler and Viv Hogg recently published a book chapter documenting the evidence base supporting the Signs of Safety approach. The chapter is called Signs of Safety and the Child Protection Movement, and is published in C. Franklin, T. Trepper, …
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