Effectiveness of Signs of Safety in the Netherlands
Marianne De Wolff
TNO Child Health
Marianne de Wolff works as Research Scientist at TNO Child Health. She earned a PhD with a meta-analysis on mother-child attachment, and worked for several years as researcher at Leiden University in the Centre for Child and Family Studies. At TNO the main focus of her research is on social-emotional development in children: how professionals in different settings can identify social-emotional problems at an early age. She developed practice guidelines for practitioners in Child Protection Services about attachment relationships and child abuse. Marianne is also involved in evaluation studies of preventive family interventions, such as Signs of Safety.
Remy Vink
TNO Child Health
Remy Vink is sociologist and works as a researcher at TNO Child Health. Her focus is on the prevention of family violence, including child abuse and sexual abuse and also parent abuse. She was project manager of the Signs of Safety -study. She also conducted research on ACE’s and quality of life in Dutch 11/12-year old children. Remy is author of two national guidelines on child abuse: one for workers in Child Protection Services and one for youth health care professionals. Remy developed an instrument for midwives to identify worrying situations in the family during pregnancy and works on several research projects in this field.
Cora Bartelink
Netherlands Youth Institute
Cora Bartelink is a researcher and advisor at Netherlands Youth Institute. The Netherlands Youth Institute is the Dutch national institute for compiling, verifying and disseminating knowledge on children and youth matters. Its main aim is to improve the development of children and young people by increasing the quality and effectiveness of the services rendered to them and their parents. Cora is developing guidelines for professionals working in child welfare and child protection. Subjects of these guidelines are “Out-of-home placement”, “Out-of-home placement in crisis situations”, and “Deciding together with parents and children on appropriate help”. She also conducts research on decision-making on child maltreatment. Research methods include vignette study on reliability of decisions, retrospective case file study on transparency of decisions, and prospective validity study on risk assessment.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Signs of Safety is an innovative strengths-based, safety-focused approach to child protection work. The practitioner focuses on building partnerships with parents and children in situations of alleged or... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Marianne De Wolff (TNO Child Health)
- Remy Vink (TNO Child Health)
- Cora Bartelink (Netherlands Youth Institute)
Topic Area
Child Protection Systems and Strategies at local, national and international levels
Session
Oral 35 » Session 1-Child Protection Systems (09:00 - Wednesday, 4th October, Europe 2 Room)
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