“一项要求很高的措施”:从业者为改善寄养家庭的实践和政策做出贡献

IF 0.4 Q4 SOCIAL WORK
Elisete Simoes Diogo, Francisco Branco
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寄养家庭为有危险的儿童提供一个家庭环境。然而,在葡萄牙,寄养计划似乎严重缺乏政治投资,目前只有大约191名儿童被安置在寄养家庭。为了增加这些数字,我们需要倾听为寄养照顾者提供支持的社会工作者的声音,并给予他们发言权。本实证研究采用了一种定性方法,基于对在仅有的两个提供寄养计划的组织中工作的从业者的访谈。定性分析受到分类分析的启发。调查结果表明,迫切需要采取政策行动,培训整个儿童保护系统的工作人员,以保证服务质量标准。此外,这应与针对一般公众的大规模宣传运动结合起来。这将提供寄养家庭的真实社会形象,并改善其征聘和保留。
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“A highly demanding measure”: practitioner contributions to improving practice and policy for foster families
Foster families provide at-risk children with a family environment. In Portugal, however, there appears to be a major lack of political investment in foster care programmes, with only around 191 children currently placed with a foster family. To increase these numbers, we need to listen and give a voice to the social workers who provide support to foster carers. This empirical study uses a qualitative methodology based on interviews with practitioners working in the only two organisations offering a foster care programme. The qualitative analysis is inspired by categorical analysis. The findings suggest an urgent need for policy action to train workers throughout the child protection system so as to guarantee service quality standards. Moreover, this should be combined with a mass information campaign aimed at the general public. This would provide a real social image of foster families, as well as improving their recruitment and retention.
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