Case Management Systems and Accountability: Social Work in Child Protection Projects l 2009
- Document number
- 2297
- Date
- 2009
- Title
- Case Management Systems and Accountability: Social Work in Child Protection Projects l 2009
- Author/publisher
- Dr. Patrick O’Leary, University of Bath, University of South Australia & Jason Squire, Terre des hommes
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Family reunification, Guardian, Family Tracing, Age Assessment, Freedom from Detention, Interim Care, Integration, Adoption,
- Summary
- This document focuses on implementing a case management system during the initial start up phases of an emergency child protection project. The concepts are not exclusive to emergency projects and hold strong relevance to the inclusion of the system into existing development projects. The document provides useful guidelines and tools for improving social work. Case management is an important resource in providing the highest quality service to vulnerable children in very challenging circumstances that arise out of humanitarian work. For it to be successfully implemented it requires project leadership at a number of levels. Leadership comes primarily through seeing the value of the system as central to promoting child rights. This requires pillars of support to be built and sustained, especially amongst staff but also in other activities such as resource identification, project tool development and capacity training of staff. These activities keep the intervention child focused
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