Child Protective Services Case Study
Risk Assessment in Child Services
Introduction
The topic to be discussed, is the use of risk assessments in cases when children are involved (child welfare). Assuring the wellbeing of these children falls within the job description of their Case Manager/Social Worker. This task can be helped or impeded by the strategies and assessments that are implemented as ways meant to effectively address the issues. The following reviews are of articles that have similar and unique perspectives of this topic.
Article Reviews
Risk assessment in child protective services: A canonical analysis of the case management function.
According to the author, Radha Jagannathan, “Risk assessment is designed to coordinate service provision through prioritization. …show more content…
1). Going from there to discuss how mistakes of the case manager can cause harm to the child, and that limited time and requirements can factor into this. As well as, “the variation in skills among CPS workers is a set up for unreliable case decision making,” (section 1, para.1). Shlonsky argues for, “interest in actuarial risk assessment comes, in part, from increased demands placed on child protective services in an era of declining staff resources, high staff turnover, and increased public accountability, (section 2, para. 2). Noting that most risk assessments are not validated. When reviewing actuarial assesments, workers data tended to produce similar finding, “this is likely due to the fact that actuarial instruments tend to employ risk factors that have more objective scoring criteria and rely less upon subjective judgments,” (section 4.2, para 4). This reiterates the idea that risk assessments are heavily influenced by the workers …show more content…
While I understand that agencies have their own agendas and etc. the collaboration with other agencies should also include the same risk assessments, or an explanation of why those were deemed the most important. As mention in the articles, the factors are all subject to the workers background or the agency’s, the risk assessments all vary, and the amount of things to process in an allotted time leave room for errors. These errors are what leads to news stories of children dying due to lack of action or proper assessment. Which is obviously a critical
Introduction
The topic to be discussed, is the use of risk assessments in cases when children are involved (child welfare). Assuring the wellbeing of these children falls within the job description of their Case Manager/Social Worker. This task can be helped or impeded by the strategies and assessments that are implemented as ways meant to effectively address the issues. The following reviews are of articles that have similar and unique perspectives of this topic.
Article Reviews
Risk assessment in child protective services: A canonical analysis of the case management function.
According to the author, Radha Jagannathan, “Risk assessment is designed to coordinate service provision through prioritization. …show more content…
1). Going from there to discuss how mistakes of the case manager can cause harm to the child, and that limited time and requirements can factor into this. As well as, “the variation in skills among CPS workers is a set up for unreliable case decision making,” (section 1, para.1). Shlonsky argues for, “interest in actuarial risk assessment comes, in part, from increased demands placed on child protective services in an era of declining staff resources, high staff turnover, and increased public accountability, (section 2, para. 2). Noting that most risk assessments are not validated. When reviewing actuarial assesments, workers data tended to produce similar finding, “this is likely due to the fact that actuarial instruments tend to employ risk factors that have more objective scoring criteria and rely less upon subjective judgments,” (section 4.2, para 4). This reiterates the idea that risk assessments are heavily influenced by the workers …show more content…
While I understand that agencies have their own agendas and etc. the collaboration with other agencies should also include the same risk assessments, or an explanation of why those were deemed the most important. As mention in the articles, the factors are all subject to the workers background or the agency’s, the risk assessments all vary, and the amount of things to process in an allotted time leave room for errors. These errors are what leads to news stories of children dying due to lack of action or proper assessment. Which is obviously a critical