BACKGROUND Family planning is an integral component of maternal and child health services in Ghana. Although knowledge on contraception is universal and most women attend maternal and child health services, contraceptive use remains low among women after delivery. This study aimed to determine factors influencing current use and future contraceptive intentions of women who were attending child ...

In Swedish child welfare, there are no mandatory guidelines on what interventions to use. Local authorities able set their own criteria for implementing or designing interventions. We carried out a survey identify in use Children's Social Services and Child Adolescent Psychiatric Care Sweden. A total of 102 were stated have been use, with between 31 45 different each the four welfare population...

In England, the dominant policy narrative recognises no association between spending on children’s services and quality a limited deprivation. We combined 374 inspection outcomes 2011 2019 with data preventative safeguarding expenditure Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) scores. A multilevel logistic regression model predicting ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ judgements suggests each £100 increase i...

Child and adolescent psychiatrists and general psychiatrists who serve children and adolescents with complex mental health needs, generally find themselves interfacing with multiple child-serving systems, including mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice, developmental disabilities, addictions services, and primary health care. In these systems of care, psychiatrists will likely encounte...

With suicide being the third leading cause of death among young people, early identification of risk is critical, particularly for those involved with the juvenile courts. In this study of court-involved youth (N = 433) in two Midwest counties, logistic regression analysis identified some expected and unexpected findings of important demographic, educational, mental health, child welfare, and j...

BACKGROUND A measure of the proportion of deliveries assisted by skilled attendants is one of the indicators of progress towards achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, which aims at improving maternal health. This study aimed at establishing delivery practices and associated factors among mothers seeking child welfare services at selected health facilities in Nyandarua South district, K...

Case management systems were designed to open the way for increased participation of young people and their families in child welfare interventions, and, their standardised format provides a valuable opportunity to use ICT in social work practice. Existing research is unclear about how effectively case management affects participation, nor, the impact of ICT on social work interventions. This p...

It is widely recognised as problematic that there are generally low levels of engagement with child welfare services from biological and social fathers. The result can be limited resources for children’s care and potentially poor risk assessment and management. This paper reviews the published research from 2000-2010 about the barriers to and facilitators of better father engagement, as well as...

Digital society has created a new situation that challenges the present discourse on public services. Since it is only a recent phenomenon, digital society has not yet been included in the broader filed of social work education and practice. In the present text, we focus on casework with children. The examples described in the text are taken from Scandinavian experiences and reflect our backgro...