Kay Biesel – författare

This comprehensive international study provides a cross-national analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes, as well as lessons to avoid and how to handle them in child protection practice, using research and knowledge from 11 countries in Europe and North America.

Divided into country-specific chapters, each examines the pathways that lead to mistakes happening, the scale of their impact, how responsibilities and responses are decided and how practice and policy subsequently change. Considering the complexities of evolving practice contexts, this authoritative, future-oriented study is an invaluable text for practitioners, researchers and policy makers wishing to understand why child protection fails – and offers a springboard for fresh thinking about strategies to reduce future risk.

This comprehensive international study provides a cross-national analysis of different understandings of errors and mistakes, as well as lessons to avoid and how to handle them in child protection practice, using research and knowledge from 11 countries in Europe and North America.

Divided into country-specific chapters, each examines the pathways that lead to mistakes happening, the scale of their impact, how responsibilities and responses are decided and how practice and policy subsequently change. Considering the complexities of evolving practice contexts, this authoritative, future-oriented study is an invaluable text for practitioners, researchers and policy makers wishing to understand why child protection fails – and offers a springboard for fresh thinking about strategies to reduce future risk.

In Organisationen der Kinderschutzarbeit können latente Fehler schwere Folgen nach sich ziehen, wenn sie nicht rechtzeitig wahrgenommen werden. Erstmals im deutschsprachigen Raum geht diese Studie deshalb der Frage nach, welche Auswirkungen die im Kinderschutz immer wichtiger werdenden und dem Sicherheitsprimat unterliegenden Fehlerdiskussionen und -konzepte auf die organisationale Praxis der Kinderschutzeinrichtungen haben. Auf Grundlage einer qualitativen Evaluationsstudie zeigt Kay Biesel, wie die Jugendämter der Städte Schwerin und Dormagen mit ihren Fehlern im Kinderschutz umgehen.