"Child protection system – just think differently?"
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Introduction 9
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The post-war era and the sovietisation of the law 11
Family law and the Constitution of the Polish People’s Republic 14
Family law and the 1956 October events 15
The adoption of the Civil Code in 1959 and its separation from the Family Code 17
Guardianship Code 18
Legal considerations of child custody under current law 19
Polish Constitution 19
The principle of the child’s welfare in the Family and Guardianship Code 20
Divorce and termination of parental authority 22
The scope of parental authority 26
The right to contact the child 36
authority 37
Conclusion 44
(Petr Fabián) 49 Childcare in the period from 1918 to 1938 49
Childcare during the communist era 50
Childcare in the democratisation era – after 1989 53
and legal protection of children (SLPC) in the Czech Republic 54
Changes in philosophy and related laws 55
Deinstitutionalisation 55
Forms of assistance 57
and legal protection 59
Politicisation of assistance 59
Children and their world 60
Risk areas of the substitution of goals 60
The client in the new approach 60
Biological families 61
Foster families 62
Institutional facilities 62
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New tasks and challenges for social workers 63
Accompanying organisations and their tasks 64
Implementing substitute family care under the new regulations 66
Working with vulnerable children 66
Assistance to children placed outside their family 67
Impact on the child 68
Impact on the substitute family 68
Facilities for children requiring immediate assistance 69
Non-family assistance – institutional care 69
Child centres 70
Children’s homes 70
protection 71
Context of Changes in the Slovak System of SubstituteEducational Care in the Years 1989–2019 (Albín Škoviera) 75 The wider context of changes 76
Postmodernity as a negation of modernity 76
Political, economic and social changes after 1989 77
Critical reflection on the past 78
Convention on the Rights of a Child – Communication No. 104/1991 Coll 79
The aftermath of the division of Czechoslovakia 80
Inter-ministerial tensions 81
Professional (un)preparedness of the sector 84
Stages of the transformation process 84
The 1990–1996 period 85
The 1997–2005 period 87
The 2006–2018 period 89
Conclusion 93
The period after 2019 93
The Child Protection System in England and Wales (Joanna Gorczowska) 97 The Cleveland inquiry 101
The Children Act of 1989 102
The Children Act of 2004 106
Taking a child away from family 109
Foster care 111
Adoption 115
Conclusion 118
Assessment of the Presented Models (Petr Fabián) 123 Introduction 123
The Polish model 123
The Czech model 126
The Slovak model 128
The British model 131
Finding new ways 133
Nature and normality 134
What is normal 134
transgenerational transmission 135
Dilemmas of the current models 136
Comparison of the four systems and their overlaps 140
Legal aspects of the change 140
Family forms of assistance 143
Institutional forms of assistance – Children’s homes and other institutions 143
Cooperation with the child’s family 144
Benefits for practice 145
The change in the philosophy of assistance 145
The time limit of assistance 146
Assistance management 147
Forms of assistance 147
Conclusion 148
About the Authors 151