SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indian Act, Child Protection
30 Apr 2016
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Social work with children and youth (child welfare) Many canadian children living in poverty: especially immigrants, indigenous children and minority children. These children are at a disadvantage: lower health, lower level of education, victimization, behavioural problems. Family violence represents acts of violence committed against children/youth. Increase in rates of children witnessing domestic violence. Dramatic increase more maltreatment or more reported. Most substantial categories are intimate partner violence and neglect common for indigenous families due to structural factors. Children used to be owed by their parents and they had economic values. Children as vulnerable individuals in need of protection. Seen as in vulnerable and in need of protection. The act for the protection and reformation of neglect children (1891) The act for the prevention of cruelty (kelso) Influential in convincing canadian government to give power to cas to remove children (1940s present) There was a concern for the child welfare system. Put in residential schools learned a different language (1950s-1980s)
