May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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services are transferrable at least to some of the families
that are served in the child protection context so the
separation of workers and skills may no longer apply if
you're using more and more of these kinds of approaches in
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your child protection stream.
You will not be, in family
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enhancements services, doing the same -- taking the same
focus on investigation but you, you, you may distinguish
between families that need that approach and those that
don't.
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Okay.
Have I muddied the waters?
Maybe a little bit but we'll try and sort that
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out. What's the ideal approach? Is it ideal to have
separate workers doing family enhancement and protection or
is there an ideal?
A I'm not sure there is. I think we need more
evidence to establish what that ideal is, and one of my
concerns is that we don't evaluate the, in a long -- we
don't do enough evaluation over the long term to determine
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the evidence about which model works the best.
My concern
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would be about sort of folding the separateness of the
family enhancement stream into child protection prematurely
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is that you lose that special focus.
On the other hand,
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you know, there is enough evidence that it can work across
for many of the families that are traditionally served by
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