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Expectations of contemporary child protection apparatuses are strongly influenced by beliefs inherited from the nineteenth century child rescue movement. In particular, the belief that child abuse determination is obvious. However, this assumption fails to make a distinction between nineteenth century's emphasis on impoverished environments and the twentieth century introduction of the pathological child abuser. Moreover, the proliferation of kinds of child abuse, and the need to distinguish child abusers from non-abusers, means knowledge is now spread across an array of disciplines and professions, which necessarily destabilizes the definition of child abuse. The increasing exposure of alternate care systems as potentially abusive has similarly destabilized the old common sense solution to neglected children—namely removal. Finally, as uncertainty increases, and definitions become more divergent, the question of what child abuse is, and what should be done about it, becomes increasingly politicized.

Child sexual abuse can cause significant physical and emotional harm to a child, which lasts into adulthood. What are the myths and misunderstandings about child sexual abuse? The book explores the prevalence, forms and impacts of child sexual abuse, and the responses to disclosure of child abuse by children and survivors. How can society break the silence, bring perpetrators to light, and better protect our children? Also includes: worksheets and activities, fast facts, glossary, web links, index.

Part 1.Proceedings before the tribunal --Introduction --Tribunal procedure --Discretion and bias --Decision-making powers --Rule-making powers --Part 2.Review of tribunal's action --Appeals from tribunal decisions -- Judicial review procedure -- Scope of judicial review -- Judicial remedies.

SUMMARY: One of the major paradoxes in child protective services in the United States is that children removed from their homes on protective orders and placed in foster and group care face continued abuse. These children are reported at two to three times the rates of children living with their families.Investigations are performed by the very system that marks placements. In the US, some recommend resolving these problems by withdrawing from the active protection of children in care. Others hold that because children are in the care and custody of the state, and demand a higher standard of care, specialised prevention, identification. reporting and investigation initiatives are necessary to ensure their safety. This has important implications for other countries, especially the United Kingdom with its recent spate of inquiries into abuse in residential care.

Governments apply policies to alleviate administrative burdens especially for small businesses so as to increase their flexibility and viability. The objective of this article is the reduction of administrative burdens. The article presents a European initiative applying a method for measuring the costs incurred by small and medium enterprises on finding information for performing a public service. The method has been applied in five rural areas in Europe. In this article, a Greek case is analytically described. The research results provide guidelines to policy and decision makers for fighting businesses' administrative burdens of the informational phase of public services.

Ease of doing business is an integrated approach to improve delivery of various services for running an enterprise through regulatory reforms. Several parameters have been identified by the World Bank, which ranks 190 countries, including India, based on the reform initiatives undertaken by them. India has made significant progress in the rankings. However, there are still areas where there is huge scope for improvement. Despite the political push, it is the responsiveness of the administrative system that holds the key. Indian bureaucracy is often blamed for its 'personnel, paperwork, and process' orientation. This article is an attempt to analyse the response of the bureaucracy in four select parameters: (a) starting a business, (b) getting electricity, (c) registering property and (d) getting credit. The rationale behind their selection is that, though all businesses have to negotiate the processes, these four have direct interface with the service delivery agencies, and there is greater measurability of their responsiveness in general.

In the 19th century, reform efforts to eliminate cruelty to children focused on physical abuse; today, the primary referent is sexual abuse. Here, it is argued that the bureaucratization & institutionalization of compassion for sufferers of child abuse, the national legislature's failure to grant particular human rights to children, & the approval of subsequent legislation that made child abuse reporting mandatory among professionals represent political & ideological conflicts between conservatism & liberalism that commenced during the 1960s. Continuing conflict has led to a conservative backlash against liberalism & to a discrediting of compassion. Nevertheless, federal legislation legalized public compassion toward children. It is argued that the selective emphasis on sexual abuse, & its construction as a social problem, have failed to address the social & racial components of child maltreatment. Thus, public compassion remains sentimental & private. 91 References. J. W. Parker

The administrator is always to some extent an initiator of values, partly as a representative of some interest group or groups, but also independently, in his own right. He can never by completely governed by others, and, as a matter of fact, he has considerable latitude of choice before the consequences of his decisions will bring reactions that threaten survival. — Simon, Smithberg, and Thompson, Public Administration, 1950 Administrative procedures are more important in effectuating the basic principles of government than is substantive law. — David M. Levitan, "Political Ends and Administrative Means," Public Administration Review, 1943.