‘Changing the way we do child protection’: The implementation of Signs of Safety® within the Western Australia Department for Child Protection and Family Support

Mary Salveron, Leah Bromfield, Clara Kirika, Jane Simmons, Terry Murphy and Andrew Turnell

Children and Youth Services Review, 2015, vol. 48, issue C, 126-139

Abstract: This paper describes a six-year large scale implementation of the Signs of Safety practise framework in a complex statutory child protection context in Western Australia. The case study documents both the practitioner-led and organisational-led implementation journey as part of the State's child protection system reform drawing on Roger's diffusion of innovation theory and Fixsen's five stage implementation model as conceptual frameworks, and highlighting the key facilitators and barriers.

Keywords: Signs of Safety; Implementation; Child protection; Diffusion of innovation; Organisational change; Practise model/framework/approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.11.011

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