{"id":16268,"date":"2024-11-28T11:34:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T03:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/swk\/?page_id=16268"},"modified":"2025-02-12T13:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T05:43:37","slug":"seminar-feb-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/swk\/seminar-feb-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Seminar: Feb 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\t\tSeminar\n\t<\/h5>\n

\n\t\tBuilding Strong Child Protection Systems –
From Prevention to Recovery\n\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRegistration is closed\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n

\n\t\tSynopsis\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

All countries must seek to work out the ways in which they will protect vulnerable children within their own cultural, societal and legal context. In recent decades important work has been undertaken to better understand the differences in approaches to child protection and family welfare across international jurisdictions. While the number of children dying from abuse and neglect has decreased significantly in most economically wealthy countries, there is a still a concern in many countries that the child protection response remains focused on reacting to the harm child have experienced, rather than preventing this. Many countries continue to see a rise in the numbers of children notified to authorities due to abuse and neglect, particularly around physical neglect and emotional harm, despite decades of efforts to address child maltreatment.<\/p>\n

This presentation draws upon international research evidence, undertaken by the speaker and others, to discuss how a focus on childhood adversity can ensure a more comprehensive understanding of the fuller range of harms children experience, and the roles that different professionals can fulfil. In addition, the presentation will discuss how this can also help us to view both how <\/em>we intervene and when<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The presentation will be informed by findings from research projects that have sought to look at how adversity impacts on children across their life, how children can be supported to speak to safe adults about any concerns, and how professionals can work together to keep children safe while also helping families to address issues of concern.<\/p>\n

In doing so, the presentation will address the question, what would a strong child centred, child protection system look like?<\/p>\n\t\"\"18 February 2025, Tuesday
\n<\/strong>10:00AM – 12:00PM\n

 <\/p>\n\t\"\"Shaw Foundation Alumni House
\n<\/strong>Auditorium
\n\n

 <\/p>\n\tRegistration Fee
\n<\/strong>$20 per person (non-refundable)
\n<\/strong>\n

*Bulk discount of 20%<\/strong> is available for groups of 5 or more.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\tEnquiries
\n<\/strong>Email to swkseminar@nus.edu.sg<\/a>
\n\n

\n\t\tSpeaker\n\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\"John\n\tDr John Devaney<\/strong>
\nDean and Head of the School of Social and Political Science, and
\nCentenary Chair of Social Work,
\nUniversity of Edinburgh\n\t

Dr John Devaney is the Centenary Professor of Social Work, and Dean of the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Before entering academia he worked as a practitioner, manager and policy maker in social services in the United Kingdom. He has acted as an expert advisor on child protection matters to a number of governments and the European Union. He is a former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. In his academic role he has undertaken research investigating the broad area of family violence, with a particular focus on child homicide, child maltreatment, child welfare policy, domestic violence, intimate partner homicide, and the impact of adversity in childhood across the lifecourse. He has an interest in comparative social policy, evaluations of practice and interventions, and policy development.<\/p>\n

\n\t\tDiscussant\n\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\"Yogeswari\"\n\tMs Yogeswari Munisamy
\n<\/strong>NUS PhD Candidate; and
\nSenior Principal Social Worker,
\nChild Protective Service,
\nMinistry of Social and Family Development\n

<\/p><\/strong>\n\t

Yogeswari Munisamy graduated from Washington University (USA) in 2003 with master’s in social work and is currently an NUS PhD candidate. Her PhD research is on trauma-informed supervision and its impact on secondary traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth in social work supervisees. Her 28 years of social work experience includes being a Senior Principal Social Worker in MSF Child Protective Services and holding leadership roles in community settings. She is also a part-time lecturer in NUS Department of Social Work and teaches the masters module on Family and Interpersonal violence. Yoges is an experienced clinician, supervisor and trainer in the areas of supervision, trauma, care and resilience of the professional, and social and systems intervention with vulnerable families for local and overseas practitioners. Yoges has experience providing Supervision of Supervisory practice in the community, hospital and child protection settings. She is a strong believer in upstream preventative work such as protective behaviours programme for children and their care givers to prevent abuse and recurrences.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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