Analyze the rise of conservatism in the 1970s, to what extent was the movement successful?
The Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Child Family and Community Australia (CFCA) (2014) identified that the current approach to child protection in Australia has acknowledged the roles the state and territory governments must play in protecting all children from abuse and neglect. It also explained that governments had assumed their obligation in meeting the essential developmental needs of all children, particularly those children whose parents cannot or do not provide a safe, protective environment or whose parents are responsible for the abuse or neglect these children experienced.
The Community and Disability Services Ministerial Advisory Committee (CDSMAC) developed the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009’2020 (COAG 2009) which included a wide range of child protection strategies and interventions that the state and territory governments will implement to prevent child abuse and neglect. The focus of these mixed strategies and interventions will be on the provision of primary service and early prevention programs which will be carried out and coordinated by non- government agencies as these have received government funding, including the provision of out of home care services.
All social policy including child protection policies are the result of government legislation, which is the result of a political process, and all policies are the result of an inherent political, ideological process. As critical social workers, it is essential that we are attentive, try to understand and question the changing social and political context in which policies and public interventions are developed and implemented. It is important to be critically aware of the effect of a dominant ideologic
