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Social Policy Journal of New Zealand - Issue 28 July 2006

Table of Contents

Foreword

Policy Papers

From Mopping Up the Damage to Preventing the Flood: The Role of Social Policy in Preventing Violence against Children

      Joan E. Durrant

Cultural Conceptualisation of Child Abuse and Responses to It: An Aboriginal Perspective

      Sue Gordon

Creating a Warm Place Where Children Can Blossom

      Robbie Gilligan

Policy Development Papers

Towards Coherent Care and Education Support Policies for New Zealand Families

      Willem Adema

Stabilisation of the Statutory Child Protection Response: Managing to a Specified Level of Risk Assurance

      James Mansell

Response to “Stabilisation of the Statutory Child Protection Response”

      Eileen Munro

Author’s Reply to Eileen Munro

      James Mansell

Research Papers

The Underlying Instability in Statutory Child Protection: Understanding the System Dynamics Driving Risk Assurance Levels

      James Mansell

The Living Environments of Community-Dwelling Older People Who Become Frail: Another Look at the Living Standards of Older New Zealanders Survey

      Patrick Barrett and Stephen Twitchin with Sharon Kletchko and Faye Ryan

Geographic Micro-Clustering of Homosexual Men: Implications for Research and Social Policy

      Anthony (Tony) Hughes and Peter Saxton

Client Satisfaction with the Early Start Service

      David M. Fergusson, Hildegard Grant, L. John Horwood, Elizabeth M.Ridder

Reviews

Poverty by Ruth Lister, Polity Press, 2004 The Poverty Wars by Peter Saunders, UNSW Press, 2005

      Robert Stephens