Aineiston nimi

Child Welfare in the Best Interest of the Child: Interviews 2021-2022

Aineistonumero

FSD3786

Pysyvät tunnisteet

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3786
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3786

Aineiston laatu

Kvalitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Pösö, Tarja (Tampere University)

Sisällön kuvaus

The data consists of individual and group interviews related to services for families with children and child welfare. The interviews focus on the assessment of child well-being and the related process in situations where the central question is whether the case is a "child welfare case". The data was collected from child welfare professionals and supervisors in different municipal organizations, as well as from child welfare client workers and experts by experience. The experts are young adults with experience of child welfare themselves and parents with a child who has had client experience of child welfare.

The interviews consist of four different interview frames, each targeting a different group. The interviews with professionals started by presenting the interviewees with a fictional situation related to a contact with a psychologist at a family counselling centre. The following questions deal with what could follow from this contact. First, the interviewees were asked about the assessment process related to the fictional situation. They were asked about who they would potentially undertake an assessment, who in their organization would be doing the assessment and who they would seek to involve in the assessment process. Professionals were also asked whether they had a model for evaluation that guided their activities.

The third section deals with the child and family factors of the fictional situation. Interviewees were asked what information or factors would influence the decision to use services under the Social Welfare Act. This was followed by a discussion of the organization and the service system. Questions included how the services in place influence the assessment and how differences in views about what is in the best interests of the child are resolved. Finally, interviewees were asked how they would seek to ensure that the assessment was carried out in the best interests of the child and what factors might challenge the best interests of the child assessment.

Background information included the role of the interviewee and, for employees, possible information on the work team, supervisor position and job title. The data were organised into an easy to use HTML version at FSD.

Asiasanat

adolescents; child protection; children; evaluation; families; social services; social work; social workers

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Medical and health sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Children (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Specific social services: use and availability (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Social welfare systems/structures (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• General health and well-being (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Kerääjät

• Pösö, Tarja (Tampere University)
• Lamponen, Tuuli (Tampere University)
• Aarnio, Noora (Tampere University)
• Heino, Eveliina (Tampere University)
• Veistilä, Minna (Tampere University)
• Repo, Jenni (Tampere University)

Rahoittajat

• Ministry of Social Affairs and Health

Ajallinen kattavuus

2021 – 2022

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2021-10-01 – 2022-04-01

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havainto/aineistoyksikkötyyppi

Organization/Institution

Event/Process/Activity

Perusjoukko/otos

Child welfare professionals, superiors, client developers and experts by experience

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Havainto/aineistoyksiköiden valinta

Non-probability: Purposive

Teams of evaluation professionals have been invited to participate in a group interview of professionals from a nationwide coverage of the central municipalities of the current wellbeing services counties and occasionally from some smaller municipalities. Teams of evaluation professionals have been invited to participate in a group interview of professionals from a nationwide coverage of the central municipalities of the current wellbeing services counties and occasionally from some smaller municipalities. The superiors have been asked to participate in the same regional logic of the study, so that the superior would be responsible for assessing the service needs of children and families in his/her own organisation. Client developer/experts by experience have been invited to participate from organisations or municipalities organising such activities on a nationwide basis and with the participation of both so-called child and parent experts.

Aineistonkeruun tekniikka

Face-to-face interview

Telephone interview

Web-based interview

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Interview scheme and/or themes

Semi-structured questionnaire

Aineiston määrä

59 transcripts in ODT file format. Additionally, the data were organised into an easy to use HTML version and a CSV version.

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: suomi.

Kvalitatiiviset aineistot ovat saatavilla vain alkuperäiskielellä, niitä ei käännetä.

Datan versio

1.0

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

To prevent identification of respondents, the researcher has anonymised the data by removing information about the interviewees' names, places of residence and workplaces, and by coarsening job titles.

To prevent identification of respondents, the data has been further anonymised in accordance with the researcher's anonymisation guidelines by removing the names and locations of the interviewees at FSD. Changes made at FSD are marked with [[double square brackets]].

Viittausvaatimus

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Malliviittaus

Pösö, Tarja (Tampere University): Child Welfare in the Best Interest of the Child: Interviews 2021-2022 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2023-11-09). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3786

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Varaumat

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Julkaisut aineistosta

Jaakola, A.-M., & Pösö, T. (2022). Lapsen tilanteen arvioiminen lastensuojelussa: analyysia asiakasturvallisuuden ja laadun näkökulmasta. Janus Sosiaalipolitiikan Ja sosiaalityön Tutkimuksen Aikakauslehti, 30(4), 359-375.

Heino, Eveliina, Veistilä, Minna & Lamponen, Tuuli (2023) Changes to assessments of child well-being brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic - Finnish family services and child welfare services supervisors' perspective. European Journal of Social Work.