2024, Müller, Brigitte, Schoch, Aline, Seglias, Loretta, Schnurr, Stefan, Aeby, Gaëlle, Biesel, Kay, Cottier, Michelle, Droz-Sauthier, Gaëlle, Knüsel, René, Grob, Alexander, Mottier, Véronique

Die Studie «Intapart: Integrität, Autonomie und Partizipation im Kindesschutz: Wie erleben Kinder und Eltern den Kindesschutz?» wurde im Rahmen des Nationalen Forschungsprogramms 76 «Fürsorge und Zwang» des Schweizerischen Nationalfonds realisiert und liegt dem Beitrag zugrunde. Die Studie ging diesen Themen mit einem interdisziplinär ausgerichteten Forschungsdesign nach, das eine rechtliche, eine historische und eine sozialwissenschaftliche Teilstudie zusammenführte. Der vorliegende Beitrag fokussiert aus einer historischen und einer gegenwartsbezogenen sozialwissenschaftlichen Perspektive auf die für das Erleben von Verfahren zentrale Frage der subjektiven Wahrnehmung von Partizipation: Wie nehmen Kinder und Jugendliche ihre Partizipationsmöglichkeiten in zivilrechtlichen Kindesschutzverfahren wahr?

2020-08-18, Schoch, Aline, Aeby, Gaëlle, Müller, Brigitte, Cottier, Michelle, Biesel, Kay, Sauthier, Gaëlle, Schnurr, Stefan

As in other European countries, the Swiss child protection system has gone through substantial changes in the course of the 20th century up to today. Increasingly, the needs as well as the participation of children and parents a ected by child protection interventions have become a central concern. In Switzerland, critical debates around care-related detention of children and adults until 1981 have led to the launch of the National Research Program ‘Welfare and Coercion—Past, Present and Future’ (NRP 76), with the aim of understanding past and current welfare practices. This paper is based on our research project, which is part of this national program. We first discuss three overarching concepts—integrity, autonomy and participation—at the heart of a theoretical framework in order to understand the position of parents and children in child protection proceedings. Secondly, we critically analyze the historical and legal development of the child protection system in Switzerland and its e ects on children and parents from 1912 until today. Thirdly, we give an insight into the current Swiss child protection system, with an investigation of hearings of parents and children conducted by the Child and Adult Protection Authorities (CAPA) based on participant observations. In particular, we show the importance of information exchanges and of signs of mutual recognition. Finally, in light of our findings, we discuss the interplay between socio-historical and legal developments in child protection and their consequences for the integrity, autonomy and participation of the people involved.

2020-03, Biesel, Kay, Cottier, Michelle, Biesel, Kay, Masson, Judith, Parton, Nigel, Pösö, Tarja

This chapter provide an overview and discussion of some of the key concepts and issues on errors and mistakes in child protection. It discuss different definitions on errors and mistakes and the most discussed approaches (including the plague approach; the person approach, the legal approach and the systems approach) together with the challenges of trying to avoid and deal with errors and mistakes in child protection. It demonstrate that a universally agreed definition of error and mistakes in child protection does not exist and that in fatal child protection cases are often seen as the result of errors and mistakes. The chapter discuss a central question in child protection which concerns the responsibility for errors and mistakes, how such responsibility is distributed and avoided, and how power relations both reflect and feed into such processes.