Child Protection and Disability ― Practical Challenges for Research

This volume explores the ethical, methodological, and practical challenges in conducting child protection research with deaf and disabled children and young people. What are the child protection concerns for deaf and disabled children and young people? What are their views about the child protection system? How can we measure if we have made a difference in ending child abuse and neglect? These questions and others are at the forefront of policy, practice, and research debates. Chapters draw on examples of child protection and disability research from an international spectrum of leading research in both the child protection and the disability fields. This book is written for postgraduate students and academics in health, social care, and education. [Subject: Social Work & Policy, Child Research]

Dr Deborah Fry is a Lecturer in Child Protection and co-leads the Safe Inclusive Schools Network at the University of Edinburgh, Moray HouseSchool of Education. Dr Patricia Lannen is the UBS Optimus Foundation’s program director for child protection and has been involved in research on vulnerablechildren for fifteen years. Dr Jennifer Vanderminden is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Dr Audrey Cameron worked as a Research Fellow in Child Protection(Disabilities) at the University of Edinburgh (2013–15) and is a very active member of the Deaf community. Tabitha Casey is Project Manager for the Safe Inclusive Schools Networkat the University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education.