Allen, Dan and Jensen, Bonnie (2024) Safeharbour Greenland: Safely reducing the number of children in Out-of-Home Care. Project Report. Liverpool Hope University.
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Abstract
In Greenland, more than four times as many children are placed in out-of-home care (OHC) as in comparable countries in the Nordic region. This situation is placing significant emotional pressure on children and considerable economic strain on the state child welfare system. Whilst the root cause of overrepresentation has been subject to some research and critical analysis, the focus on what works to safeguard Greenlandic children and prevent their involvement in OHC care has not been considered in equal depth.
This knowledge exchange project entitled 'Safeharbour Greenland: Safely Reducing the Number of Children in Out-of-Home Care' represents a newly formed international collaboration between Ilisimatusarfik Grønlands Universitet and Liverpool Hope University. Funded by the United Kingdom – Greenland Arctic Research Bursaries Scheme, this project enabled a joint effort to build a community of practice that could focus on ways to safeguard Greenlandic children and prevent their involvement in out-of-home care in line with Greenland's National Research Strategy 2022–2030.
In this short report, we summarise our efforts to explore and identify opportunities to develop new models for child protection and pedagogical work with Greenlandic children. The Theory of Change presented here in offers significant potential to enhance child welfare services in Greenland, but also the application of a community of practice that has transferability for other racialised ethnic minority children, including Romani and Traveller children, living in the United Kingdom.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Project Report) |
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| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Dan Allen |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Sep 2024 09:28 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Sep 2024 09:28 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4374 |
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