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Social Policy Journal of New Zealand - Issue 28 July 2006

Table of Contents

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

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