Regulation in Child Protection—Policy Failure?

Abstract

This paper examines child protection policy formulation and implementation. It suggests that policy has been incrementally formed in an expedient fashion to suit the political and organizational status quo. It draws upon models of issue ascendancy, policy analysis and inspection, and argues that child protection policy is regulatory in nature yet lacks the prerequisites normally found in regulation. It examines perceived policy failure and demonstrates that this results from partial policy formulation and lack of clarity in objectives.

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