Centre for Quality Development in Child Protection in Carinthia

(V.D.03) Education, (V.D.10) Vulnerable Families

The Centre for Quality Development in Child Protection in Carinthia aims to ensure that comprehensive child protection knowledge is included in the training and further education of the many professional groups (e.g. primary school teachers, school teachers, doctors, police officers, psychosocial professionals) who deal with children, adolescents and families in the best possible way. The responsibility for child protection must be clearly perceived in all professions, facilities, and institutions. For this purpose, there is an intensive exchange in partnership with all those involved – in the sense of a coordinated alliance for child protection.
An important concern is to create optimal framework conditions for child protection in Carinthia.

The aim is to ensure that help and support for families in challenging situations is accepted at an early stage so that violence, abuse, exploitation, and neglect in its worst forms can be averted as comprehensively as possible. The Unit follows a tripolar understanding of child protection based on Reinhart Wolff and attaches particular importance to a balanced further development strategy on the three levels: community-oriented child protection, family-supporting child protection, and risk-oriented child protection.

Official Name of Signatory

State of Carinthia (Austria)

Delegation

Europe

Website of the Signatory

Name of the person presenting the Good Practice

Mag. (FH) Raphael Schmid

Position/Job Title of person presenting the Good Practice

Head of sub-department

Aim of the Good Practice

'- Centrally coordinated further development of interdisciplinary, preventive, and reactive child protection in Carinthia, oriented towards the scientific state-of-the-art. - To increase the competence of the various professional groups responsible for child protection and to expand interprofessional cooperation. - Increase child protection awareness among the (professional) public.

Target Group of the Good Practice

The entire population of Carinthia

Implementation period

Continuous processing

Consistency over time

Continuity and sustainability are ensured by the installation of the specialized unit, its anchoring at the level of the provincial administration, and the provision of expert staff.

Evaluation of the Good Practice

The unit sees itself as a learning organization and uses the requirements and processes of quality management inherent in the state administration for its own reflection and further development. In addition, there are regular external evaluations of relevant activities and services.

Key stakeholders and partnerships

The entire public is relevant to child protection, the professional public, as well as relevant administrative structures and political responsibilities in Carinthia, Austria, and the surrounding countries.

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Future Goal 1

Long-term continuity of the Centre for Quality Development in Child Protection in Carinthia as part of the provincial administration.

Future Goal 2

Staff continuity

Future Goal 3

At least constant personnel resources