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Neglect as a violent act. Assessing Risk or Analyzing Threat?Download this presentation - 146KB PDF AuthorNeil Barber SpeakerNeil Barber OrganisationCharles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga Australia This paper discusses the authors examination of literature and practice responses to the issue of neglect, particularly in the context of undisclosed or unconfirmed domestic violence. The paper considers the effectiveness of risk assessment frameworks applied by child protection workers and other professionals in exploring the causes of parental neglect from an event rather than contextual base. The author argues that considering neglect as a contextual experience, may allow workers to more accurately analyze the threat such neglect poses to children not only from parental omission but also from the causes of such omission - including domestic violence. PresentationPaper BiographyNeil Barber is an academic teaching and researching within the human and community services programs at Charles Sturt University in rural New South Wales. Neil has extensive practice experience over 15 years, in rural communities in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales in generic and specialist roles, including as a specialist child protection worker and as a policy/program adviser to health professionals. Neil coordinates teaching of child and adolescent welfare programs within the undergraduate social work, welfare work and post graduate child welfare courses at Charles Sturt University.
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