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Competency – views from one child protection front

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Elisabeth Starbuck
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Abstract

Definitions of competent practice which were developed by a team of child protection workers are reexamined in light of current debates about enterprise competency standards. Such definitions indicate that competence is more aptly analysed in terms of the nature of workers' process objectives and their capacity to work within tensions and contradictions than in terms of listings of specific skills and knowledge.

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Children Australia , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , 1994, pp. 27 - 30
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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