ABSTRACT
Informal social care responses to address and prevent child abuse and neglect occur daily in a myriad of ways including a grandparent caring for their grandchildren, neighbors lending a hand by providing food and nurturing, and a friend assisting with support and aid to help a distressed parent. On the other hand, formal social care responses are delivered by the community through organizations and, in the case of child protection systems, we examined their chronic failings in Chapter 4. In this chapter we outline how the many problems that currently exist in these policy making and service delivery mechanisms can be attended to, and in many instances, satisfactorily addressed. We do not claim that our suggested frameworks are ideal-every organizational system has its own strengths and problems. However, they will probably make substantial improvements upon the current structural and organizational approaches to the vexed issues entailed in preventing child abuse and neglect.
