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TIINA MERKULJEVA
explores the experience and expectations of Child Protection workers in following
types of supervision: the individual, group, team, network and organizational
supervision. Ihe guestionnaire was pilot tested, and modifications was made
before distribution to respondence. The period of survey was from 1.2.2013 to
23.2.2013. According to the data of Social Ministry of Estonia in 2011 there
were 177 child protection workers in 15 municipalities. A link to the online
survey was sent via e-mail to 121 child protection workers, except for 56 workers
from Tallinn Social- and Health protection Department. The purpose was to
focus on the small municipalities. The number of respondents was 106, the 88%
of overall sample. The survey focused on the general information about child
protection workers, information about current professional profile, the types of
supervision offered to Child Protection workers, on the benefits of experienced
supervision, and on suggestions of Child Protection workers to improve the
efficiency of supervision.
THE RESULTS AND FINDINGS OF THE SURVEY
The number of respondents was 106, the 88% of overall sample. The 97% of
respondents are middle-aged women, 71% of respondents have high education
in social work and 21% are educated in non-social work field, 8% have secondary
education. The biggest part of sample (39%) have 4-10 years experiences in
Child Protection. More than half (58%) of respondents have post of Child
Protection specialist, 21% have post of social worker, 10% are different types
of advisers and others 11% are professionals who work in several different areas:
social work and child protection; social-pedagogy and child protection; youth¬
work and child protection. The daily work of 49% of respondents is in fully
related to child protection and 51 % have to spend their working time doing
some other job.
vo. Organi¬
Individual | Group SV- Team SV- Network .
Scale zation Average (%)
SV-on (%) on (%) on (9) SV-on (99)
SV-on (9)
No experience 88.7 70.8 70.8 62.3 84.9 73.2
1-2 times per year | 8.5 17.8 10.4 15.1 12.3 13.0
3-4 times per year | 0.9 7.0 2.8 10.4 0.9 5.3
Single experience | 9.4 24.8 13.2 25.5 13.2 18.2
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