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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; youthwork 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. OrganiIndividual | 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 + 182 +
