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SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE AND EXPECTATION OF CHILD PROTECTION WORKERS IN ESTONIAN MUNICIPALITIES was pointed out the most important benefits Írom supervision: possibility to find solution in supervision process, sharing the experience and concerns with colleagues, discussion and cooperation with colleagues, generating ideas to find solution in case-work and renewed focus on the case, getting the support and confidence. Ihe most common suggestions to improve the efficiency of supervision was pointed out: supervision should be regular, supervision should be more structured, in addition to group supervision individual one is needed, supervision should be obligatory for professional development. This survey raise up questions related to implementation of supervision on the Estonian context: How to organize regular supervision to Child Protection workers in the municipal level? How the funding of supervision has to be organized to ensure the regularity of process? How the Child Protection workers can be motivated to participate in the supervision? BIBLIOGRAPHY BEDDOE, L., Surveillance or Reflection: Professional Supervision in ‘the Risk Society’, British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 40, 2010, 1279-1296. CARPENTER J. et al., The surprisingly weak evidence base for supervision: Findings from a systematic review of research in child welfare practice (2000-2012), Children and Youth Services Review, 2013, 1843-1853. HARVEY, A. — HENDERSON, F., Reflective Supervision for Child Protection Practice — Reaching Beneath the Surface, Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community, 28 (3) (2014) 343-356. HAWKINS, P. — SHOHET, R., Supervision in the helping professions, (3rd ed.), Milton Keynes, UK, Open University Press, 2006. HOLLOWAY, E. — CARROLL, M., Training counselling supervisors. Strategies, Methods and Techniques, SAGE Publications, 1999. KoppeEL, K., Necessary but under-funded: the inner and outer image of social work in Estonia, Journal of Social Work, 6 (2012) 35-41. Korp, E. — RAAK, R., Child protection in local government, Tallinn, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Development Institute, 2004. Lietz, C. A., Implementation of Group Supervision in Child Welfare: Findings from Arizona’s Supervision Circle Project, Child Welfare, Vol. 87, Nr. 6, 2008. * 185 ¢
