Sijaishuoltoprosessin alkuvaihe Laaban Oy:ssä

Teimme opinnäytetyömme Laaban Oy:n toiveesta. Laaban Oy on yksityinen lastensuojelulaitos, johon kuuluu kaksi yksikköä; Riihenmäen Ryhmäkoti sekä Ryhmäkoti Metsäpolku. Laaban Oy:llä on käytössään toimintakäsikirja, joka osaltaan ohjaa yrityksen toimintaa. Toimintakäsikirjaan sisältyy prosessikuvaukset, joista taas yksi osa on uuden asiakkaan tulo- ja muuttoprosessi. Opinnäytetyömme tarkoituksena on uuden asiakkaan eli sijoitetun lapsen tulo- ja muuttoprosessin kartoittaminen. Kartoittamisella tarkoitamme tässä yhteydessä tulo- ja muuttoprosessin rakenteen, kulun ja käytänteiden näkyväksi tekemistä. Tarkoituksena on kerätä kokemuksiin perustuvaa tietoa työntekijöiltä ja yksiköissä asuvilta lapsilta tulo- ja muuttoprosessista. Lisäksi tarkoituksenamme on löytää tulo- ja muuttoprosessiin liittyviä toimivia käytänteitä sekä kehittämiskohteita. Keräämämme tiedon on tarkoitus toimia apuna ja pohjana Laaban Oy:n johtoryhmälle prosessikuvauksen laatimiseen. Prosessikuvauksen funktiona on välittää koko työyhteisön hiljaista tietoa yksilötasolle, eli päivittää pitkäaikaisten työntekijöiden tietämystä, nopeuttaa uuden työntekijän orientoitumista työhön ja ennen kaikkea nopeuttaa ja helpottaa uuden lapsen tulo- ja muuttoprosessia ja lapsen asettumista. Opinnäytetyömme on tutkimusosio on luonteeltaan laadullinen. Aineistonkeruumenetelmänä käytimme fokusryhmähaastatteluja sekä parihaastatteluja. Haastattelimme kummankin ryhmäkodin lapsia sekä työntekijöitä erikseen. Analyysimenetelmänä käytimme sisällönanalyysia.First steps in the fostercare process in laaban oy The main study for our thesis was commissioned by the Laaban Oy. Laaban Oy is a private, non-governmental and non-municipal child welfare organization, consisting of two separate units, Riihenmäen Ryhmäkoti and Ryhmäkoti Metsäpolku. Laaban Oy has in its use a directive that gives the company its operative guidelines. The directive includes process descriptions, one part of them dealing with the entry, transfer and moving process of a new customer in the child welfare service. Our thesis aimed to map out this process. By mapping out we mean the charting of the structure, progression and the conventions in the case in question. Our main goal is to gather data and information based on the knowledge of the staff and children living in these particular units. We intended to find existing conventions, which were stated as being functional and we also tried to point out subjects that required improvement. The gathered data will operate as a template and help the Laaban Oy executive group to work on the new process descriptions. The function of the process descriptions was to provide tacit knowledge from the whole working community to the individual level. This knowledge gathered together should upgrade the know-how of long-term -employees, speed up the orientation of new employees and above all, ease the moving and settling down of a new child. The nature of the thesis’ research section was qualitative. The data was collected in focus group-interviews. We interviewed the children and the employees from both of the units as separate groups. The interviews were analysed with content analysis

Public value creation mechanisms in the context of public service logic : an integrated conceptual framework

This conceptual paper maintains that mainstream public management theories have failed to incorporate public services as a fundamental part of the public administration system. That failure does a disservice to the potential of public services to address societal betterment through the creation of public value, which can strengthen democracy. This paper presents an integrated conceptual framework to help make sense of the public value creation flows in the context of politics (encompassing public policy and public service goal attainment) and public service outcomes. We suggest there are four flows creating public value.© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Is there a place for children in the making of public policy? Insights from the research evidence

Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child stipulates that children have a right to express their views with this article being one of the most frequently cited principles in the convention. This scoping review summarises the existing research evidence on how children participate in the making of public policy. This paper concludes that a plethora of practical guidelines and gray literature are available addressing children as policy-making partners, but the empirical research around the subject is very rare. Children’s participation should be planned prior to any planned public policy reforms – and to be supported by appropriate academic research integrated into the different stages of the policymaking processes. If policymakers are willing to develop mechanisms for children’s participation in the policy cycle, children’s role and agency will be clarified. It seems that there is a need for new sensemaking in terms of how adults treat the value of children´s participation and how to include children in the policymaking process around the subjects that matter to them. Participatory practices should be co-created with children, not for them