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An Approach to Care Models for Disabled Children in Need of Protection in Selected Countries

Burak Küsmez, Abdullah Selim Doğan

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38–57
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2025-07-25
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Abstract

Children in need of protection have been the subject of various services over the years as subjects for whom the states feel responsible. Governments have primarily focused on providing remedial services to children in need of protection and have assumed less responsibility for protection and prevention. As a result of this situation, uniform care models have existed in various countries for years. Still, the fact that children are not uniform has revealed that care models should not be uniform either. As a result, multiple transformations have occurred. These transfor mations were aimed at increasing the wellbeing of children in need of protection and occurred in parallel with the welfare models of the states. Children in need of protection experience multiple socioeconomic disadvantages. Children who have lost their parents or who are not cared for by their parents may face many disadvantages that accompany this disadvantage. When these children also have a disability, the compounded effects of vulnerability and exclusion intensify, and life can become much more difficult for them. In this study, the child protection systems of countries representing various welfare models will be examined, and the practices for disabled children in need of protection in these systems will be comparatively evaluated and discussed.

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Küsmez, B., Doğan, A. S. (2025). An Approach to Care Models for Disabled Children in Need of Protection in Selected Countries. Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi, Sayı: 88, 38–57. https://doi.org/10.26650/jspc.2025.88.1618261

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