Mandatory Reporting Practices and Evaluations of Child Protection—A Case Study on Taiwan
Taiwan has standardized the roles,responsibilities and practical procedures of all parties involved in mandatory child protection reporting,providing clear guidance for the development of protection services.In order to further investigate its experience in system construc-tion,this paper constructs an evaluation system for the practical operation of mandatory reporting,and uses the entropy weight TOPSIS method to make a comprehensive evaluation,and finds that the responsible entity reporting and protection placement in the horizontal protec-tion system plays a prominent role,but the operation of the vertical protection system has the problem of insufficient stability and poor com-prehensive effect.On this basis,it points out three major challenges in the development of mandatory reporting practice in Taiwan:the gap between the standardization of institutional design and the practical difficulties in practical operation,the conflict between the protection ser-vice stylization and the professional autonomy of social workers,and the deviation between institutional value orientation and the pursuit of implementation goals,in order to bring inspiration to the practical ability of child protection in mainland China.