This resource sheet provides a brief history of developments in child protection services in Australia and internationally. Social and political interest in the protection of children from abuse or neglect at the hands of caregivers is a relatively recent phenomenon. Since the early colonial days in ...
New Directions in child protection and family support in Western Australia: a policy initiative to re‐focus child welfare practice There is now considerable evidence from numerous countries that statutory child welfare agencies are being overwhelmed by a massive increase in child prote... Parton,...
Weak laws concerning child protection are also associated with exploitation, such as live-streaming CSA, in poorer countries (Dushi, 2019). As many leads come from overseas authorities instead of local law enforcement (Brown, 2016), collaboration is an issue including the lack of harmonization in...
Belgium held a huge White March on 20 March 1996 to demand better protection for children and a better functioning justice system after the Marcel Dutroux affair, when a serial killer and torturer of young girls with associations to politicians was exposed. Has much changed since? All countries ...
evaluation of their jurisdiction's legal framework; the current contrast between jurisdictions, and particularly the absence in Western Australia of mandatory reporting legislation, recently prompted the Commonwealth Attorney-General to endorse substantial equality in legislation concerning child protection. The...
International child protection standards aim to en Walker-Simpson,Karen - 《Child Abuse Review Ejournal of the British Association for the Study & Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect》 被引量: 4发表: 2017年 Reporting suspected child abuse: Suggested guidelines. This chapter provides some suggested...
inasmuch as women with children may not be discriminated against because of their status as parents or caregivers in a way that men with children are not. Importantly, these laws do not provide affirmative support for caregivers but allow standing for a lawsuit in case of unlawful discrimination....
The present child protection systems in Australia are costly and cannot be sustained in terms of workforce capacity. They are also not effective in reducing family and community vulnerability to child abuse and neglect. We will always need to spend money to address the result of maltreatment. Our...
policy and legal level changes to prevent oppression that poses risks to LGBTQI+ children and young people (such as legal reform; providing information on sexuality and gender; and advocating for dedicated resources for prevention and protection programmes targeting, or at least including, LGBT...
Laws did not protect children against cruelty until the modern period unless they were beaten to death; as one thirteenth-century law put it, “If one beats a child until it bleeds, then it will remember, but if one beats it to death, the law applies.”304Since children were beaten wit...