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The link between hearing impairment and child maltreatment among Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory of Australia: is there an opportunity for a public health approach in child protection?

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background International studies provide evidence of an association between child disabilities, including hearing impairment (HI), and child maltreatment.
Vincent Yaofeng He, Steven Guthridge, Jiunn-Yih Su, Damien Howard, Kylie Stothers, Amanda Leach   +5 more
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Contact with child protection services during pregnancy: a cross-sectional study using the eLIXIR Born in South London, UK maternity-child data linkage

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background In the last decade, rates of children with child protection agency involvement have increased in many high-income countries, including the UK.
Kaat De Backer, Paul Seed, Sam Burton, Elsa Montgomery, Jane Sandall, eLIXIR-Born in South London Partnership, Abigail Easter   +6 more
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Child advocacy centers: Perspectives from frontline child protection workers in Michigan, USA

Child Protection and Practice
Providing a coordinated response to child abuse among professionals from diverse fields has the potential to improve outcomes for children and advance justice in abuse cases. The multidisciplinary team model, implemented through child advocacy centers in
Nathyn A. Thompson, Kaylee R. Bares, Sarah R. Carlson   +2 more
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Humanity and Resilience: child-friendly spaces in Syria’s protracted conflict [PDF]

População e Sociedade
This paper seeks to analyse how education and child-friendly spaces impact the resilience of Syrian children affected by the protracted conflict, by ensuring humanity, dignity and protection.
Ariane Medeiros da Costa, Joana Macedo Rocha   +1 more
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Aplikasi Lembaga Perlindungan Anak Jatim Berbasis Website [PDF]

, 2017
At this time, certainly no stranger to hear their child abuse, whether it be physical, sexual or physikologi. All of it is a form of child abuse that is not supposed to happen. Things that interfere with the development of each child tiap-, both mentally
Kurniawan, H. K. (Hanny), Purba, K. R. (Kristo)   +1 more
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Child Protection and Social Inequality: Understanding Child Prostitution in Malawi

Social Sciences, 2018
This article draws on empirical research to develop understandings of child prostitution, previously theorised on the basis of children’s rights, feminist, and structure/agency debates, largely ignoring children’s own understandings of their ...
Pearson Nkhoma, Helen Charnley
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Child protection and the needs and rights of disabled children and young people: A scoping study [PDF]

, 2010
Child abuse, as defined by the NSPCC, refers to ''behaviour that causes significant harm to a child. It also includes when someone knowingly fails to prevent serious harm to a child' (see http://www.child-to-child.org/about/childprotection.htm). The four
Green Lister, Pam, Lerpiniere, Jennifer, McArthur, Katherine, Stalker, Kirsten   +3 more
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Shifting Power at the Front Door: State–Community Decision-Making Partnerships in Child Protection

Social Sciences
Inequities for Indigenous people in child protection systems are well established. One avenue for addressing these inequities is at the ‘front door’ of child protection, when reports are first made to statutory child protection services.
Emily Keddell, Andrew Rudolph, Shayne Walker, Karen Hale, Jude Hughes, Jonette Chapman, William Kaipo   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

An examination of collaborative working in child protection [PDF]

, 2010
Background Collaborative working between health and social care professionals in child protection work has been generally promoted in the western world as best practice (Laming 2009, HM Govt 2010).
Boodhoo, Amanda
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Reaching for Home: Global Learning on Family Reintegration in Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries [PDF]

, 2013
This inter-agency, desk-based research aims to arrive at a clearer understanding of reintegration practices for separated children in low and lower-middle income countries.
Joanna Wedge
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