The Right to a Fair Trial from a Child’s Perspective – Reflections from a Comparative Analysis of Two Child-protection Systems

2010 ◽  
pp. 271-288
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
The Right

Longitudinal trends in child protection statistics in South Australia: A study of unit record data

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Delfabbro ◽  
Craig Hirte ◽  
Ros Wilson ◽  
Nancy Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Incidence Rates ◽  
Mandatory Reporting ◽  
Annual Incidence ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
Record Data ◽  
Over Time

In Australia, it is commonly reported that rates of child protection notifications have increased over time. More and more children in any given year are subject to a child protection notification. On the whole, these conclusions have been based on cross-sectional notification counts or rates recorded in a given year (e.g. AIHW 2009). Although useful, such analyses are limited in that they do not account for the fact that child protection incidents are unevenly distributed across individual cases. Crosssectional analyses also do not indicate the incidence of notifications within a given cohort of children.In this paper, we summarise the longitudinal and comparative analysis of data relating to children born in 1991, 1998 and 2002. The results highlight the increasingly early involvement of child protection systems in children's lives, higher annual incidence rates, as well as increasingly steep cumulative involvement curves for cohorts tracked from their year of birth. The implications of these findings for mandatory reporting policies are discussed.

scholarly journals Developing services for a public health approach to child maltreatment

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Gilbert ◽  
Jenny Woodman ◽  
Stuart Logan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
Reduce Risk ◽  
The Right

Calls for a public health approach to child maltreatment – a strategy that aims primarily to reduce risk factors for maltreatment - have been based on four main arguments. (O’Donnellet al. 2008; Reading et al. 2009; Barlow and Calam, 2011) The right of children to be protected from harm in the first place. The frequency of child maltreatment, which, if all occurrences were notified, would overwhelm child protection systems. The inaccuracy of identification systems, which miss the large majority of maltreated children. And fourth, the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of intervening to prevent child maltreatment comparing with intervention once child maltreatment has occurred. We review the evidence to support these arguments and trace the development of UK policy and health services towards a public health approach.

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