Recognising and responding to child maltreatment

Gilbert, Ruth, Kemp, Alison Mary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1359-7948, Thoburn, June, Sidebotham, Peter, Radford, Lorraine, Glaser, Danya and MacMillan, Harriet L. 2009. Recognising and responding to child maltreatment. The Lancet 373 (9658) , pp. 167-180. 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61707-9

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Abstract

Professionals in child health, primary care, mental health, schools, social services, and law-enforcement services all contribute to the recognition of and response to child maltreatment. In all sectors, children suspected of being maltreated are under-reported to child-protection agencies. Lack of awareness of the signs of child maltreatment and processes for reporting to child-protection agencies, and a perception that reporting might do more harm than good, are among the reasons for not reporting. Strategies to improve recognition, mainly used in paediatric practice, include training, use of questionnaires for asking children and parents about maltreatment, and evidence-based guidelines for who should be assessed by child-protection specialists. Internationally, studies suggest that policies emphasising substantiation of maltreatment without concomitant attention to welfare needs lead to less service provision for maltreated children than do those in systems for which child maltreatment is part of a broad child and family welfare response.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0140-6736
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2022 10:51
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/25730

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