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Child maltreatment reports and Child Protection Service responses during COVID-19: Knowledge exchange among Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Israel, and South Africa
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 has become a worldwide pandemic impacting child protection services (CPSs) in many countries. With quarantine and social distancing restrictions, school closures, and recreational venues suspended or providing reduced access, the social safety net for violence prevention has bee...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8446926/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33931238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105078 |
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author | Katz, Ilan Katz, Carmit Andresen, Sabine Bérubé, Annie Collin-Vezina, Delphine Fallon, Barbara Fouché, Ansie Haffejee, Sadiyya Masrawa, Nadia Muñoz, Pablo Priolo Filho, Sidnei R. Tarabulsy, George Truter, Elmien Varela, Natalia Wekerle, Christine |
author_facet | Katz, Ilan Katz, Carmit Andresen, Sabine Bérubé, Annie Collin-Vezina, Delphine Fallon, Barbara Fouché, Ansie Haffejee, Sadiyya Masrawa, Nadia Muñoz, Pablo Priolo Filho, Sidnei R. Tarabulsy, George Truter, Elmien Varela, Natalia Wekerle, Christine |
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description | BACKGROUND: COVID-19 has become a worldwide pandemic impacting child protection services (CPSs) in many countries. With quarantine and social distancing restrictions, school closures, and recreational venues suspended or providing reduced access, the social safety net for violence prevention has been disrupted significantly. Impacts include the concerns of underreporting and increased risk of child abuse and neglect, as well as challenges in operating CPSs and keeping their workforce safe. OBJECTIVE: The current discussion paper explored the impact of COVID-19 on child maltreatment reports and CPS responses by comparing countries using available population data. METHOD: Information was gathered from researchers in eight countries, including contextual information about the country’s demographics and economic situation, key elements of the CPS, and the CPS response to COVID-19. Where available, information about other factors affecting children was also collected. These data informed a discussion about between-country similarities and differences. RESULTS: COVID-19 had significant impact on the operation of every CPS, whether in high- income or low-income countries. Most systems encountered some degree of service disruption or change. Risk factors for children appeared to increase while there were often substantial deficits in CPS responses, and in most countries there was at a temporary decrease in CM reports despite the increased risks to children. CONCLUSIONS: The initial data presented and discussed among the international teams pointed to the way COVID-19 has hampered CPS responses and the protection of children more generally in most jurisdictions, highlighting that children appear to have been at greater risk for maltreatment during COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-84469262021-09-17 Child maltreatment reports and Child Protection Service responses during COVID-19: Knowledge exchange among Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Israel, and South Africa Katz, Ilan Katz, Carmit Andresen, Sabine Bérubé, Annie Collin-Vezina, Delphine Fallon, Barbara Fouché, Ansie Haffejee, Sadiyya Masrawa, Nadia Muñoz, Pablo Priolo Filho, Sidnei R. Tarabulsy, George Truter, Elmien Varela, Natalia Wekerle, Christine Child Abuse Negl Article BACKGROUND: COVID-19 has become a worldwide pandemic impacting child protection services (CPSs) in many countries. With quarantine and social distancing restrictions, school closures, and recreational venues suspended or providing reduced access, the social safety net for violence prevention has been disrupted significantly. Impacts include the concerns of underreporting and increased risk of child abuse and neglect, as well as challenges in operating CPSs and keeping their workforce safe. OBJECTIVE: The current discussion paper explored the impact of COVID-19 on child maltreatment reports and CPS responses by comparing countries using available population data. METHOD: Information was gathered from researchers in eight countries, including contextual information about the country’s demographics and economic situation, key elements of the CPS, and the CPS response to COVID-19. Where available, information about other factors affecting children was also collected. These data informed a discussion about between-country similarities and differences. RESULTS: COVID-19 had significant impact on the operation of every CPS, whether in high- income or low-income countries. Most systems encountered some degree of service disruption or change. Risk factors for children appeared to increase while there were often substantial deficits in CPS responses, and in most countries there was at a temporary decrease in CM reports despite the increased risks to children. CONCLUSIONS: The initial data presented and discussed among the international teams pointed to the way COVID-19 has hampered CPS responses and the protection of children more generally in most jurisdictions, highlighting that children appear to have been at greater risk for maltreatment during COVID-19. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-06 2021-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8446926/ /pubmed/33931238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105078 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Katz, Ilan Katz, Carmit Andresen, Sabine Bérubé, Annie Collin-Vezina, Delphine Fallon, Barbara Fouché, Ansie Haffejee, Sadiyya Masrawa, Nadia Muñoz, Pablo Priolo Filho, Sidnei R. Tarabulsy, George Truter, Elmien Varela, Natalia Wekerle, Christine Child maltreatment reports and Child Protection Service responses during COVID-19: Knowledge exchange among Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Israel, and South Africa |
title | Child maltreatment reports and Child Protection Service responses during COVID-19: Knowledge exchange among Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Israel, and South Africa |
title_full | Child maltreatment reports and Child Protection Service responses during COVID-19: Knowledge exchange among Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Israel, and South Africa |
title_fullStr | Child maltreatment reports and Child Protection Service responses during COVID-19: Knowledge exchange among Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Israel, and South Africa |
title_full_unstemmed | Child maltreatment reports and Child Protection Service responses during COVID-19: Knowledge exchange among Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Israel, and South Africa |
title_short | Child maltreatment reports and Child Protection Service responses during COVID-19: Knowledge exchange among Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Israel, and South Africa |
title_sort | child maltreatment reports and child protection service responses during covid-19: knowledge exchange among australia, brazil, canada, colombia, germany, israel, and south africa |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8446926/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33931238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105078 |
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