Child Protection and Social Inequality: Editorial

Bywaters, Paul; Featherstone, Brid; Morris, Kate

doi:10.3390/socsci8020042

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“…Except for sexual abuse, younger children (aged one year and under) are the most vulnerable of all children to be abused and neglected (US DHHS 2021 Although there is some variance across cultures in perceptions of what may and may not constitute child abuse and neglect (Finkelhor 1988;Korbin 1979), in recent decades there is an emerging consensus about its parameters, especially for child sexual abuse (Mathews 2019), physical abuse (WHO 2006), emotional abuse (Glaser 2011), and neglect (Dubowitz 2007). This is reflected in criminal prohibitions on this conduct across low-, middle-, and high-income countries, and scholarly research addressing the contribution of structural inequalities in societies to child maltreatment (Bywaters 2019;Finkelhor 1988). Global legal and policy norms recognise the main domains of child abuse and neglect and require substantial e orts to identify and respond to them.…”

Section: Child Abuse and Neglectmentioning

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Child protection training for professionals to improve reporting of child abuse and neglect

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Eggins

Hine

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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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Section: Child Abuse and Neglectmentioning

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Child protection training for professionals to improve reporting of child abuse and neglect

Walsh

Eggins

Hine

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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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“…There are, however, several examples of trends in PHA research that "[view] child maltreatment as a reflection of power relations across society that occurs at all levels, not just among the poor" (Gray & Schubert, 2019, p. 224). Prominent in this context is the child welfare inequality perspective, which is rooted in PHAs and considers how children's and families' chances of contact with the child protection system, their experiences of that contact, and its outcomes are all influenced by social inequalities related to demographic factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, location, and disability (Bywaters et al, 2019). Scholars from the UK (Hood et al, 2020), New Zealand (Keddell et al, 2019), and Norway (Kojan & Skarstad, 2021) have shown that patterns of system contact can be influenced by the quantity of a service offered, its entry and exit criteria, its goodness of fit, its cultural acceptability, and its conceptual or discursive basis.…”

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Fusing the Poverty-Aware Paradigm with Public Health Approaches to Protect Children: a Case Study of an Israeli Social Services Department

Saar-Heiman

2022

Int. Journal on Child Malt.

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This article aims to explore the potential contribution of incorporating the Poverty-Aware Paradigm for Child Protection—a critical framework for child protection policy and practice—with public health approaches to protecting children. It focuses on one Israeli social services department that embraced the Poverty-Aware Paradigm as an overarching framework for all levels of practice and specifically in the context of child protection. Based on an in-depth case study of the department’s child protection practice, the findings outline and describe the primary, secondary, and tertiary services and interventions through which the department addresses child maltreatment. These services and interventions are explored in light of Higgins and colleagues’ conceptualization of the six core components of public health approaches to preventing child maltreatment. This exploration points to the compatibly of the two frameworks and suggests three potential contributions of the Poverty-Aware Paradigm to the development of a public health approach. First, it offers a holistic and critical framework that focuses on a multidimensional analysis of child maltreatment and makes it possible to link tertiary responses to primary-level interventions. Second, it provides a firm ethical foundation rooted in a commitment to resisting social oppression and standing by parents, children, and their relationships. Third, it infuses relational concepts and practices into the policy and practice of public health approaches.

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“…For children in homes affected by alcohol use, deprivation and domestic abuse, the impacts on mental and physical health and social well-being could be lifelong (Bywaters 2019). Consequently, the UK's Domestic Abuse Act 2021 classifies children in a household where abuse and violence are perpetrated as victims themselves, regardless of whether the abuse was directed at them or not.…”

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Domestic abuse and mental health: the amplified risks created during the pandemic

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SUMMARY No recent pandemic has had such a severe socioeconomic impact as COVID-19. Significant economic uncertainty and social restrictions have led to increased levels of stress for many. There has been increased social isolation, financial stress and alcohol intake, all of which can increase domestic abuse and other forms of household abuse. Increases in abuse in the home found in other public health emergencies and economic recessions can be seen now – reported UK domestic abuse rates have increased since the start of COVID-19. This article focuses on how COVID-19 and its anticipated aftermath exacerbate the risk factors for domestic abuse in the general population and discusses clinical implications for mental health practitioners in the UK. It aims to provide a point of learning based on previous disease outbreaks and recessions, with a focus on specific factors, such as unemployment and alcohol misuse, and how these contribute to increasing incidence and severity of abuse – and more importantly, how mental health professionals can mitigate these for patients, 1 in 3 of whom are estimated to have already experienced abuse before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Child Protection and Social Inequality: Editorial

Abstract: In the UK and internationally, reducing inequalities in health and education has become accepted across the political spectrum as an essential component of government policy [...]

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

Child protection training for professionals to improve reporting of child abuse and neglect

Child protection training for professionals to improve reporting of child abuse and neglect

Fusing the Poverty-Aware Paradigm with Public Health Approaches to Protect Children: a Case Study of an Israeli Social Services Department

Domestic abuse and mental health: the amplified risks created during the pandemic

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