I started carrying out some research (before it got too depressing and I moved on to something else) into Child Protection guidelines in this country. Whilst my basic (very basic) comments are that I think they're very comprehensive and should, if followed, provide an excellent framework for safeguarding children, I have one major concern:
when asked, children are generally unable to define what they consider child abuse to be (not massively surprising, as it takes the govt. pages) and, more worryingly, are unable to say why it should be reported.
My research was carried out amongst secondary school children and was quite limited.
What are your thoughts? Should teachers actually be required to teach about this, and if so, how? Or should it just be left?
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in thinking that nobody has any idea how to deal with Child Protection?
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Tortu · 20/05/2011 20:31
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