Information, Intervention, and Assessment – Frameworks of child physical abuse and neglect interventions in four countries
Abstract
The well-being of children is not only the concern of parents and families. The UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is clear about the multiple responsibilities of the state. In case of child abuse and neglect the state has a duty to enter the private sphere of family life, if necessary unconsented (article 19 CRC). The international standards are reflected in the legal and institutional frameworks of national child protection systems. At the same time systems are shaped by socio-cultural norms as well as legal-organisational traditions.1 The four countries in the study, England and Wales, Germany, Portugal, and Slovenia, come from different, if not contrasting, historical provenances of child protection policy. Comparing the systems we presumed to fnd expected divergences as well as unexpected similarities. …. To further characterise the four child protection systems of England and Wales, Germany, Portugal, and Slovenia (see 5 below) the multi-national comparison in the following chapter – only – looks through the lens of legal-organisational structures of three procedural aspects of intervention: information, intervention, and assessment (2 to 4 below). The spotlights concentrate on child physical abuse and neglect. Child sexual abuse was left out in the CEINAV study since often differing legal provisions and organisational procedures apply that lead to additional questions. Emotional/psychological abuse was not included on the assumption that dissimilarities in its acknowledgment might divert attention from the ethical and cultural focus in the study. (from Author Introduction)
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Keywords
child abuse, physical abuse, International resources, Prevention, Policy, law
Citation
Meysen, Thomas. (2019). Information, Intervention, and Assessment – Frameworks of child
physical abuse and neglect interventions in four countries. In: Carol Hagemann-White ; Liz Kelly ; Thomas Meysen (eds.). (2019). Interventions Against Child Abuse and Violence Against Women: Ethics and culture in practice and policy. Verlag Barbara Budrich. Pages 77-86.