Safeguarding Children

Children, Sexual Abuse and the Child Protection System Summary From this paper we can see a variety of issues in the form of how child abuse accusations are handled within the child protection system. The paper looked at three European countries and the victims that were interviewed all shared the same opinions. Although most of the children involved in these two research projects were teenagers, many of them spoke about the abuse occurring pre-adolescent and …

…in leaving the child feel intimated. The legal system is adult-centred which meant not only that children had to accede to it’s pace, but that they were often placed in situations they did not understand and found intimidatory being obliged to think in adults concept and language. A weakness of the paper could be that the study was only researched in three countries, which didn’t really give an international view of child abuse.