TY - CHAP
T1 - WHAT HAS COVID-19 TAUGHT US ABOUT SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN FROM MALTREATMENT?
T2 - Lessons Learned from an International Study
AU - Katz, Carmit
AU - Katz, Ilan
AU - Attrash-Najjar, Afnan
AU - Jacobson, Maayan
AU - Chang, Olivia D.
AU - Collin-Vézina, Delphine
AU - Fouché, Ansie
AU - Kaawa-Mafigiri, David
AU - Korbin, Jill E.
AU - Levine, Diane Thembekile
AU - Maguire-Jack, Kathryn
AU - Massarweh, Nadia
AU - Munir, Akhtar
AU - Muñoz, Pablo
AU - Nieminen, Irja
AU - Paavilainen, Eija
AU - Priolo-Filho, Sidnei
AU - Ståhlberg, Miia
AU - Tiwari, Ashwini
AU - Truter, Elmien
AU - Varela, Natalia
AU - Walker-Williams, Hayley
AU - Wekerle, Christine
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 selection and editorial matter, Elizabeth Fernandez, Penelope Welbourne, Bethany Lee, and Joyce L. C. Ma; individual chapters, the contributors. All rights reserved.
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - Accumulating evidence around the globe has strengthened the notion that COVID-19 and the related policy responses increased the risk factors for child maltreatment while dramatically decreasing protective factors in children’s and families’ lives. This alarming reality resulted from various contexts, a key context being the impact the pandemic had on formal systems responsible for the protection of children and on child protection professionals. This chapter examines how formal systems in 13 countries responded to COVID-19 and draws key lessons that should be drawn from these responses. Evidence will be presented on the ways the COVID-19 pandemic increased risks to children, focusing on the cardinal role of disseminating child rights-based responses around the globe so that children will be protected from maltreatment and provided with the right to life without abuse during routine times and local and global crises. This chapter is based on the joint work of The International Group of Scholars Protecting Children from Maltreatment during COVID-19. This international consortium was initiated and directed by the chapter’s first author. The consortium was initiated in April 2020, immediately after COVID-19 was acknowledged as a pandemic. This group of leading international scholars dedicated their time and efforts to carry out pivotal and insightful research while developing frameworks to impact future research, policy and practice for child protection.
AB - Accumulating evidence around the globe has strengthened the notion that COVID-19 and the related policy responses increased the risk factors for child maltreatment while dramatically decreasing protective factors in children’s and families’ lives. This alarming reality resulted from various contexts, a key context being the impact the pandemic had on formal systems responsible for the protection of children and on child protection professionals. This chapter examines how formal systems in 13 countries responded to COVID-19 and draws key lessons that should be drawn from these responses. Evidence will be presented on the ways the COVID-19 pandemic increased risks to children, focusing on the cardinal role of disseminating child rights-based responses around the globe so that children will be protected from maltreatment and provided with the right to life without abuse during routine times and local and global crises. This chapter is based on the joint work of The International Group of Scholars Protecting Children from Maltreatment during COVID-19. This international consortium was initiated and directed by the chapter’s first author. The consortium was initiated in April 2020, immediately after COVID-19 was acknowledged as a pandemic. This group of leading international scholars dedicated their time and efforts to carry out pivotal and insightful research while developing frameworks to impact future research, policy and practice for child protection.
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U2 - 10.4324/9781003241492-25
DO - 10.4324/9781003241492-25
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AN - SCOPUS:85210888165
SN - 9781032148649
SP - 344
EP - 363
BT - The Routledge Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -