Toolkit on Mapping Legal, Health and Social Services Responses to Child Maltreatment

This toolkit outlines key methodological strategies and considerations necessary to conducting research on child maltreatment incidence and response using agency data.

Brief information

School:

Social Work

Status:

Completed

Period:

20.06.2013 - 31.08.2014

Overview

While there is a solid body of research on measuring child maltreatment prevalence through population surveys, far less attention has been paid to articulating methods for studying abuse incidence and response by surveying service agencies. This project seeks to identify emerging methodological approaches that could strengthen the quality and impact of this type of agency study. The results will be transferred into an international handbook on mapping legal, health and social service responses to study the incidence of child maltreatment. Supporting countries to gather agency data on the incidence of CM is a first step towards improved services. Identified regional disparities and underreporting problems can eventually lead to policies to enhance services for the well-being of children.

Facts

Type of project

Forschung

Internal organisations involved
  • Social Work
  • Institute for Social Work and Law
  • CC Kindes- und Erwachsenenschutz
External project partner
External project funder
Funding
  • Private / Stiftungen

Persons involved: internal

Project manager
  • Andreas Jud
Member of project team

Persons involved: external

External member of project team
  • Lisa M. Jones
  • Christopher Mikton

Documents

Publications