Are Child Protection Systems Around The World Getting It Wrong?

Are Child Protection Systems Around The World Getting It Wrong?
Christina EnglandNovember 14, 2010

It has been reported that 28.6% of Canada's children and youths are vulnerable to physical and/or emotional injury. These statistics were stated by the information website Child Abuse Effects.

The Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal reported that in 2007 an estimated 67,000 children were in out-of-home care across Canada.

The figures shown in a briefing document Child protection statistics: A UK comparison for children referred to child protection were unbelievable in the UK in the same year, with England being as high as 545,000, Wales 49,561 and Scotland 11,960.

In the USA the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Administration for Children and Families Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children´s Bureau wrote a report entitled Child Maltreatment 2006 which reported that:

"During Federal fiscal year 2006, an estimated 3.3 million referrals, involving the alleged maltreatment of approximately 6.0 million children, were made to CPS agencies."

Out of these an estimated 905,000 children were determined to be victims of abuse or neglect. Interestingly the report states that:

"Children in the age group of birth to 1 year had the highest rate of victimization at 24.4 per 1,000 children of the same age group in the national population"

These figures although slightly out of date are staggering but how many of the children in care today have actually been taken from loving caring families? One would hope none of them had but sadly this is not the case. Some children it appears are taken from families who are loving and caring because the child protection system has got it wrong.

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