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{"title":"Strengthening parental safeguarding against intrafamilial child sexual abuse: Sexual assault counselors’ window into salient family dynamics and prevention","authors":"Shona L. Innes ,&nbsp;Susan Rayment-McHugh ,&nbsp;Harriot Beazley","doi":"10.1016/j.chipro.2026.100281","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chipro.2026.100281","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>A substantial proportion of childhood sexual abuse occurs in family settings. Intrafamilial child sexual abuse can commence at a very early age, be long lasting and can impact a child's entire early social system. Criminological guardianship highlights the role that individuals (capable guardians) can play in safeguarding children (deterring crime). Whilst parents are well placed to safeguard against intrafamilial child sexual abuse, the complexity of family dynamics and the privacy of domestic settings can complicate prevention efforts. Counselors working with families after intrafamilial child sexual abuse gain real-time, first-hand insights into what strengthens or hinders parental safeguarding – a viewpoint not captured by existing safeguarding research.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study sought to explore factors that Australian child sexual abuse counseling professionals believed were important to understand when strengthening parental guardianship against intrafamilial child sexual abuse.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>Participants were 11 social workers and psychologists employed in public, private and community-based agencies in Australia to counsel children and family members following intrafamilial child sexual abuse.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Child sexual abuse counseling professionals were interviewed using a semi-structured interview format. An inductive, exploratory approach was taken with resultant interview transcripts analyzed using Reflexive Thematic Analysis.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Five key themes were developed: Parents bring their own histories to their families; parent-child attunement matters; a family is a system within systems; children are active participants in family life; and everyday family interactions provide powerful prevention opportunities. Together, the themes shape how care, risk and communication in families can improve safeguarding.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The resultant themes have implications for supporting parents to safeguard against intrafamilial child sexual abuse in day-to-day ways. Practice and policy should broaden guardianship frameworks to include parental self-awareness, parent-child attunement and systemic factors to strengthen prevention and response to intrafamilial child sexual abuse.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100237,"journal":{"name":"Child Protection and Practice","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145976765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Framing child protection systems: Toward a normative framework and operational definition for policy and practice","authors":"Bruce Grant","doi":"10.1016/j.chipro.2026.100277","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chipro.2026.100277","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper proposes an expanded conceptual and normative framing of child protection systems to support more coherent, inclusive, and accountable approaches in both development and humanitarian contexts. The term normative framework refers to the shared rules, standards, and social values that guide how institutions should function and what they aim to achieve. The paper responds to persistent gaps in how child protection systems are defined. The analysis is situated within a wider global context in which child protection systems are under strain due to multiple global pressures.</div><div>Building on foundational work from 2010 and drawing on recent momentum from the 2024 Bogotá Call to Action and the Framework for Action, the paper describes what a child protection system is. It introduces a dual-axis normative framework that distinguishes between norms of operation and norms of intent.</div><div>The paper examines evolving expectations of system components, draws on benchmarking data from over 150 countries, and addresses persistent challenges. The last section proposes a working, field-tested definition of a child protection system to guide national planning, partner alignment, and systems-focused reform.</div><div>Clear definitions play a policy-like role in shaping implementation and resource flows, and inclusive and accountable systems are essential to upholding every child's right to protection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100237,"journal":{"name":"Child Protection and Practice","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145924895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When practitioners become research partners: Lessons from two cross-national child protection studies","authors":"Paula S. Oliveira","doi":"10.1016/j.chipro.2026.100278","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chipro.2026.100278","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100237,"journal":{"name":"Child Protection and Practice","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145924897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“It's a slippery slope:” How foster parents and agency staff navigate their relationship","authors":"Judy Havlicek ,&nbsp;Stacey Shipe","doi":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100276","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100237,"journal":{"name":"Child Protection and Practice","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145924896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cumulative and item-level adverse childhood experiences in relation to suicidal ideation and attempts among incarcerated Japanese youth","authors":"Masaru Takahashi ,&nbsp;Kasumi Imahara ,&nbsp;Kayoko Myojo ,&nbsp;Michiko Yasuda ,&nbsp;Yukiko Miyamoto","doi":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100275","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100275","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Research reports higher suicidal ideation (SI) and suicide attempts (SAs) among offender populations than the general population.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study investigated the association of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on SI and SAs among Japanese incarcerated youth.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>The study included 436 participants (351 boys, 85 girls) placed in four juvenile correctional institutions in Japan. Mean age was 17.09 years (<em>SD</em> = 1.59) for boys and 16.76 years (<em>SD</em> = 1.65) for girls, age range 12–19 years.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>A self-report questionnaire was administered to detained youth between September 2021 and March 2023, including only those who consented to participate.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Lifetime prevalence of SI was 44.7 % for girls and 19.3 % for boys, while SAs were 29.4 % for girls and 8.0 % for boys, showing girls were significantly more likely to report both behaviors. Logistic regression analyses showed that while cumulative ACE scores were associated with both SI and SAs (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.40, 95 %CI = [1.21–1.62] for SA; AOR = 1.32, 95 %CI = [1.17–1.49] for SI), most individual ACEs were not. Only family SAs significantly increased risk of both behaviors, while having an incarcerated family member decreased SI risk.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Our findings highlight the need for trauma-informed approaches within forensic and correctional environments to enhance mental health support for affected youth offenders. The results indicate that childhood adversity is not uniformly associated with mental health issues, underscoring the importance of examining how individual ACEs relate to youth suicide prevention efforts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100237,"journal":{"name":"Child Protection and Practice","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145839977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Surveying children and young people on sensitive topics: Creating engaging, accessible, trauma-informed digital questionnaires","authors":"Anna McCarthy ,&nbsp;Julia I. Rudolph ,&nbsp;Deborah Fry ,&nbsp;Claire P. Monks ,&nbsp;Rosana Pacella ,&nbsp;Franziska Meinck","doi":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100274","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100274","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Research with children and young people requires bespoke measurement tools and methodologies, designed with the end-user in mind.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This paper describes the design of digital questionnaires for children and young people which are engaging, accessible, and trauma-informed. It is presented in the context of a larger study, which designed violence prevalence survey questionnaires for participants aged 11–25 years in the United Kingdom.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>Data collection was conducted with child abuse and violence research professionals, adults and children with lived experience of violence in the UK, and children and young people in the target age group in the UK.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Feedback on the design of the questionnaires was gathered via online Delphi surveys, focus groups, participatory research sessions, qualitative interviews, and individual consultations. Thematic analysis was conducted to review feedback on digital format features, trauma-informed design, and accessibility. The project followed an iterative and multi-stage process.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Digital formatting (including matrix questions, survey branching, and navigation buttons), trauma-informed design (including question introductions and opt-out response phrasing), and accessibility features (including audio recordings and readability) can be utilised to generate an engaging, accessible, and trauma-informed measurement tool appropriate for children and young people.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Using an inclusive and child-focused approach to design has the potential to positively impact children's ability and willingness to engage with surveys, ultimately improving the resulting data and our understanding of children's experiences of violence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100237,"journal":{"name":"Child Protection and Practice","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145976821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Accounts about siblings’ experience of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse: Prevalence and agreement in a retrospective study of adult sibling pairs","authors":"Susanne Witte ,&nbsp;Jörg M. Fegert ,&nbsp;Sabine Walper","doi":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100273","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100273","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>The validity of child abuse reports has been investigated, focusing on the agreement between prospective and retrospective reports of child abuse. The agreement of siblings' accounts about each other's experiences of abuse has been overlooked, although it might provide valuable insights.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>We examined the prevalence of accounts about siblings' experience of abuse in a retrospective survey and analyzed predictors of accounts about different types of abuse. Moreover, agreement between accounts about siblings’ experiences of abuse and predictors of agreement were investigated.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Retrospective reports of 4568 adults participating in an online survey were analyzed in terms of predictors of accounts about siblings' experience of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse (71.31 % female). In a subsample of 870 participants, another sibling from the same family also participated in the survey, enabling the assessment of agreement in accounts. Predictors of accounts about siblings' experience of abuse and agreement between accounts were assessed using multivariate logistic regression. Agreement was assessed using Cohen's Kappa as well as agreement in percent.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Siblings' experience of emotional abuse was reported by 6.33 % of the participants, siblings' experience of physical abuse by 5.76 %, and siblings' experience of sexual abuse by 2.74 %. The agreement was highest for accounts about physical abuse, followed by sexual abuse. The agreement was higher for accounts about older siblings' experience than for younger siblings' experience of all abuse types. Significant predictors of accounts about siblings’ experiences of abuse and agreement between accounts relate to informant characteristics, sibling constellation, sibling relationship quality, and self-reported experience of abuse and neglect.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Findings highlight the possibility of investigating the prevalence rates of child abuse with reports of siblings, but also show possible factors contributing to bias in reporting and thus estimates. In practice, testimony from other family members is an essential aspect of restorative justice proceedings, and these findings might help understand conflicting testimonies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100237,"journal":{"name":"Child Protection and Practice","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145790462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disrupting the path from placement in out-of-home care to adult crime: Mediation and interaction by educational attainment","authors":"Glena Hossein","doi":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100272","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100272","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Prior research has established a strong association between childhood experiences of out-of-home care (OHC) and adult criminal offending. Disruptions of this pathway, however, remain insufficiently explored. From a life-course perspective, educational attainment may function as a key turning point, fostering resilience and reducing the risk of offending in individuals with OHC experiences.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study investigates the extent to which educational attainment, here operationalized as completion of upper secondary school, mediates and/or modifies the relationship between childhood OHC placement and adult criminal behavior. The analysis examines three dimensions of offending – conviction, incarceration, and violent crime – stratified by sex.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and Setting</h3><div>Data from the Stockholm Birth Cohort Multigen cohort (n ≈ 14,000) was utilized, comprising individuals born in 1953 in Sweden.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Four-way decomposition analyses were conducted to distinguish the mediating and interactive effects of educational attainment.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>OHC placement was associated with higher odds of adult conviction, incarceration and violent crime. Educational attainment explained 70-95 percent of this association through mediation and/or interaction, with interaction being substantially more influential than mediation. The protective effect of education was more pronounced for severe offending among men.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Educational attainment substantially disrupts the pathway from OHC to criminal offending, primarily through interactive mechanisms. Policy efforts promoting educational attainment among OHC-experienced youth may significantly reduce offending risks. However, achieving such outcomes requires broader support to facilitate educational success and long-term resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100237,"journal":{"name":"Child Protection and Practice","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145790463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adapting and validating the client engagement scale for the Danish child and family welfare context: A Rasch-based construct validity study","authors":"Signe Boe Rayce ,&nbsp;Anne Marie Villumsen ,&nbsp;Maiken Pontoppidan ,&nbsp;Tine Nielsen","doi":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100267","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100267","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Client engagement encompasses family involvement in child protection casework and the collaborative relationship between case workers and families. The Client Engagement Scale was developed to assess client engagement within child protective systems.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Building on Yatchmenoff's conceptual framework, this study aimed to translate and conduct an initial psychometric validation of a client engagement measure specifically within Denmark's child and family welfare system.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>Parents with active cases in the Danish Child and Family Welfare system completed 210 online survey questionnaires.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The original pool of 37 items was translated and adapted to the Danish context. Construct validity for five subscales of client engagement was examined using Rasch models (RM) and graphical loglinear Rasch models (GLLRM) with a focus on differential item functioning and local dependency of items.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>After item elimination, a 5-item expectancy subscale fitted the pure RM. A 6-item receptivity, 4-item mistrust, and a 3-item working relationship subscale presented some differential functioning and/or local dependency, but to a degree which could be accounted for using GLLRM. The investment subscale did not fit the RM nor a GLLRM. The resulting scales demonstrated high to excellent reliability, but poor targeting to the study population.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Essentially valid subscales resulted for four out of five aspects of client engagement within Denmark's Child and Family Welfare system. While these subscales show promise for statistical use, future research should examine their psychometric properties in larger and more diverse samples before attempting to use them at an individual level in an everyday child and family welfare practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100237,"journal":{"name":"Child Protection and Practice","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145738038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the impacts on child welfare practice of important articles of the UN convention on the rights of the child: A comparison of Australia, Canada and the USA","authors":"Bob Lonne ,&nbsp;Ashley Stewart-Tufescu ,&nbsp;Shawna Lee ,&nbsp;Christine Morley","doi":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100270","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100270","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) emphasizes the centrality of the family, culture and community in the nurturing and socialization of all children, and the responsibility of governments to develop laws, policies and programs that support families and children to achieve their human potentials, and to be protected from discrimination, violence, exploitation and other harms. Children requiring protective interventions should be placed in homes within their cultural or community milieu. However, in many countries protective interventions are not required by policy to enact a child rights approach, nor to ensure that children's best interests of are required in case decision-making, and corporal punishment is not outlawed.</div><div>In this article we pose the question: How impactful has the CRC been upon the policy and practice in child protection/welfare systems in Australia, Canada and the USA? We apply a critical comparative lens to examine how the CRC has been implemented and operationalized in these nations, focusing upon two important Articles: the best interests principle and corporal punishment. We assess the current state of CYP's rights and describe and analyze the extent to which these countries have formally or informally embedded and operationalized the CRC into their child protection legislations, policies and practices. We compare and contrast these nation's protective system achievements using publicly available sources of analysis and commentary. We examine the ways in which the CRC plays a transformative role in child welfare systems and its potential to be a greater force for much needed system change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100237,"journal":{"name":"Child Protection and Practice","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145738037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}