Hundreds of Child Protection Calls Going Unassessed
On August - 2 - 2011
HUNDREDS OF REPORTS concerning the welfare of children across the country are not being properly assessed due to the increasingly heavy workloads of social workers, leaving many vulnerable young people at risk of serious abuse. Social workers speaking to the Irish Times said they are fearful that children may even die as a result of the failure of staff to properly assess and intervene in urgent cases.
READ MORE HERE:
http://www.thejournal.ie/hundreds-of-urgent-child-protection-calls-going-unassessed-191071-Aug2011/
---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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