Teachers, social workers and other front-line staff should be trained
how to spot faith-based child abuse, according to experts concerned at
the rising number of children being abused by parents with skewed
religious views.
Two leading female academics in the field have joined forces with the Victoria Climbié Foundation – named after the eight-year-old Ivorian girl tortured and murdered by her guardians in 2000 – in calling for a national framework to help reduce the incidence of such cases, which are on the rise and harder to detect than other forms of abuse.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/national-plan-launched-to-stop-faithbased-child-abuse-10141494.html
Two leading female academics in the field have joined forces with the Victoria Climbié Foundation – named after the eight-year-old Ivorian girl tortured and murdered by her guardians in 2000 – in calling for a national framework to help reduce the incidence of such cases, which are on the rise and harder to detect than other forms of abuse.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/national-plan-launched-to-stop-faithbased-child-abuse-10141494.html