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Description: "The fact that this is the seventh year running that every national indicator of child abuse and neglect has worsened shows tha
Article originally prepared on : 26 January 2007
January 25, 2007 11:18am
REPORTS of child abuse have almost doubled in the past four years,according to new figures.
But child welfare advocates believe the figure is the tip of the iceberg andthat upwards of 550,000 children were being abused or neglected every year.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare figures showed there were266,745 reports of child abuse in 2005-06, up 93 per cent on the 2001-02figures.
Some 55,921 of those reports were substantiated - up 84 per cent on the2001-02 figures.
The National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN)said the figures did not even come close to the true extent of child abuse andneglect.
NAPCAN executive officer Adam Blakester said a radical new approach wasneeded to combat the horrifying statistics.
"We need to establish community action networks in every town, city andsuburb to build the capacity of communities to support families, and thecapacity of families to raise children," Mr Blakester said.
"The fact that this is the seventh year running that every national indicatorof child abuse and neglect has worsened shows that what we are doing is not goodenough."
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