Spending on child protection has almost doubled in a decade, so why isn’t it improving?

The central aim of any child protection system is in the name: protect children. But over the years, inquiries and media ...
American Enterprise Institute

How the District of Columbia, Like Many States, Blocks Access to Child Protection Information

On October 6, 2024, police found five-year-old DeAndre Pettus nude and unconscious in a squalid, trash-filled apartment in the Northwest section of the District of Columbia. Paramedics tried to revive ...
UNHCR

Child protection

Children constitute over 40 per cent of forcibly displaced and stateless persons. Situations of forced displacement and statelessness can have a lifelong, devastating impact on the lives and ...
Opinion

Building safer futures: Reimagining child protection with artificial intelligence

In January 2026, two young sisters went missing from Ranchi, Jharkhand, triggering an urgent search. With limited leads and vast geographies to cover, Ranchi Police sought support from Just Rights for ...
The Conversation

Our child protection system is clearly broken. Is it time to abolish it for a better model?

The tragic deaths of two small children in an overheated car in Queensland in 2019 highlight just how flawed our child protection system has become. Darcey and Chloe Conley were known to the child ...
Nature

Improved child protection training needed

A paper in this issue of the BDJ has found that few dental professionals with child protection training have experience of making referrals, and reports a wide gap in practice between recognising ...
Guyana Chronicle

Media sector engaged on responsible social media use, child protection

THE Department of Information and Public Affairs, on Saturday, hosted a stakeholder engagement with media practitioners at the Office of the Prime Minister, ...