Sundell K
Bureau for Research and Development, Stockholm Social Welfare Administration, Sweden.
Child Abuse Negl. 1997 Jan;21(1):93-105. doi: 10.1016/s0145-2134(96)00133-0.
Professionals who are legally required to report suspicions of child abuse and neglect to child protective agencies have often been found not to do so. In this article, 341 child-care institutions in three suburbs of Stockholm were surveyed for suspected child abuse. Of the 3,737 children attending these child-care institutions, 3% (N = 112) were suspected of being maltreated. Of these suspected cases, only 37% were reported to the Child Protective Agencies (CPA). Furthermore, interviews with the directors of the nursery schools revealed that there was a considerable delay in reporting suspicions of child abuse to the CPA. A follow-up study conducted approximately 5 years after the suspicions were first identified showed that 43% of the suspected children were still unknown to the CPA. Data also indicates that one possible reason for the low degree of reporting is the way in which the reports have been processed by the CPA.
法律要求向儿童保护机构报告虐待和忽视儿童嫌疑情况的专业人员，常常被发现并未这样做。在本文中，对斯德哥尔摩三个郊区的341家儿童保育机构进行了关于虐待儿童嫌疑情况的调查。在这些儿童保育机构就读的3737名儿童中，3%（N = 112）被怀疑受到虐待。在这些疑似案例中，只有37%报告给了儿童保护机构（CPA）。此外，对幼儿园园长的访谈显示，向儿童保护机构报告虐待儿童嫌疑情况存在相当大的延迟。在首次发现嫌疑情况大约5年后进行的一项跟踪研究表明，43%的疑似儿童儿童保护机构仍然未知。数据还表明，报告率低的一个可能原因是儿童保护机构处理报告的方式。
