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National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020    2
National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020    2
NATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR PROTECTING AUSTRALIA’S CHILDREN 2009-
2020
Table of Contents
Introduction    2
Types of Child Abuse in Australia    2
Learning Outcome 1    3
Learning Outcome 2    3
Importance to Social Justice, Ethics and Advocacy Learning and Development    4
Social Advocacy    4
Social Justice    5
Health Issues among Children    6
Learning Outcome 3    6
Learning Outcome 4    6
Learning Outcome 5    7
Conclusion    8
References    9
Introduction
    Child abuse is one of most common phenomena in Australia. About 1 out of 10 children are being physically, verbally or sexually abused by their parents and other members of their families. Abuse can be of different kind and there are many terms through which one can abuse another being. There are crimes against children that are gruesome and there is hardly any law against it. Child marriage and mutilation of children’s genitalia are few of such cases that can be mentioned in the research to understand the reality of the scenario. The aim of the report is to understand and analyse the depth of the child abuse in Australia and to understand the social, ethical and legal justices that are related to it.
Types of Child Abuse in Australia
    There are different types of social abuse and injustice against children in Australia and most of them have occurred within the safety of their home. The extent of them without violence are surrounded by negligence forced marriage physical and mental abuse and other different kinds of abusive activities that are affecting children. from different servers and research paper it has been understood that about 27% child abuse and neglect have increased in Australia between the year 2013 and 2017 (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2019). The survey has observed recent increase in the witness of violence against a mother before the age of 15 (Thomas et al., 2020). This indicates the increase in child marriage and forced marriage in many of the children between the age of 15 to 19. Child abuse does not necessarily mean sexual abuse but most of the time the sexually abuses are at the primary level of abusive activities that can be seen among children. Almost all families in aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders’ households can observe family and domestic violence against the women and children. In the year 2012, 69600 people reported of being sexually abused by a doctor or a teacher or a religious minister (Australian Government Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2020). Most of the criminal activities are committed by any of the members of the family and tragically every year a very small number of children die at the hands of their bully (Zeanah & Humphreys, 2018). Many of the children also are the victim of indirect violence where they have to witness acts of violence happening in the family. This kind of abuses are happening in schools, residences, immigration detention centres, recreational centres etc.
Learning Outcome 1
    A personal safety survey of 2016 has notified that about 13% Australians have an experienced any kind of physical and sexual abuse between the age of 13 to 19 and it includes 1.6 in the adults who have experienced this kind of traumatic situations in their childhood and adolescents (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2018). The reason this kind of situations need to be observed and acknowledge is because 94% of the report have pointed out that the child abuses are in form of physical abuse and mental abuse where most of the times parents or step parents have been involved (Swedo et al., 2020). Majority of the children who have experienced childhood abuse in their parents’ home have complaint that most of the times their step parents have physically and mentally abused them through various ways.
In some extreme cases children between the age of 10-14 have been hospitalized and the server has reported between the 2016 and 2017. Apart from the parents, there are times when other members of the family also abuse children and most of the times are these kinds of activities are noticed in aboriginal households (Communities & Justice, 2019, October 21). From a police report, it has been recorded that between the year 2000 to 2001 and 2011-12, at least a 238 incidence of filicides have happened and 284 victims have been killed among which majority were under the age of 18 (Strathearn et al., 2020).
Learning Outcome 2
Young people being killed by parents, siblings or other family members due to the case of honour and protection of their clan or any kind of internal rivalry, have been pointed out. There have been many surveys, where are the child abuse and negligence are reported to the child protection authorities. Violence from the family is a very common and they were in most of the Australian households. Although many of them are not reported to the authorities. That is the reason most of these activities are hidden and they are very hard to track down since a majority of the children were not reported to the authorities. With the help of the national Framework for protecting Australia children in the primary focus have been put on abuse and negligence she too was the children and the nation has planned a particular campaign against the protection of children and women against any kind of abusive activities of domestic violence....