SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unicef, Homicide, Kaslo
19 Jan 2016
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Semester 2, lecture 1, social work - jan 11, 2016. The true measure of a nation"s standing is how well it attends to its children - Child poverty: higher rates of poverty for children who are: recent immigrants - 33% Higher risk of: low success in education victimization. Family violence: in 2010, 18710 children/youth were victims of police-reported family violence. Girls are more likely than boys to be victims increase in 2004-2009 in the proportion of spousal violence victim reporting that children heard or saw assaults - from 43-52% Older children are more likely to experience violence, but toddlers are more likely to be victims of family homicide. Child maltreatment the number of children needing care/protection increased from 1998 to 2003. 85440 substantiated child maltreatment investigations in ontario in 2008. Most substantiated categories of maltreatment were intimate partner violence and neglect. 22% of substantiated cases (18510) involved children w/ indigenous heritage-
