More than half of abused children who remain at home continue to be abused, according to Canadian researchers, yet little is known about the effectiveness of preventative approaches. So new findings that home visits by nurses are no more effective than standard approaches in protecting children from further abuse (Children Now, 11-17 May) will be met with disappointment by professionals.
Researchers hoped a nurse-led approach would be successful, following home visiting programmes where nurses had reduced child maltreatment by disadvantaged first-time mothers.
Control families in the three-year study received routine follow-up by child protection services, which assessed the risk of further maltreatment and made referrals to community-based parent education programmes.
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