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Françoise MULKAY Childhood, Youth and Youth Protection Observatory French Speaking Community of Belgium. How to build a system of collecting data : criteria and processes. Some questions. Why do we want any data about maltreatment ? How to define maltreatment ? Which source(s) of data ?
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Françoise MULKAY Childhood, Youth and Youth Protection Observatory French Speaking Community of Belgium How to build a system of collecting data : criteria and processes
Some questions • Why do we want any data about maltreatment ? • How to define maltreatment ? • Which source(s) of data ? • How to collect data ?
Why do we want any data about maltreatment ? • To know • how many children are maltreated now Incidence of phenomenon; • how many persons have been maltreated during their childhood Prevalence of phenomenon.
Why do we want any data about maltreatment ? • To know • To act • to improve the help for the children • to help parents • to prevent maltreatment • to improve the laws
Why do we want any data about maltreatment ? • To know • To act • To compare • in time; • between countries.
How to define maltreatment ? • What is maltreatment ? • Problem of definitions. • How to find some concrete behaviors to explain the definitions but also how to translate them ? • Which maltreatment ? • Substantiated maltreatment or also suspected maltreatment and situations at risk.
How to define maltreatment ? • What is maltreatment ? • Which maltreatement ? • When do we count ? • when the situation is reported; • when the situation was analyzed and so when the situation is substantiated.
How to define maltreatment ? • What is maltreatment ? • Which maltreatement ? • When do we count ? • Intra-family, extra-family, institutional maltreatment
Which source(s) of data ? • Survey or analysis of administrative data ?
Which source(s) of data ? • Survey or analysis of administrative data ? • If we choose administrative data • Judicial sources, health sector sources, social sector sources ? • If social sources are the best choice, • how are they collected in each country. • Problems when reporting is not an obligation.
Which source(s) of data ? • If we choose administrative data • Judicial sources, health sector sources, social sector sources ? • If social sources are the best choice, • how are they collected in each country ? • Problems when reporting is not an obligation. • Statistics about the situations of reported maltreatment are different from statistics about maltreatement
How to collect data ? • Survey or analysis of administrative data ? • If analysis with administrative data • which service or services are collecting data ? • Centralized or decentralized ? • How to choose the best service ? • Do we collect specific data for ChildONEurope ? • Aggregated or disaggregated ? • What about the protection of private life and the professional secret ?
To conclude • 1st choice : survey or analysis of administrative data ? • If analysis of administrative data, before creating a new system, what is there in every country (or region) ?
To conclude • A tremendous job why do we want data ? • to improve the well being of children. • So, maltreatment as a variable among other variables.