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Child Protection Research

Articles and papers

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Institutional Responses to Child Maltreatment: Final Report.

Full report about the Evidence and Gap Map (not the Guidebook: i.e., what evidence exists but not what it says).

52 pages, 2023.

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Institutional Responses to Child Maltreatment: Summary Report.

Summary report about the evidence on the Evidence and Gap Map, and what that evidence says.

10 pages (plus definitions), 2023.

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Guidebook: Summaries and Syntheses of the 'What Works studies' about Institutional Responses to Child Maltreatment.

184 pages, 2023

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Mapping the evidence to improve grantmaking.

Article in Alliance Magazine by the funder (Porticus), Giving Evidence and others describes the Evidence and Gap Map and the Guidebook, the rationale for creating them, how Porticus uses them, and Porticus’ learning from its own daily work.

3 pages, March 2021.

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Mapping the Volume of Child Protection Activity Against the EGM Frame.

Short report about how the evidence on the EGM aligns to activity within child protection. Giving Evidence explored finding data about activity in child protection (e.g., what schools are doing, governments, youth clubs etc.) and mapping it to the EGM frame – to identify where there is lots of activity but no evidence (=priority for new evidence) and areas of little activity but where the evidence is clear that something works (=areas to encourage more activity). Basically, that didn’t work because evidence about child protection activity is so scant (!)

16 pages (+ appendices), August 2020.

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Interventions that address institutional child maltreatment: An evidence and gap map.

Academic paper about the first iteration of this Evidence and Gap Map, published by Campbell on Wiley.

38 pages (+ references), March 2021.

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Measuring children’s safety in organisations: Evaluating the strengths and limitations of currently-used measures.

Blog post announcing a project to evaluate the strengths and limitations of the outcome measures (of children’s safety in organisations) used in studies on the EGM.

1 page, November 2023.

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The evidence on institutional responses to child abuse: Creating and using an evidence and gap map.

Webinar: by Giving Evidence and Porticus, hosted by the Campbell Collaboration in which we talked through: why the funder started this, how we made the EGM, what it found, how we made the Guidebook, what that found, the interactive version of both, and what we are doing next. Plus questions from audience members.

90 minutes, 2021.

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Effectiveness of child sexual abuse prevention programs on knowledge acquisition: A meta-analytical study.

Meta-analysis of studies about the effectiveness of child sexual abuse prevention programmes on knowledge acquisition (academic paper)

(These studies are the most common ones on the map: they are in the populous cell. We found that all those studies show positive effects. Hence this meta-analysis finds “”The results reported a combined effect size considered large…”)

December 2023.

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This site holds an Evidence and Gap Map about institutional responses to child abuse, and Guidebook which explains that evidence.
The EGM and Guidebook were produced by Giving Evidence and partners, with funding from Porticus.

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