Cape Town – South Africa’s first nationally representative study on child maltreatment has put the spotlight on the current system aimed at protecting children.
After surveying workers in both state and non-state organisations, it was found that most child protection agencies worked in silos.
“It is a fractured system which delays justice and it is often too hard [for victims] to get the help that they really need,” Professor Catherine Ward, one of the authors of the Optimus study, shared in a briefing on Thursday.
