A better way to prevent child abuse

"By targeting first-time, young vulnerable mothers with low socio-economic status—the current criteria for the FNP—the programme is only reaching around one-quarter of families likely to benefit and the study estimates that it is missing 90% of child abuse and neglect cases.

"The authors claim that using specific known risk factors, such as a history of domestic violence or where parents had themselves been abused as a child, would be far more effective in identifying vulnerable children than targeting just first-time mums from poorer backgrounds...."

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