"At a time when governments are increasingly driven by fiscal restraint, it is important that public spending decisions around complex issues such as child protection consider not just the short-term effects but also the longer-term costs and benefits - in the case of child abuse, for both the victims and society as a whole.
"Our research calls for further reforms in the co-ordination of health and social services to treat victims appropriately and to minimise the long-term physical and mental harms caused by abuse.
"Ultimately, the question is not how much child protection we can afford, but how much child protection we can afford not to provide."
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