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A call for inclusion, mutual accountability and action: Michelle Egan-Bitran the role of the religious sector in preventing and addressing violence and child abuse

By: Egan-Bitran, Michelle.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Safeguarding Children.Publisher: Safeguarding Children, 2023Description: electronic document (285 pages) ; PDF file.Subject(s): CHRISTIAN FAITH | CHILD ABUSE | INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE | PREVENTION | RELIGION | NEW ZEALANDOnline resources: Read online In: Safeguarding Children, October 2023Summary: This article explores the unique role and mandate of the religious sector and the implications of this in preventing and addressing violence and child abuse. It calls on New Zealand government ministries to include the religious sector in joined up approaches to violence and child abuse prevention and intervention and for religious institutions and communities to prioritise these issues, harness their potential to prevent and respond to child abuse and address barriers within their religious settings which can perpetuate or enable such violence and abuse. (From the article). The author completed her thesis, "The gremlin of silence" : exploring the New Zealand Catholic, Methodist, and Presbyterian religious institutional responses to interpersonal violence, in 2022 (#8395). Record 8398
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Safeguarding Children, October 2023

This article explores the unique role and mandate of the religious sector and the implications of this in preventing and
addressing violence and child abuse. It calls on New Zealand government ministries to include the religious sector in
joined up approaches to violence and child abuse prevention and intervention and for religious institutions and
communities to prioritise these issues, harness their potential to prevent and respond to child abuse and address barriers
within their religious settings which can perpetuate or enable such violence and abuse. (From the article).

The author completed her thesis, "The gremlin of silence" : exploring the New Zealand Catholic, Methodist, and Presbyterian religious institutional responses to interpersonal violence, in 2022 (#8395). Record 8398