Monitoring the nature and extent of violence against children is the first step to developing evidence-based child protection and violence prevention programmes and services.
Despite the legal prohibition of corporal punishment in schools in South Africa since 1997, the use of corporal punishment in schools continues to be widespread
Surveys allow us to capture experiences of physical violence at any point during a child's life, including those incidents that have not been reported to authorities.
Surveys allow us to capture experiences of sexual violence at any point during a child's life, including those incidents that have not been reported to authorities.
Emotional abuse can take a broad range of forms. The Optimus study took a fairly narrow approach to measuring emotional abuse and produced a relatively low estimate for the prevalence of emotional abuse amongst adolescents.
Physical child neglect is when a caregiver fails to provide a child with sufficient supervision, nourishment or medical care, or to meet a child's other basic needs when he or she is able to do so.