Each year nearly 1 billion children experience some form of violence. Violence in childhood has a lifelong effect on the well-being, health, and education of the child. Realizing the importance in it's prevention, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Child maltreatment can result in mental and physical harm to the child as well as long-term negative consequences for the individual across their life-course. Delivering measurable reductions in child maltreatment requires action at political, practitione

This report calls on policy-makers, practitioners and activists from across government sectors and non-governmental organizations to enact a new public health approach, which has been shown to prevent much child maltreatment. This study finds that althoug