Listening, learning and acting: Preventing and responding to violence against children in homes and communities

Save the Children staff and child rights workers wanting to know more about relevant measures to protect children will benefit from reading and using this book. The book discusses the consequences of violence against children, gives an update on the UN Study on Violence against Children and advice on how to act to promote the protection of children. This book is about understanding:

• what violence against children means
• how children experience and are affected by violence
• how we as adults in our various roles as parents and professionals in homes and communities can try to prevent violence from happening
• how we can help in the best way possible children who have already experienced violence
• how we can support children in the fight to end violence against them