Child protection is used to describe a set of usually government-run services designed to protect children and young people who are underage and to encourage family stability. These typically include foster care, adoption services, services aimed at supporting at-risk families so they can remain intact, and investigation of alleged child abuse. In Ghana there is not much data/statistic available to measure how many children are experiencing Abuse in any form, however Global March and Unicef has a few data for Ghana which can be accessed here:
http://www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/ghana.html
http://www.unicef.org/wcaro/wcaro_WCIII_good_practice_Ghana.pdf
This Page is to campaign against Ghanaian Children who are experiencing any type of abuse,
Types of Abuse Children Should under any circumstances experiences are listed below
• Neglect including the failure to take adequate measures to safeguard a child from harm and/or gross negligence in providing for a child's basic needs:
• Physical abuse
• Psychological abuse
• Rape
• Incest
• Compulsion of Marriage
• Female Genital Mutilation
• Defilement
• Forced to watch or engage in Pronography
• Child Labour
• Attempted Abuse
• Torture
• Kidnapping
• Prostitution
• Emotional Blackmail
• Child slavery
• Child Prostitution
• Neglect
• Psychological Abuse
• Emotional abuse
• Physical Abuse
• fabrication of illnesses/
• To observe domestic Violence
• Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome
The Children Act 1989 sets out in detail what local authorities and the courts should do to
protect the welfare of children. It charges local authorities with the “duty to investigate … if
they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child who lives, or is found, in their area is
suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm” (section 47). Child Protection Ghana Campaigns against the types of abuse listed above and if you suspect a child is been maltreated it must be reported to the police or the Ghana welfare board.
