Research and Advocacy Standing Committee
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The Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Standing Committee was formed under the Singapore Children's Society
in Singapore
in 1989, and was renamed as Research and Advocacy Standing Committee (RASC) in 2003.
The committee comprises pediatricians, forensic pathologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, social workers, and lawyers. It also has representatives from the Ministry of Health
, Ministry of Home Affairs
, and professional bodies like the Singapore Paediatric Society.
The RASC has been actively involved in training of professionals working with alleged child abuse cases, educating and counselling caregivers on effective child upbringing methods, research as well as public education through talks in schools, seminars, exhibitions and production of literature. Professionals and students interested in this topic can also visit its resource centre with its collection of books, manuals, journals and articles on child abuse
and neglect
and related topics.
The RASC also participates actively in region
al and international
International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) conferences. The Singapore Children's Society participated in the ISPCAN conference held in Denver, Colorado
in July 2002, with an oral presentation on Perceptions of emotional child maltreatment in Singapore: Implications for economically developed and developing countries.
Singapore Children's Society
The Singapore Children's Society is a charitable organisation which looks after the welfare of children. It is committed to protect the physical, emotional and mental well-being of disadvantaged children.-History:...
in Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
in 1989, and was renamed as Research and Advocacy Standing Committee (RASC) in 2003.
The committee comprises pediatricians, forensic pathologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, social workers, and lawyers. It also has representatives from the Ministry of Health
Ministry of Health (Singapore)
The Ministry of Health is a ministry of the Government of Singapore responsible for providing information, raising health awareness and education, ensuring the accessibility of health services, and monitoring the quality of health services provided to citizens and visitors in the Republic of...
, Ministry of Home Affairs
Ministry of Home Affairs (Singapore)
The Ministry of Home Affairs is a ministry of the Government of Singapore responsible for public safety, civil defence and immigration. It is also known as the Home Team. It is headed by the Minister for Home Affairs....
, and professional bodies like the Singapore Paediatric Society.
The RASC has been actively involved in training of professionals working with alleged child abuse cases, educating and counselling caregivers on effective child upbringing methods, research as well as public education through talks in schools, seminars, exhibitions and production of literature. Professionals and students interested in this topic can also visit its resource centre with its collection of books, manuals, journals and articles on child abuse
Child abuse
Child abuse is the physical, sexual, emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Children And Families define child maltreatment as any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or...
and neglect
Neglect
Neglect is a passive form of abuse in which a perpetrator is responsible to provide care for a victim who is unable to care for himself or herself, but fails to provide adequate care....
and related topics.
The RASC also participates actively in region
Region
Region is most commonly found as a term used in terrestrial and astrophysics sciences also an area, notably among the different sub-disciplines of geography, studied by regional geographers. Regions consist of subregions that contain clusters of like areas that are distinctive by their uniformity...
al and international
International
----International mostly means something that involves more than one country. The term international as a word means involvement of, interaction between or encompassing more than one nation, or generally beyond national boundaries...
International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) conferences. The Singapore Children's Society participated in the ISPCAN conference held in Denver, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
in July 2002, with an oral presentation on Perceptions of emotional child maltreatment in Singapore: Implications for economically developed and developing countries.