The num­ber of child abuse al­le­ga­tions na­tion­wide on a month­ly ba­sis has re­mained gen­er­al­ly con­sis­tent, ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cials in the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty, as they stress the need for a so­ci­etal ap­proach to pro­tect­ing chil­dren.

The da­ta was re­vealed dur­ing a sit­ting of a Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee (JSC) on Hu­man Rights, Equal­i­ty and Di­ver­si­ty on Fri­day, which fea­tured of­fi­cials from the Au­thor­i­ty along­side coun­ter­parts in the Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs.

Re­spond­ing to ques­tions from com­mit­tee mem­ber Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der, gen­er­al man­ag­er of Child Wel­fare Ser­vices, Rhon­da Gre­goire-Roopc­hand, said there has been a re­duc­tion in the num­ber of al­le­ga­tions in­volv­ing child abuse na­tion­wide.