A call has been made to government to better resource the safety net structures to absorb the many children who suffer abuse in the country.
Making the call during a presentation at the maiden seminar series on completed Directorate of Research, Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC) research support grant project for 2019, Dr. Lydia Aframea Dankyi, a senior lecturer with the College of Distance Education of the University of Cape Coast said the safety net structures currently available in the country is not enough or well-resourced to cater for children who continue to endure abuse because they have no place to seek shelter
She spoke on the topic: child abuse in basic schools in Ghana: Awareness and utilization of safety net structures.
“The government of Ghana should resource these safety net structures so that they can carry out their constitutional mandate. As it is now, there are not well resourced and these children are saying that where do we run to when we are abused and these institutions are also saying that we also don’t have the shelter houses. So the government of Ghana must come in” she appealed.
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She also stated that even though parents have the right to correct children when they go wrong, it is inappropriate to give punishment that causes severe injuries or pain.
She added that “the advice to parents is that, yes we have the right to correct but not to inflict injuries on the children. We should do it in a lovely manner so that these children will not see it as pain or will not be hurt what we do”.
