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Briggs, Freda – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
When the author was adviser to the Australian Minister for Education for writing the national Safe Schools Framework (2003), meetings were held with early-childhood care and education administrators from all state, Catholic and independent sectors. Their unexpected message was that educators were facing new problems, those of child sexual abuse in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Preschool Education
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Briggs, Freda; Hawkins, Russell M. F. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1994
Follow-up interviews 1 year after exposure to a national school-based personal safety program with 117 children in New Zealand found the children had retained and increased their safety strategies. Highly committed teachers were the most important variable in affecting gains by children. Middle-class children gained more from the program than did…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Followup Studies, Foreign Countries, Maintenance
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Briggs, Freda; Potter, Gillian K. – Early Child Development and Care, 2004
Prior to attending seminars on child abuse and domestic violence, 86 kindergarten and 64 special education (early childhood) teachers completed a questionnaire seeking views relating to the accuracy of statements relating to all forms of child abuse. This was designed to identify the accuracy of teachers' knowledge of child abuse and neglect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Disabilities, Special Education