Package of Measures “Professional Child Protection in Carinthian Medicine”

(V.D.04) Healthcare, (V.D.05) Safety

Based on the information brochure “Professional Child Protection in Carinthia’s Medical System”, which was developed as a guideline for action, annual training events on topics relevant to child protection are now held. It is important that representatives of the medical system and social work take part in these events.

After a thematic focus on “Child protection in obstetrics” (2021) and further training for Carinthian school physicians (2022), there will be another intensive further training for the target group of midwives in 2023, as well as networking talks with the relevant departments of the two largest hospitals in Carinthia. In addition, further training events are planned for the entire hospitals in the district centers. Furthermore, the information materials prepared (see also https://kinderschutz.ktn.gv.at), including the completed “dialogue pictures” on physical violence and neglect, are to be successively communicated to the relevant groups of specialists and hospitals.

Official Name of Signatory

State of Carinthia (Austria)

Delegation

Europe

Website of the Signatory

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Name of the person presenting the Good Practice

Mag. FH) Raphael Schmid

Position/Job Title of person presenting the Good Practice

Head of sub-department

Aim of the Good Practice

- To strengthen the competence of people working in different areas of the health care professions with regard to child protection. - To sensitize Carinthian medicine to issues relevant to child protection and to make it responsible for them. - Strengthening cooperation between the medical system and public and private child and youth welfare services through inter-professional training events.

Target Group of the Good Practice

Doctors, nursing staff, and staff of the different health care professions.

Implementation period

Continuous processing

Consistency over time

The intervention is a long-term, ongoing, formative (learning) process with annual focus trainings, focused exchange forums, and the development of supporting information materials.

Evaluation of the Good Practice

Through close involvement of the annually changing focused sub-target groups of the health sector, training events on annual focused topics of child protection in medicine are implemented as precisely as possible and in line with needs.

Key stakeholders and partnerships

Various groups of specialists in private practice; relevant departments of Carinthian hospitals; umbrella organizations of the various health care professions (e.g. Carinthia Midwives' Committee); Carinthian Medical Association; representatives of public and private child and youth welfare services; other relevant actors in the psychosocial care landscape.

Link for more information

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Future Goal 1

Intensification of the coordination with the Medical Association of Carinthia and the relevant groups of specialists, as well as departments in the intramural area of the large hospitals.

Future Goal 2

Strengthening of cooperation processes with social work services through targeted publicizing of these services within the framework of the planned activities.

Future Goal 3

Elaboration of further action-strengthening information materials for child protection in medicine.