Been thinking through the child protection implications of Covid19: presumably we will see a huge drop in abuse/neglect reports this year with kids at home and cut off from mandatory reporters - most of whom are teachers, health workers, police.

And even if they receive a report, how do social workers investigate abuse and neglect when the home environment itself carries a risk of infection to the worker?

Meanwhile online abuser communities are mobilising to take advantage of the unprecedented presence of kids online. The dark web chatter is pretty grim.