MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Complex problems require comprehensive, integrated solutions. Our array of expertise, resources and networks makes working smarter and more effectively possible.
AGILE
Because the world changes rapidly, we must embrace change, opportunity and rise up to the challenges. Using data, we remove the stigma and face the realities. For every child.
DISRUPTIVE
By bringing diversity of thought to conventional thinking, we innovate and maximize the good we can do for children and families in the world. Connecting the dots outside traditional boundaries.
ISPCAN is a global membership organization for anyone working in the protection of child rights. From every discipline and sector, we break down silos across sectors to help find innovative, child centered solutions. Wherever children live, learn and play under the care of adults are opportunities for intervention and prevention.
We connect multi-disciplinary professionals across sectors together, and with data, tools and resources to think differently. We ensure that data informs practice, practice informs research, and that policy development will make lasting, quality improvements in child protection systems. Ultimately our goal is to build better public health systems of care to improve the prevention, detection, and response to child abuse and neglect.
Working together with our members and partners, ISPCAN innovates and accelerates change so that a brighter future for all kids is possible.
August 24th - 27th, 2026
Join the Changemakers in Global Innovative Research and Best Practice in Child Protection
We are excited to share that our 2025 Impact Report is now live.
We reflect with pride on a year defined by purpose, collaboration, and progress to end child abuse and neglect. In a time of growing global challenges, ISPCAN remained focused on one central aim: helping countries and professionals strengthen prevention-oriented, integrated systems that respond effectively to the needs of children and families.
Read the full report to learn about our public health approach to child protection, our global convening impact, and educational resources for members.
We’re grateful to everyone who helped make this work possible.
NEW! Cutting-Edge Projects from our ISPCAN Child Maltreatment Data Collection Working Group
Valid and reliable data is vital in supporting global monitoring and prevention efforts in ending violence against children. In 1992, the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Working Group on Child Maltreatment Data Collection was founded to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss challenges encountered in data collection on violence against children.
Over the past 30+ years, the Working Group has allowed for much needed interdisciplinary and cross-country discussion on topics such as the ethics of data collection, development of self-report measures, administrative data linkage and creating minimum datasets for national level monitoring of child abuse and neglect and its prevention, treatments, prosecution and effective management of cases from all sectors. This Special Issue elaborates on current challenges, opportunities and innovation in data collection on violence against children in a global context. We invite all researchers and practitioners who are engaged in data collection, analysis, linkage, management, policy development, and practice use to submit manuscripts.
The first regional Rise Up Policy Forum + Huddle will take place in Africa, from 23-25 February 2027 in Kampala, Uganda. The Forum + Huddle will explore the contexts, strengths, challenges and solutions specific to the African region, convening African child protection expertise, promoting strong national child protection systems, and creating a regional dialogue aimed at transforming child protection into a more data-informed, collaborative, and preventive system.
Ten years ago, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and seven international partners launched INSPIRE: Seven Strategies to End Violence Against Children. Since 2016, INSPIRE has guided national action plans, donor investments, and multi-sectoral coordination across more than 100 countries, uniting governments, researchers, and practitioners around a shared vision: that violence against children is not inevitable—it is preventable.
In partnership with SVRI, The INSPIRE Working Group, WHO, UNICEF and other key partners, this webinar celebrated a decade of evidence in action and highlight the next phase of INSPIRE’s global implementation and research agenda. It brought together global leaders, researchers, and practitioners to discuss what the new evidence means for countries, sectors, and systems working to end violence against children.
Listen to the Recording!
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Impact of International Policy and Defunding on Child protection
