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Question: Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (SCAN Team): Early establishment, success stories, challenges and the way forward

Answer: This paper presents a pioneering program/initiative to prevent child abuse in Malaysia:
Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (hereafter SCAN Team). While there are three
main initiative/programs to prevent child abuse in Malaysia, namely Child Protection Team,
Child Protection Unit and SCAN Team; this paper focuses on only one initiative – SCAN
Team which based at the General Hospital Kuala Lumpur (hereafter GHKL). The presentation
of this paper is based on the findings of in-depth interview with focal person who manages
SCAN Team, and further supported by relevant important documents related to SCAN Team
(i.e. archives newspaper from SCAN Team, Malaysian Social Institute (Institut Sosial
Malaysia – ISM) and relevant secondary data). Findings of this study revealed that SCAN
Team has effectively deal with challenges during its early establishment; notably, SCAN
Team has received international recognition in 1998 for ‘protecting the lives of children’.
Nonetheless, the awareness of public about the existence of SCAN Team has waned in 21st
Century due to several issues and challenges. Despite this, SCAN Team is moving forward
through initiatives, in particular, re-marketing their program through various activities and
campaigns to prevent child abuse in Malaysia.

(Source: Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, 06 Jul 2021)

Source Link: https://jas.uitm.edu.my/images/CURRENT_ISSUES/5.pdf