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Summary of findings

• 48% of the organisations that completed stage two questionnaires showed an increase in their child abuse knowledge scores after 1 year.
• 50% of the organisations that completed stage two questionnaires showed an increase in the number of child protection behaviours operating within their organisations after one year.
• The level of knowledge of child abuse issues changed within both experimental and control organisations over the period of 1 year.
• The number of child protection behaviours operating within both experimental and control organisations changed over the period of 1 year.
• A statistically significant relationship was found between attending the seminar and knowledge change in an organisation.
• A statistically significant relationship was found between attending the seminar and a change in the number of child protection behaviours operating within an organisation.

Improving child abuse knowledge within organisations

• Of the organisations that improved in child abuse knowledge, 45% had attended the Childsafe seminar, 21% had received the Childsafe pack without the seminar and 34% of the organisations had not received a specific intervention.
• Attending the Childsafe seminar increased the likelihood that an organisation would improve its child abuse knowledge when compared with organisations that received the Childsafe pack without attending the seminar.
• Attending the Childsafe seminar did not increase the likelihood that an organisation would improve its child abuse knowledge when compared with organisations that did not receive a specific intervention.
• No statistically significant differences were found between knowledge change in organisations that had received the Childsafe pack without the seminar and those that had received no specific intervention.

Improving the number of child protection behaviours operating within organisations

• Of the organisations that increased the number of child protection behaviours operating within their organisations after 1 year, 48% had attended a Childsafe Seminar, 26% had received a Childsafe pack without the seminar and 26% had received no specific intervention.
• Attending the Childsafe seminar increased the likelihood that an organisation would show an improvement in the number of child protection behaviours operating within it 1 year later when compared with organisations that received the Childsafe pack without attending the seminar.
• Attending the Childsafe seminar increased the likelihood that an organisation would show an improvement in the number of child protection behaviours operating within the organisation when compared with organisations that did not receive any specific intervention.
• No statistically significant differences were found between child protection behaviour change in organisations that had received the Childsafe pack without the seminar and those that had received no specific intervention.

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