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Implementation
provides a central entry point that enables young people to seek specific help. The parties involved
hope to be able to launch a basic version of the online reporting button in the autumn of 2011. This
button can be downloaded as an application and is suitable for the major Internet browsers. Whenever
a young person clicks on the reporting button he/she is taken to a website where he/she can
submit a specific request for help and be referred to a care agency, which can be contacted (usually
anonymously) by telephone, e-mail or chat facility (depending on the service provided by the body
concerned). 197 The basic version will then be gradually developed further. A reporting button will also
be developed that websites can embed into their own content. This will enable young people to click
directly on the reporting button whenever they visit a website in order to call for help with their issue.
3.3.2.3 <strong>Child</strong> Abuse Counselling and Reporting Centre 198
There are 21 <strong>Child</strong> Abuse Counselling and Reporting Centres (AMKs) in the Netherlands that form a point
of contact of the Youth Care Agencies. Anyone who knows of or suspects an incidence of child abuse, 199
including sexual violence, may contact an AMK. The AMK can provide advice that may be followed by a
consultation, or it can launch an investigation. In the case of the former, the individual who has contacted
the AMK remains responsible for taking further action. If the AMK launches an investigation, a
notification report is deemed to have been made, and the responsibility lies with the AMK. If it emerges
from the investigation by the AMK that child abuse has taken place, the AMK will ensure that the necessary
assistance and protection is provided. Reports of child abuse to the AMK are most frequently (and
increasingly) sent by professionals working in close proximity to minors 200 (such as educational institutions,
doctors, hospitals, youth healthcare institutions, the police 201 and so forth).
Recording of data by the <strong>Child</strong> Abuse Counselling and Reporting Centres
In 2009, the AMKs dispensed advice in relation to sexual abuse 202 on more than 1,740 separate occasions
203 and lent support in more than 750 cases 204 in a consultation concerning sexual abuse. 205 In
197 It is important that this ‘behind-the-scenes’ system for the reporting button is well organised. Young
people must receive a response to a report within a short time. It is therefore imperative that the
parties running this call button initiative coordinate their activities with one another and are able to
clearly distinguish between their respective roles. The organisations must also effectively embed this
additional means of seeking help into their organisation so that they are able to respond appropriately
to the request for help.
198 MOgroep Jeugdzorg, 2010.
199 Other forms of child abuse that are mentioned include: physical abuse, physical neglect, psychological
violence, affective neglect, bearing witness to domestic violence, Münchhausen syndrome by proxy,
educational neglect and miscellaneous/other (MOgroep Jeugdzorg, 2010).
200 In 2006, these reports accounted for approximately two thirds of all reports, and in 2009 approximately
three quarters of the total number of reports.
201 The police, for example, report children to the AMK who have been witnesses to domestic violence. However,
the police can also identify victims of sexual abuse and child pornography as part of their surveillance
activities on the Internet (such as in Habbo). Further information about this can be found in §3.8.3.1.
202 This figure equates to 5.36% of 32,501 (MOgroep Jeugdzorg, 2010).
203 Whether or not in combination with a different form of child abuse (MOgroep Jeugdzorg, 2010).
204 This figure equates to 7.26% of 10,364 (MOgroep Jeugdzorg, 2010).
205 Whether or not in combination with a different form of child abuse (MOgroep Jeugdzorg, 2010).
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