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▏Section 4 Long-Term Employment for Social Workers Specializing
in Protective Services
1. Plan of strengthening local government social worker assignment and career development: In 2021, the plan subsidized 604 social workers who engaged in child protection and domestic violence and sexual assault prevention, with subsidies amounting to more than NTD 251 million.
2. Enforcing the Protective Social Workers Training Implementation Plan: According to the needs of protective social workers, the MOHW implemented related educational training, and upgraded the quality of professional services. In 2021, a total of 11 training sessions conducted, and 398 people participated.
Chapter 2 Prevention of Domestic Violence
To prevent domestic violence and protect the rights and interests of victims, we promoted and supervised local governments to proactively develop various victim protection support programs and deploy related service resources,
strengthen the offender treatment program and develop preventive service programs. In addition, we improved the professional competence of personnel through education and training. In 2018, we began to cooperate with the confirmation of the mechanism for division of labor and cooperation of protective services in the public and private sectors and the expansion of the function of the domestic violence protection network to enhance the efficiency of case handling and deepen victim services.
▏Section 1 Status of Domestic Violence Services
The Domestic Violence Prevention and Control Act (hereinafter referred to as the Domestic Violence Act) was promulgated on June 24, 1998, and more than 100,000 victims have been reported every year in recent years since then. In 2021, most of the reported cases involved intimate violence, with women being the majority of victims (79.6%). Meanwhile, cases of "violence by other family members" also mostly involved female victims (53.5%). The majority of victims in "child protection cases," on the other hand, were male (53.9%). The majority of victims in "Abuse of elder relatives by a younger person related by blood (or marriage)" cases were female (63.1%) (Figure 11-2).
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Figure 11-2
Reported Victims of Domestic Violence by Gender, 2021
80
20
53.9
45.7
46
152
Violence between Intimate Partners (Including marriage, divorce, and cohabitation)
Child and adolescent protection
Abuse of Elder Lineal
Relatives by Blood by Younger Lineal Relatives
Violence between other family members
Source: Ministry of Health and Welfare
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