Timing of the first report and highest level of child protection response in association with early developmental vulnerabilities in an Australian population cohort

Childhood maltreatment is associated with early childhood developmental vulnerabilities. However, the extent to which higher levels of child protection responses confer benefit to developmental competencies, and the impact of earlier timing of first reports in relation to early childhood vulnerability remains unclear.We examined associations between early developmental vulnerabilities and (1) the highest level of child protection response (where...