id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-264612-paewji35 Øverlien, Carolina The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Children in Domestic Violence Refuges 2020-08-18 .txt text/plain 3289 144 54 As such, when reports began arriving from different parts of the world concerning a possible increase of domestic violence and abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic (see, for example, Godin, 2020) , my colleagues and I constructed a web-based survey to distribute to all refuges in Norway (N ¼ 46). The questions focused on four main topics: 1) changes in the '[The survery] covers the four to six weeks following the implementation of the government's strict, wide-ranging virus control measures' and Children in Domestic Violence Refuges services due to the pandemic; 2) the refuges' cooperation with other services; 3) what the refuge staff saw as most worrying in the current situation and what they saw as vital in order to support victims; and 4) changes in the requests and motivations for contacting the refuges. In Norway, it is mandatory that school staff report concerns about abuse to the child protection services; as such, they also represent an important safety net for children and adolescents exposed to violence. ./cache/cord-264612-paewji35.txt ./txt/cord-264612-paewji35.txt