The urgent need for ethical guidelines to protect children in the dissemination of research findings.

Despite extensive literature on the ethical requirements for children’s involvement in research (see for example, Alderson Morrow, 2011; Mudaly & Goddard, 2009, 2006), we are concerned that there are significant omissions. Presenters at hild abuse conferences are not required to declare the ethical processes they followed in their research. Nor are there equirements for the ethical dissemination of research findings. Dissemination of research is essential and may include the use of photographs either for clinical purposes or to enhance resentations (Creighton, Alderson, Brown, & Minto, 2002). Yet ethical guidelines for use of the images appear to be nonxistent. Roberts (2008, p. 225) states that ‘while taking the views and feelings of children is one thing, parading them is uite another’. In our experience, images of vulnerable children have frequently been ‘paraded’ sometimes by renowned esearchers in child abuse conferences without reference to the ethical processes followed in the research. We believe that onference organisers must ensure that presenters clearly state the ethical processes followed in the research. They must lso ensure that research is presented ethically.