| A new report calls for a major debate on the future shape of children's services and argues against a national child protection agency. Janet Snell reports. | ||
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| Have your say | ||
| Do you think there should be a national agency for child protection services? The government is said to be considering an agency in response to the Victoria Climbie inquiry. | ||
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| Radical changes in the pipeline | ||
| Speculation is growing that the government will announce the formation of a new child protection agency in response to Lord Laming's report on the Victoria Climbie Inquiry, due by the end of the year. | ||
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| Under the influence | ||
| One of the most important lessons to emerge from the Victoria Climbie Inquiry is that presumptions about culture and ethnicity should play no part in child protection decisions, says Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. | ||
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| New London-wide child protection committee launched | ||
| Draft London-wide child protection guidelines designed to reduce inconsistencies in practice across the capital and to improve inter-agency working have been published, writes Lauren Revans. | ||
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| Minister should lead child protection board | ||
| The government has been urged to set up a national child protection board to co-ordinate policies. | ||
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| Time to commit | ||
| In the first of a series focusing on child protection in the light of the Victoria Climbie Inquiry, Ruth Winchester looks at factors that limit the effectiveness of area child protection committees. | ||
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| Child protection needs overhaul | ||
| Seventy-one per cent of visitors to Community Care's website believe a new child protection agency should be established to oversee the child protection system, in light of the evidence from the Victoria Climbie Inquiry. | ||
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| List-based approach is not enough | ||
| In the second of our series on the future of child protection, David Thorpe says the Victoria Climbie inquiry may prove to be the catalyst that sees child protection orthodoxy supplanted by new methods of work. | ||
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| Climbie inquiry to look at new child protection agency proposal | ||
| The Victoria Climbie inquiry is to consider whether the setting up of a new child protection agency would help address inconsistencies in the organisation and delivery of children's services, by Janet Snell and Lauren Revans. | ||
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| Director rejects Laming suggestion that councils should lose control of children`s services | ||
| A suggestion by Lord Laming that if responsibility for children's services were taken away from local authorities, those services might improve, was rejected by one of the witnesses at the Victoria Climbie inquiry, writes Janet Snell. | ||
| The division bell | ||
| There is no question that child protection services in some parts of the country are a shambles. | ||
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| We must all be vigilant | ||
| Child protection needs to become the duty of all of us, not just social workers. And we should not be afraid to bruise adults' egos if it saves a child from abuse, writes Peter White. | ||
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| Need for national strategy | ||
| Children's charity the NSPCC said only a national strategy on child abuse deaths will help ensure the Anna Climbie tragedy becomes the last of its kind. | ||
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