The jury still seems to be out on the government’s final version of Working Together. Here, Chloe Setter, advocacy officer at ECPAT UK, explains why the organisation believes children will be worse off under the revisions Children who have been exploited and trafficked are some of the most vulnerable in our society. But they are [...]
Cafcass is wrong, benefit cuts will not necessarily see more children taken into care, writes child protection consultant Joanna Nicolas ‘There is a view being expressed in the media that because there are an increasing number of families living in poverty, more children are being taken into care because these families cannot provide for their children. [...]
As research director and Inform expert Emilie Smeaton wrote yesterday, sexual exploitation is an insidious form of child abuse happening all over the UK. Yet despite government announcements and media headlines, 77% of the social workers we polled feel less than confident that their area would respond effectively to cases of child sexual exploitation. So, here’s [...]
Child sexual exploitation is aninsidious form of child abuse that has damaging and long lasting impacts, writes Emilie Smeaton, research director of Paradigm research. Overthe past two years there has been an explosion of media attention upon child sexual exploitation (CSE) anda general awareness among professionals that children from arange of social and ethnic backgrounds [...]
Like Jimmy Savile, paedophiles will always locate the places where they are not scrutinised, writes team manager Judith Acreman, defending her comments that government adoption targets will leave children at greater risk from abusers Recently, comments I made to a BASW parliamentary inquiry – that the six-month time limit for approving adopters risks child abusers [...]
Some interesting findings from a straw poll of children’s social workers: Nearly two thirds say news stories and government reports on child sexual exploitation have raised awareness and concern in their safeguarding teams. However, 65% have received no further training and 77% feel less than confident that their area is effectively responding to such abuse. [...]
Rochdale council has appointed an interim executive director for children’s services while it looks for a permanent replacement for outgoing chief Cheryl Eastwood. Interim executive DCS Gladys Rhodes White (pictured) started her role this week and will be in post until a new director is appointed, succeeding Eastwood who retired this summer. Last month, Rochdale’s director of [...]
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It is written by Community Care’s children's beat editor Camilla Pemberton.
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