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What a contrast in the reactions of this morning's
newspapers to the sentence handed down to paedophile nursery nurse Vanessa
George. Read More...
Could this really happen? There is a move to introduce a law
- or at least Whitehall has refused to rule one out, according the Daily
Telegraph - to ban parents from smoking in front of their children. Read More...
Sober as a judge. It's not an expression that springs to
mind today, although we are not privy to the information that the three appeal
court judges had in front of them yesterday as they decided the fate of baby P
lodger Jason Owen . Read More.....
I have heard the expression
"killing with kindness" but in Italy a mother has appeared in court accused of maltreating her son by mollycoddling . Read More...
Action for Children's latest report shows a disturbing rise
in the number child neglect cases. Perhaps as many as 1.5 million children suffer a form of neglect - and in England last year nearly 17,000
children were registered on child protection plans...
Could this happen only in America? Two parents chose divine
intervention over medical intervention as their 11-year-old daughter lay dying
of an undiagnosed but treatable form of diabetes at their rural home. Read More...
It would be a cliché to say there are no easy answers. But even to attempt to answer why the defendants in the Little Ted's nursery case, heard yesterday at
Bristol Crown Court, behaved as they did is among the most difficult of all. Read More...
The brilliant QC Michael Mansfield describes his job as
"defending the indefensible". This week Hollywood, politicians and literary
figures have been coming over all Michael Mansfield about film director and,
let us not forget, child sex offender...
We knew David Cameron had it in for ContactPoint , the child
database that is being piloted in some areas. Now the Liberal Democrats say
they want it scrapped. Read More...
And now comes the inevitable compensation claim. It is
reported that the biological father of Baby Peter is to seek reparations from
Haringey Council for the toddler's death. Read More...
Ah, the power of the
fourth estate: so mighty were the combined forces of the Mirror group and the
Times, along with the BBC, that a High Court judge simply had to reveal the
identities of the mother and stepfather of Baby Peter. Read More...
The controversy over the children's authors who will have to
prove that they are not paedophiles (if it is possible to prove you are not something) before being allowed
into schools has convinced me that the UK is on one big child
protection guilt...
Social workers and care staff are more than familiar with
the vagaries of the Criminal Records Bureau. Read More...
Sometimes when a judge passes what seems to be an unduly
lenient sentence it is natural to sit back and ponder: "Did I miss something?" Read More...
How do families evade scrutiny by social workers when there are signs of child neglect or harm? Some of them manage it - so the social worker has to be savvy about the methods. Read More...
The flaws in child protection and how social workers can be aided to iron out these flaws are being examined. Read More...
If the Conservatives win the next general election, it will
mean the end of the seemingly jinxed child database, ContactPoint. Read More...
This morning I read a Community Care article headlined
"Haringey social services fights back". Damned right it should, I thought, and
continued. Read More...
For those of us who are concerned about the destruction of
the natural world, the plan to turn the Chagos Islands into a marine reserve on
the scale of Australia's Great Barrier Reef is an exciting one. Read More...
For someone so critical of people who dismiss children as
feral, it was strange to read about Barnardo's boss Martin Narey using that
word himself in relation to the Baby P case. Read More...
In this age of freedom of information legislation and
whistleblowers' rights, it is perverse that those staff who have the guts to do the honourable thing and expose wrongdoing are likely to run into a career cul-de-sac. Read More...
David Cameron rightly looked angry in the House of Commons
yesterday that a child of 17 months had been savagely killed. But did he have
to sound so angry? Read More...
Did anyone watch Coronation Street last night? More
specifically, did anyone watch the ad break during the 8.30pm episode? If you
did you would have noticed the NSPCC 's latest campaign. Read More...
When children's charities have a perspective on chid
protection that is poles apart from that held by the public at large, one is
minded to side with the former. Read More...
Few will be welcoming the homecoming of child sex offender
Paul Gadd, alias former glam rock star Gary Glitter, should he decide not to
disembark at Bangkok on his flight from Vietnam to the UK today . Read More...