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• School dinners at heart of child obesity debate

  Two stories, two pages apart caught my eye in last Tuesday's issue of the Daily Telegraph. Read More... Posted Jun 30 2008, 10:34 AM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: child protection, children and young people, health

• Child obesity is not child abuse!

  by Adam McCulloch Fellow Community Care blogger Simon Stevens wonders - not entirely seriously - if we'll see the day when you could be arrested for eating a Big Mac or ordering fish and chips . I laughed out loud on reading this but then I noticed... Posted Jun 16 2008, 02:16 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: child abuse, child protection, Adam McCulloch, children and young people, health, simon stevens, child obesity

• Jumping the gun on child's death

  How many vulnerable children will die before these lessons are finally learnt? Thus speaks a Daily Mail comment piece today in relation to the tragic case of Khyra Ishaq, a seven-year-old girl who died in hospital over the weekend in Birmingham. This... Posted May 22 2008, 09:27 AM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: child protection, Mithran Samuel, Daily Mail, Birmingham children's services, victoria climbie

• No excuses for paedophiles

  by Natalie Valios Occasionally, decisions by the judiciary make my heart sink. A case in point is the story in today’s papers which reports on a court case involving 20-year-old Jon Dixon who tried to rape an 11-year-old girl. Read More... Posted May 09 2008, 04:00 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: child protection, Judge Robert Atherton; Jon Dixon; attempted rape; paedophile

• Josef Fritzl: Austrian idyl cracks

  by Adam McCulloch The story of Josef F , of humble Amstetten, has ushered Austria into a new period of self-doubt, even deeper than that brought on by the discovery of Natascha Kampusch's imprisonment in a cellar in 2006. Read More... Posted Apr 29 2008, 04:53 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: child protection, Adam McCulloch, Elisabeth, Josef Fritzl, Austria

• Strictly Baby Fight Club: Channel 4's kids fighting shocker

  by Adam McCulloch Don't like to use this medium to depress people, especially so soon after dismissing the Children's Society poll on children's well-being as being too pessimistic, but most people who saw Channel 4's Strictly Baby Fight... Posted Apr 25 2008, 02:07 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: Media, child protection, Adam McCulloch, children and young people, children's society, channel 4, strictly baby fight club, sport, nspcc, television programme

• Unfair repercussions of legal aid changes

  From October 1st last year no legal aid funding has been available for placements in family assessment centres - used when care proceedings have begun to assess parents' parenting ability. This means that such placements now have to be soley funded... Posted Apr 09 2008, 04:31 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: child protection, legal aid, children, councils, judge, parents

• Jersey: Island of Secrets

  Where there’s abuse, there’s denial. That’s the picture emerging from the Jersey child abuse investigation. While no evidence has yet been tried in court – with just one person charged to date – the accounts of former residents of children’s homes are... Posted Apr 01 2008, 03:22 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: jersey, child protection

• Jersey: the floodgates open

  by Maria Ahmed People in Jersey are finally speaking out in the wake of child abuse allegations on the island. Earlier this month, there was a public rally in support of victims. People used the meeting to criticise the way in which the Jersey authorities... Posted Mar 18 2008, 12:32 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: You Tube, Community Care, the BBC, the daily telegraph, facebook, Newsnight, jersey, Jersey Evening Post, Haut de la Garenne, Stuart Syvret, Frank Walker, the mirror, children's services, child abuse, St Helier, the daily mail, the Economist, child protection

• Forced marriage: does this poster offend?

  by Adam McCulloch There are reports this morning that there has been an outbreak of, as one MP puts it, “lily-liveredness” in schools concerning an anti-forced marriage government poster (pictured). Some headteachers are concerned that the poster will... Posted Mar 14 2008, 12:03 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: child protection, bradford, faith groups, poster, luton, birmingham, dcsf, tower hamlets, Adam McCulloch, ethnic minorities, children and young people, forced marriages, leeds

• Why does Lisa Arthurworrey want to be a social worker?

  Sitting through Lisa Arthurworrey’s appeal hearing at the Care Standards Tribunal last week, the question going through my mind was not whether she should be allowed to become a registered social worker but why on earth she would want to return to the... Posted Mar 12 2008, 03:27 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: child protection