Climbie: Policy reports

January 20, 2003 in Child safeguarding, Social care leaders, Workforce

news analysis of
report on future of children’s services

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.*
Aug 29, 2002
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.
Jul 30, 2002
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.
Jul 25, 2002
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.
Jul 25, 2002
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.*
Jul 9, 2002
Minister should lead child protection board
The government has been urged to set up a national child protection board to co-ordinate policies.
May 30, 2002
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.
May 9, 2002
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.
Feb 28, 2002
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.
Feb 28, 2002
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.
Jan 22, 2002
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.
Jan 23, 2002

The division bell
There is no question that child protection services in some parts of the country are a shambles.
Feb 15, 2001
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.
Feb 15, 2001
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.
Jan 18, 2001