Tag Archives | child protection

Practitioner having a difficult conversation with a young man at a table

Children, Workforce

‘What I wish I had known about having difficult conversations with parents’

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Woman and son having intense discussion with a social worker

Children, Social work leaders

Parents increasingly making covert recordings of social workers for court, say family justice leaders

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Adults, Children, Workforce

‘It’s about fostering relationships and learning’: social work leaders on navigating multidisciplinary teams

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Falling Red Arrow Chart on Black Background 3D Illustration

Children, Social work leaders

Number of reported child deaths or serious harm cases down by a quarter in two years

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Children, Inform Children

Rethinking ‘disguised compliance’ in child protection practice

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Children

Will the national child protection agency help improve practice in England?

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Young boy in a hoodie in what appears to be the grounds of a prison looking downcast

Children, Social work leaders

Government authorises use of synthetic pepper spray in YOIs against Youth Justice Board advice

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Jess Phillips, the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, standing in front of a Union flag

Children, Social work leaders

National child protection agency to provide oversight of practice in England

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Children

More than half of practitioners feel ill-equipped to address social media’s influence on children

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Children

Racial bias greatly affects child protection practice, say social workers

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A man's pointing hand next to the inscription mandatory on yellow background

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

No criminal sanction for failing to report child sexual abuse under mandatory reporting plan

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black girl talking to adult woman

Children, Social work leaders

‘Sea change’ needed in approach to race in safeguarding practice, says national panel

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Child looking out of window longingly

Children, Social work leaders

Number of children on protection plans for CSA at 30-year low, experts warn

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Yvette Cooper

Adults, Children

Child criminal exploitation and ‘cuckooing’ of vulnerable people to be made criminal offences

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Isabella Jonas-Wheildon

Children, Social work leaders

Toddler’s murder shows need for cross-border child protection guidance, finds case review

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A typewriter with a page on which the following words are typed: 'The Monster at Night by Rosie R.'

Children

The Monster at Night: a poem about the struggles of a disabled child

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