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Are they safe?: a safeguarding guide for group leaders in the voluntary and community sector working with children and young people aged 0-18

Welcome to the NSPCC’s Are They Safe? guide. It is written for leaders of a wide range of voluntary, community and faith groups working with children and young people of all ages and providing a...

Arrangements to secure children’s and adult safeguarding in the future NHS

The NHS is currently in the process of implementing a major programme of reform following the passage of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. This is designed to support the creation of a health...

Barnahus: Improving the response to child sexual abuse in England

In England, it is estimated that only 1 in 8 victims of child sexual abuse are identified by the authorities. Children who disclose that they have been sexually abused face multiple interviews with...

BASW Briefing for MPs - 2nd Reading Commons Stage

Despite a number of changes that were made to the Children and Social Work Bill during its time in the House of Lords, The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) remains concerned about key...

Analysing child deaths and serious injury through abuse and neglect: what can we learn?

Serious case reviews are carried out when abuse and neglect are known or suspected factors when a child dies (or is seriously injured or harmed), and there are lessons to be learnt about inter-agency...

Armed against adversity

Derek Blincow, Helen Thomas, Angie Hart and Heather Gage outline the implications for social work practice of their brand of Resilient Therapy. They employ coping strategies to enable abused and...

BASW England written evidence to the Children and Social Work Public Bill Committee

1. BASW (British Association of Social Workers) is the UK professional association for social work, led by and accountable to a growing population of approximately 22,000 social worker members. Our...

BASW Compass Jobs Fair presentations - Working Together to Safeguard Children - a new era in Safeguarding

BASW England staff have been presenting at recent Compass Jobs Fairs in Manchester (October) and London (November). Presentation ''Working Together to Safeguard Children - a new era in Safeguarding'...

Assessing Parental Capacity to Change when Children are on the Edge of Care: an overview of current research evidence

Assessing Parental Capacity to Change when Children are on the Edge of Care is an overview of current research evidence, bringing together some of the key research messages concerning factors which...

An Unspeakable Abuse

In the wake of PR guru Max Clifford's conviction for historic sexual abuse, Peter Saunders tells PSW of the sexual abuse he suffered in his childhood and the impact it had on his life,

Audit and Analysis of Significant Case Reviews

This report presents the findings from an audit and analysis of 56 Significant Case Reviews (SCRs) and 43 Initial Case Reviews (ICRs) conducted in Scotland since 2007.

Are we getting it right for young victims of crime?

This review presents the findings from a research project carried out by the Victims’ Commissioner Office into the provision of children’s entitlements as set out in the Victims’ Code. The purpose of...

Ages of concern: learning lessons from serious case reviews

This report provides a thematic analysis of 482 serious case reviews that Ofsted evaluated between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2011. The main focus of this report is on the reviews that concerned...

An Exploration of Knowledge about Child Abuse Linked to Faith or Belief

This groundbreaking new research investigates current knowledge and raises awareness of child abuse linked to faith or belief. Internationally, cases of child abuse linked to faith or belief (CALFB)...

All Wales Child Protection Procedures

It is recognised that the Local Safeguarding Children Boards have a broad scope of responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, however these procedures are about their...

An exploration of e-safety messages to young people, parents and practitioners in Northern Ireland

In June 2013, The National Children’s Bureau (NCB NI) was commissioned by the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (SBNI) to undertake a scoping study to explore current e-safety messages for...

All of our concern: commercialisation, sexualisation and hypermasculinity

Family Lives has published this report to take forward the useful debate that has been most recently built upon by the 2011 Review of the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood undertaken...

Adverse Childhood Experiences and their association with Mental Well-being in the Welsh adult population

Over 2,000 adults aged 18-69 years participated in the ACE Study for Wales, providing anonymous information on their exposure to ACEs before the age of 18 years and their health and lifestyles as...

Adverse Childhood Experiences and their impact on health-harming behaviours in the Welsh adult population

An increasing body of research identifies the long-term harms that can result from chronic stress on individuals during childhood. Such stress arises from the abuse and neglect of children but also...

Allegations of domestic abuse in child contact cases

This report sets out the findings of a small-scale study undertaken by Cafcass, with Women’s Aid, looking at domestic abuse allegations in 216 child contact cases. The purpose of the study was to...

Advertising to children

Advertisements and promotions are a feature of modern life. In the UK, the content of advertising, sales promotions and direct marketing across all media, including marketing on websites, is self-...

Adverse Childhood Experiences and their association with chronic disease and health service use in the Welsh adult population

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are stressful events occurring in childhood such as being a victim of neglect and child abuse (physical, sexual and/or emotional) or growing up in a household in...

Allegations of abuse against teachers and non-teaching staff

This report presents the findings from the research into the scale and nature of allegations of abuse made against school teachers and non‐teaching school staff and the processes for handling these...

After Francis: making a difference

In this report the Committee gives its view on the principal recommendations of the report of the public inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust undertaken by Robert Francis QC. The...

An Inclusive and Families Strengths Based Approach in Child Protection

Presentation from the IFSW European Conference in Edinburgh 7th - 9th September 2015

An overview of child protection legislation in England

This note gives an overview of developments in child protection legislation in England and also information on recent policy developments.This information is provided to Members of Parliament in...

A ten year struggle

Following a hearing in February where Victoria Climbié’s social worker Lisa Arthurworrey finally won her right to register as a social worker, Liz Davies, who represented and supported her during...

Action on Neglect – a resource pack

This resource pack was produced by a small team from the University of Stirling and Action for Children and the University of Dundee and draws on a year long process of knowledge exchange with three...

A twin track to trouble

Steve Rogowski offers a critical view from the social work frontline of rapidly emerging policy developments in and around child protection and safeguarding work, as well as the government’s...

Abuse during childhood: Findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, year ending March 2016

The 2015 to 2016 Crime Survey for England and Wales ran for the first time a module of questions asking adults whether they were abused as a child. The analysis of these questions covering...

Adult safeguarding and domestic abuse – a guide to support practitioners and managers

A considerable proportion of safeguarding adults work relates to the abuse or neglect of people with care and support needs who are living in their own homes. Domestic abuse is perhaps most commonly...

A serious case for change

David Barnes considers the findings, both useful and less so, of the second Serious Case Review into the death of Baby Peter in Haringey and considers how best social work can take the lessons from...

Adolescent neglect: Briefing for professionals

It is rarely acknowledged that, just like younger children, adolescents are more likely to experience neglect at home than any other form of child maltreatment. There is evidence that professionals...

A serious case for review

A protracted back and forth dispute between journalists in Northern Ireland and the Health and Social Care Board about how much detail to divulge in Case Management Reviews has pitted freedom of...

Adult Safeguarding - not business as usual

Presentation from the Student and Newly Qualified Social Worker Conference on 23rd November 2015

A world of abuse where witchcraft is far more than fiction

Abuse linked to witchcraft or spiritual possession is on the rise and something social workers need increasingly to be able to recognise, as Shahid Naqvi finds out

A study of recommendations arising from serious case reviews 2009-2010

This small study presents a critical, thematic analysis of recommendations from 33 of the serious case reviews (cases of child death or serious injury through abuse or neglect) completed in 2009-2010.

Adult Safeguarding: The approach of the criminal justice system to investigating and prosecuting crimes against vulnerable adults

Adult safeguarding encompasses both activity which prevents harm from occurring in the first place and activity which protects adults at risk where harm has occurred or is likely to occur without...

ADCS Safeguarding Pressures Phase 5 – Main Report

Every child deserves a happy, safe childhood. Whilst most children grow up and thrive for some, the services we provide are essential to promoting their welfare and keeping them safe from harm...

A Study to Investigate the Barriers to Learning from Serious Case Reviews and Identify ways of Overcoming these Barriers

Kingston University’s Institute for Child-Centred Interprofessional Practice (ICCIP) was awarded a contract from the Department for Education (DfE) to undertake a small study investigating barriers...

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