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What works in preventing and treating poor mental health in looked after children?

Looked after children and young people have consistently been found to have much higher rates of mental health difficulties than the general population, with almost half of them (three quarters of...

A parents’ guide to being Share Aware

We know some parents feel confused by the internet. It’s constantly changing, and it can be hard to keep up with the latest apps and trends. It can be particularly tricky for parents of children aged...
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Scotland Committee Minutes 7th November 2018

Children's mental health beyond the Green Paper: the role of practice based evidence

The recommendations as listed below have already been shown to work in practice across a range of real life conditions. Implementation time scales will vary between one and four years and the...

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The joint strategic inspection of services for children and young people

This report is a comprehensive review of the effectiveness of the delivery of services by community planning partnerships (CPPs) in Scotland to meet the needs of children and young people, including...

Reducing Restrictive Intervention of Children and Young People

This work was undertaken due to significant concerns about harmful restrictive intervention of the disabled children and young people whose families we support. The report shares data collected by...

Children and parents: Media use and attitudes report 2018

This report (and the accompanying annexes) examines children’s media literacy. Ofcom’s definition of media literacy is the ability to use, understand and create media and communications in a variety...

Impact of social media and screen-use on young people’s health: Fourteenth Report of Session 2017–19

Social media and screens have become ubiquitous in the lives of children. Figures produced by Ofcom indicated that 70% of 12–15 year olds have a profile on social media, while the OECD reported in...

In the Eye of the Storm: Britain's Forgotten Children and Families

The recession and the resulting austerity is the issue that most defines our times. Yet its impact on the most vulnerable children is too rarely considered – children who, by definition, cannot...

The role of the social worker in adoption – ethics and human rights: An Enquiry

In 2016, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) commissioned an Enquiry into the role of the social worker in adoption with a focus on ethics and human rights in order to: Provide BASW with...

Time for action on perinatal mental health care in Northern Ireland

Authors: Caroline Cunningham and Susan Galloway with Mary Duggan and Shona Hamilton This report sets out the findings of a study exploring health visitors’ and midwives’ roles and experiences of...

Hear no evil, see no evil: Understanding failure to identify and report child sexual abuse in institutional contexts

The failure to protect children from sexual abuse not only arouses shock and anger but also puzzlement: how could people who are employed to care for children fail to protect them when, with...

Guiding Principles for Social Workers Working with Others to Identify and Protect Children From all Forms of Sexual Abuse

This policy statement has been developed in response to growing public and political concern about the sexual abuse and trafficking of children and young people. This has arisen from publicity about...

Guardianship systems for children deprived of parental care in the European Union

Children who are deprived of parental care and are unaccompanied or separated from their primary caregiver are particularly vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. They are entitled to special...

From Boys to Men: Phase One Key Findings

The From Boys to Men Project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council to explore why some boys become domestic abuse perpetrators when others do not. In so doing, it sought to establish...

From boys to men: overview and recommendations

The From Boys to Men Project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council to explore why some boys become domestic abuse perpetrators when others do not. In so doing, it sought to establish...

From Boys to Men: Phase Three Key Findings

This report presents the findings of the third phase of the From Boys to Men study. The aim of this phase of the research was to understand the experiences of young men affected by domestic abuse. We...

Friends, Families and Travellers: A guide for professionals working with Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in Children’s Services

In a recent analysis of the population of ‘looked after’ children and young people in England, Dan Allen estimated that Gypsy and Traveller children were three times more likely to be taken into care...

Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences, 2011/12

Key Points: Violent and sexual crime covers a range of offence types. For example, violence spans minor assaults, such as pushing and shoving that result in no physical harm through to serious...

Formal Response to Serious Case Review Keanu Williams

The Birmingham Safeguarding Children Board (BSCB) received the Independent Serious Case Review into the death of Keanu Williams on Friday 20th September 2013. It was received with profound sadness...

Government interventions: the use of Commissioners in Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Removing control of a local authority from democratically-elected representatives is a serious matter. But in both Rotherham and Tower Hamlets the Department for Communities and Local Government (...

Framework and evaluation schedule for the inspection of services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers

This document sets out the framework for the inspection of services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers. These inspections are conducted under section...

Fatally flawed: Has the state learned lessons from the deaths of children and young people in prison?

The inquests and investigations into the deaths of children and young people in prison between 2003 and 2010 reveal that they were often very vulnerable and that none received the level of support...

Feeling safe, keeping safe: Good practice in safeguarding and child protection in secondary schools

The research reported here was commissioned by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner (OCC) to address the urgent need to support schools in developing good practice in their safeguarding role and...

Female genital mutilation: abuse unchecked

The Home Affairs Committee has published a report about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Recommendations include: the Government should introduce stronger sanctions for professionals who fail to...

Female Genital Mutilation in England and Wales: Updated statistical estimates of the numbers of affected women living in England and Wales and girls at risk

This report contains provisional estimates of the numbers of women with female genital mutilation (FGM) living in England and Wales, the numbers of women with FGM giving birth and the numbers of...

Female Genital Mutilation

This guide has been developed as a youth friendly FGM resource for use in youth settings, including schools. It targets young people between 12 and 18 years old and forms part of FORWARD’s schools...

Female genital mutilation – care and prevention

NHS England’s FGM Prevention Programme has launched a website, bringing together in one place the work of NHS England on female genital mutilation (FGM). The website includes information about:...

Female genital mutilation: resource pack

This resource was developed in response to requests for clearer direction from central government about the safeguarding responsibilities of local authorities.It is designed to highlight examples...

Family Hubs: A discussion paper

At any one time there are about 390,000 children in need and about 780,000 children are in need at some point during the course of a year. These are children who are on social services' radar and who...

Female Genital Mutilation and the Law

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is sometimes called ‘female circumcision’ or ‘cut’. The practice has different names in different languages, see Other names for female genital mutilation below. FGM...

Feeling the Effects

In this report we consider the impact of parental alcohol misuse on families, in particular, its impact on a parent’s ability to parent and a child’s likelihood of drinking excessively as a teenager...

Female Genital Mutilation: Screening toolkit

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) describes the cutting, pricking, evisceration, elongating or any way of mutilating the genitals of women and girls. FGM is specifically seen as a means of controlling...

Family Safeguarding Hertfordshire: Evaluation Report

Family Safeguarding Hertfordshire (FSH) is a whole-system reform of Children’s Services which aims to improve the quality of work undertaken with families, and thereby outcomes for children and...

Female Genital Mutilation Risk and Safeguarding: Guidance for professionals

FGM is not an issue that can be decided on by personal preference – it is an illegal, extremely harmful practice and a form of child abuse and violence against women and girls. Each NHS organisation...

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A statistical overview and exploration of the dynamics of change

The adoption by consensus of the United Nations General Assembly resolution Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations in December 2012 is a testimony to the...

Families and screen time: Current advice and emerging research

In the past decade, the amount of time that British children spend online has more than doubled: in 2005, 8 to 15 year olds went online 6.2 hours per week; in 2015, the average was 15 hours. How, and...

Families and Communities Against Child Sexual Exploitation (FCASE): Final Evaluation Report

This is the final evaluation report for the Barnardo’s Families and Communities Against Sexual Exploitation project (FCASE), produced by the International Centre, researching Child Sexual...

Evidence-based models of policing to protect children from sexual exploitation

This research, carried out between 2015 and 2017 was undertaken by a team at the International Centre: Researching child sexual exploitation, trafficking and violence at the University of...

Faith and Domestic Abuse: Recommendations for Faith Leaders

Domestic abuse is part of our society and one of the most unattractive parts. It’s not necessarily the easiest conversation topic, or something that we would like to read about – however, it is a...

Exploring the relationship between neglect and adult-perpetrated intrafamilial child sexual abuse: Evidence Scope 2

This scope aims to explore the relationship between neglect and intra-familial child sexual abuse (IFCSA). Current approaches to the study of child abuse and neglect increasingly highlight the...

European report on preventing child maltreatment

Reducing child maltreatment is a mainstay of the actions required to reduce inequity in Europe and achieve the goals of Health 2020. Child abuse and neglect are a product of social, cultural,...

Evaluation of Signs of Safety in 10 pilots

Signs of Safety (SoS) is a strengths-based approach to child protection casework that was developed in Western Australia in the 1990s but has since been adopted in other jurisdictions across North...

Evidence-based models of policing to protect children from sexual exploitation

This research, carried out between 2015 and 2017 was undertaken by a team at the International Centre: Researching child sexual exploitation, trafficking and violence at the University of...

Everyone’s Business: Scrutiny Review of Multi-Agency Working Against Child Sexual Exploitation

Child Sexual Exploitation is certainly not a new phenomenon. Over recent years, however, there has been a significant shift in the level of professional understanding of this so called ‘hidden’ crime...

Exploring the relationship between neglect and child sexual exploitation: Evidence Scope 1

Although any young person could become a victim of sexual exploitation, some young people may be more vulnerable to the risk of CSE in part as a result of their current or earlier adverse life...

Enemy of the State?

There are some who claim working with families is being turned into more of a policing of parents role. Shahid Naqvi looks at the issues. Have parents become the enemy in child protection? As the...

Ending violence against children in custody

Children in custody, like all children, have the right to be free from all forms of violence. This report presents the findings of research carried out with children and young people with experience...

Ending legalised violence against children: Global Report 2013

Achieving law reform to prohibit corporal punishment of children marks a turning point in a state’s relationship with its youngest citizens. It signals a recognition of children as human beings,...

Engaging with men in social care: a good practice guide

This 16 page guide offers strategies for engaging with men in, or attached to, families in which a child is at risk or may become so. It has been developed from a two-year project (2011-2013) in the...

Enemy of the state?

There are some who claim working with families is being turned into more of a policing of parents role. Shahid Naqvi looks at the issues

Everyone’s business: Improving the police response to domestic abuse

The extent and nature of domestic abuse remains shocking. A core part of the policing mission is to prevent crime and disorder. Domestic abuse causes both serious harm and constitutes a considerable...

Exploring the Scale and Nature of Child Sexual Exploitation in Scotland

This study was undertaken between January 2012 and June 2012. The study had three aims: to review existing research, policy and practice literature from the UK regarding the scale and nature of child...

Exploring the policy to practice gap: Social workers’ experience of embedding child protection policy into their practice

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

Evaluating the Health Implications of Child Sexual Exploitation on Parents

This report was commissioned by Parents against child sexual exploitation (Pace) to explore any health impact of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) on wider family members. The project was designed in...

Code of Human Research Ethics

This Code sets out a set of general principles that are applicable to all research contexts and are intended to cover all research with human participants. Principles of conduct for psychologists in...

Evaluation of Growing Futures

Growing Futures was established in Doncaster to improve the outcomes of families, and particularly children and young people (CYP), who have experienced Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA), by...

Examining Multi-Agency Responses to Children and Young People who sexually offend

This inspection focuses on the small but significant group of children and young people who commit sexual offences. These children and young people form a very small proportion of the overall cohort...

Early Intervention in Domestic Violence & Abuse: Summary and Recommendations

The Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) has been established to tackle the root causes of problems for children and young people, rather than waiting to address symptoms once problems are embedded...

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