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Clinical Judgement and Decision-Making in Children’s Social Work: An analysis of the ‘front door’ system

This paper is not a comprehensive review of all aspects of social workers’ decisions, but rather focuses on the entry point for children coming in to contact with the Child Protection System, usually...

Children first: the child protection system in England

The child protection system in England has been subject to much scrutiny in recent years. The Munro report is a major step forward, and there have been significant and very positive developments and...

Children in need of help or protection: Summary

1 The law defines children in need as children who are aged under 18 and need local authority services: to achieve or maintain a reasonable standard of health or development; to prevent significant...

Children’s public health transfer

There is overwhelming evidence that tells us that the first few years in children’s lives shape their future development, and influence how well children do at school, their ongoing health and...

Children's voices: research report

1.1 As part of their child protection inspection programme, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabularies (HMIC) commissioned ‘The International Centre: Researching child sexual exploitation, violence...

Children’s experiences of child protection procedures

In 2012, Professor Munro asked us to help her again, this time to consult children who had recently had experience of being involved in the child protection system in some of the local authorities...

Child sexual exploitation perpetrators research programme briefing

This briefing reflects on the learning from a series of five scoping studies commissioned by the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (the Centre) concerning perpetrators of child sexual...

Child Sexual Exploitation: A study of international comparisons

The issue of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) has been the focus of intense discussion, debate and intervention in the UK in recent years. At a summit in March 2015, the Prime Minister described CSE...

Child sexual expoitation prevention education

With their ability to reach the largest number of children and young people, schools have the potential to play an invaluable role in preventative education (Beckett et al 2013; The Education and...

Child sexual exploitation: How public health can support prevention and intervention

Our understanding of child sexual exploitation (CSE) is increasing. Case studies, locality reviews, and research are deepening our knowledge. Crucially, we are learning from young people themselves...

Child sexual exploitation: How public health can support prevention and intervention – literature search

Child sexual abuse (CSA) and the sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) are a major public health issue, because of the long-term physical, sexual, and mental health effects. Prevention programmes...

Child sexual exploitation: improving recognition and response in health settings

This valuable guidance arose from a meeting between the Department of Health, representatives from the Medical Royal Colleges, the NHS and the third sector to discuss the important role that health...

Child sexual exploitation: improving recognition and response in health settings

Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is a form of child sexual abuse. Children and young people affected by sexual exploitation can present with a range of physical and/or emotional problems to a wide...

Child Sexual Exploitation: A Guide for Health Practitioners

Child sexual exploitation is child abuse and like any form of abuse can have a devastating impact on victims and their families. It is vital that we are able to identify a child or young person at...

Child sexual exploitation: Advice for Healthcare Staff

A pocket guide to provide practical information to healthcare staff to safeguard children and young people

Children and young people’s views on child protection systems in Scotland

This review considers the views and experiences of children and young people on child protection systems in Scotland. It aims to inform service delivery, communications on child protection and future...

Child sexual exploitation: Definition and a guide for practitioners, local leaders and decision makers working to protect children from child sexual exploitation

Child sexual exploitation is a crime with devastating and long lasting consequences for its victims and their families. Childhoods and family life can be ruined and this is compounded when victims,...

Child sexual exploitation: support in children’s residential homes

While child sexual exploitation (CSE) has attracted considerable attention in recent years and has highlighted how residential children’s homes can be targeted by CSE perpetrators, little is known...

Child Sexual Exploitation: Background and Current Guidance

Presentation by Sue Phillips

Child Sexual Exploitation - A Practice Perspective

Presentation by Sue Phillips on child sexual exploitation

Child Sexual Exploitation Definition and Practitioner Briefing Paper

This paper outlines the new national definition of child sexual exploitation (CSE) for Scotland and some key contextual considerations that should inform all professionals’ and agencies’...

Child neglect in 2011 Summary of recommendations for the UK government

This report sets out the findings of our 2011 review of child neglect. Our comprehensive review is the first of a series to gauge the current situation for neglected children across the UK and...

Child protection – a review of the literature on current systems and practice

This research paper was produced as part of a wider project on improving the effectiveness of the child protection system, commissioned by the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) in collaboration...

Child Safety Online: A Practical Guide for Providers of Social Media and Interactive Services

A childhood with the internet is still a relatively new experience. Few households were online even 20 years ago. The immediacy and reach of social media has opened up all kinds of positive...

Child sexual abuse in custodial institutions: A rapid evidence assessment

Child sexual abuse (CSA) involves forcing or enticing a child or young person under the age of 18 to take part in sexual activities. It includes contact and non-contact abuse, child sexual...

Child Protection Evidence: Systematic review on Early Years Neglect

Neglect has varying definitions across agencies and countries. However, evidence clearly shows that neglect of infants and young children has far-reaching consequences. For the purposes of this...

Child sexual exploitation and mental health

This report presents an overview of eight projects in the Innovation Programme that focused specifically on groups of young people who were experiencing or at risk of experiencing child sexual...

Child Protection Improvement Programme

On 25th February 2016, the then Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Angela Constance MSP, announced in Parliament that the Scottish Government would be undertaking a Child...

Child Sexual Exploitation in Northern Ireland

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) reminds us that every child should be able to grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding...

Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation: Understanding risk and vulnerability

In order to provide policy makers and practioners with an assessment of the best evidence for identifying and appraising risk indicators for child sexual abuse (CSA) and child sexual exploitation (...

Voices of Social Work through The Troubles

The culmination of a two-year study organised by the British Association of Social Workers Northern Ireland and conducted by an international team of academics, Voices of Social Work Through The...

Child Protection All Party Parliamentary Group: Seminar series on child sexual abuse

The Child Protection APPG launched the seminar series on child sexual abuse in autumn 2013. We held three seminars, focusing on issues that had received less attention in recent years. These were:...

Child Sexual Abuse and the Holy See

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is seeking detailed information on sexual violence against children by Catholic clergy around the world, its cover up within the Church and the denial of...

Child sexual exploitation and the response to localised grooming: follow-up

• In June 2013, the Committee published a report on localised child grooming, highlighting the appalling cost paid by victims for past catastrophic multi-agency failures. • An independent...

Child neglect in 2011

Child neglect is the most pervasive form of child abuse in the UK today. It robs children of the childhood they deserve and leaves broken families, dashed aspirations and misery in its wake. Too many...

Child protection: Thirty-first Report of Session 2016–17

Children in need of help or support are, by definition, among the most vulnerable members of our society, often facing neglect or abuse. But, for far too long, services for the nearly 800,000...

Child Neglect: The scandal that never breaks

A child experiences neglect when the adults who look after them fail to meet their needs. Neglect can take many forms. It could be a parent allowing their child to suffer serious harm on a one-off...

Case management and outcomes for neglected children returned to their parents: a five year follow up study

Given that cases of neglect often need long-term interventions, the aim of this study was to help to fill gaps in our knowledge about how children are assessed and managed over time when there are...

Child Death Review Programme Annual Report

The death of every child is a tragedy. The impact of the loss of a child is a heavy burden on families, carers and friends with life-changing effects on those who are bereaved. Typically, four...

Characteristics and vulnerabilities of victims of online-facilitated child sexual abuse and exploitation

This report considers the evidence about children’s characteristics, vulnerabilities and resilience to online-facilitated child sexual abuse (CSA). Online-facilitated CSA refers to the process of...

Child Neglect

Action for Children investigated the extent of child neglect in the UK, its impact on the most vulnerable children and families and the role of the professionals who are in a position to spot the...

Child Death Reviews: Scottish Government Steering Group Report

One Thousand One Hundred And Nine (1,109) deaths of people, aged 0–18 years, were registered in Scotland, in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013. The end of life does not mean the end of care. Scotland has...

Child Migration Programmes

Over a period of many years before and after the Second World War, successive United Kingdom governments allowed children to be removed from their families, care homes and foster care in England and...

Characteristics and perspectives of adults who have sexually exploited children: Scoping research

There is a lack of information about individuals who perpetrate child sexual exploitation (CSE) offences. This report describes one of three research projects commissioned by the Centre of expertise...

Characteristics and motivations of perpetrators of child sexual exploitation: A rapid evidence assessment of research

There is a lack of information about individuals who perpetrate child sexual exploitation (CSE) offences. This report describes one of three research projects to build an evidence base about this...

Child death reviews: improving the use of evidence

The concept of child death reviews is not a new one; systems for review have been set in place in a number of countries including in the US where reviews were established in some States in the late...

Child neglect and its relationship to other forms of harm - responding effectively to children’s needs: Executive summary

This summary draws together the key messages, themes and implications for practice and policy emerging from a series of three linked evidence scopes commissioned by Action for Children and the...

Child Helpline International: Briefing Paper on Bullying

While discourse on bullying is predominantly focused on developed countries or those that are high or very high on the Human Development Index, the fact is it occurs everywhere, in every country on...

Characteristics of children in need: 2014 to 2015

This statistical first release (SFR) provides numbers of referrals and assessments by children’s social care in England. It releases the number of children assessed to be in need of social care...

Caught in a Trap: The Impact of Grooming in 2012

This report provides an insight in the contacts that Childline has had from young people who have been sexually exploited through grooming in both online and face-to-face situations.

Can I tell you something? What’s affecting children in 2013

ChildLine helped support thousands of young people last year, sometimes quite literally saving lives and I am very proud of the work our staff and volunteers have done to listen, empower, support and...

Cambridge House, Knowl View and Rochdale Investigation Report

This investigation report concerns child sexual abuse in Rochdale, relating to Cambridge House, Knowl View School and the late Cyril Smith. We are primarily concerned with the institutional responses...

Canary in the Cage?

This brief report summarises the views of a number of professionals, involved in managing and overseeing local child protection arrangements, on the value of including a set of ‘lead indicators’...

Building Great Britons

The cost of failing to deal adequately with perinatal mental health and child maltreatment has been estimated at £23 billion each year. As our report shows the two are closely linked and more...

Building the right support

Children, young people and adults with a learning disability and/or autism have the right to the same opportunities as anyone else to live satisfying and valued lives, and to be treated with dignity...

Care services for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour

This report examines the challenge faced in delivering key commitments in the Winterbourne View Concordat, the extent to which these have been achieved, and the barriers to transforming care services...

Call to keep children safe from sexual abuse: A study of the use and effects of the Stop it Now! UK and Ireland Helpline

Child sexual abuse is recognised by policy makers and the general public as a significant threat to the safety and long-term wellbeing of children. Alongside revelations about ‘historical’ abuse,...

Care cases with an international element: New ICACU form for requests for co-operation under Brussels IIa and the 1996 Hague Child Protection Convention and guidance notes

The International Child Abduction and Contact Unit (‘ICACU’) discharges the day to day duties of the central authority in England and Wales for Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 (‘'Brussels IIa’)...

Care Versus Control: Healthy Relationships

With over half a million members, Girlguiding is the leading charity for girls and young women in the UK. We believe passionately that girls should be given a voice about issues that they care about...

Building on the learning from serious case reviews

Serious case reviews (SCRs) are local enquiries into the death or serious injury of a child where abuse or neglect are known or suspected. They are carried out under the auspices of Local...

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