Research funded by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has found that restraining someone by holding them forward in a seated position increases the risk of harm or death.

WHEN Tracey Connelly and her boyfriend Steven Barker were convicted in 2008 of killing her infant son – known to the world as Baby P – social services in Enfield were faced with a massive surge in calls about children suspected of being at risk of abuse.

The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has responded to a Justice Committee report out today that states ‘probation staff now spend 75% of their time on form filling and responding to centrally driven emails’, by revealing that 95% of social workers spend too much time on paperwork and not enough time supporting people that rely on social work services.

An investigation has been launched after allegations of abuse have recently come to light at a young people’s home in Tyneside.
 

A ‘BEASTLY and abhorrent’ couple inflicted a catalogue of injuries to their baby and tried to cover it up by swapping her indentity with her twin.