Probation staff and youth offending teams needed to tighten up their child protection procedures and join up better with other agencies, said Paul McDowell, Chief Inspector of Probation. His comments
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Abstract: For most looked after children and young people, foster and residential care provides a safe environment. This study has focused on the minority of children who do not always
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The Department for Education’s proposal that for-profit companies could provide child protection services and other statutory functions for families caused a major public uproar this spring – and the furore
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This is the first time that CHS has commissioned such research and follows a joint survey carried out with the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration in 2012/13, where CHS asked those
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Scotland Yard’s child safeguarding was left with dozens of jobs unfilled despite a surge in claims of child abuse, a report has found. The number of alleged child rapes and
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Abstract: Issues concerning the sexual exploitation of children and young people remain the subject of considerable political, media, public and professional concern. This special issue begins with Jenny Pearce’s paper
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A legal challenge to Government plans to appoint a named guardian for every child in Scotland has been formally lodged in court. MSPs approved legislation earlier this year which will
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More than 8,000 under-18s were accused of sexual offences against other children in the last two years, according to figures obtained by the NSPCC. The children’s charity contacted 42 police
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The Children’s Commissioner is launching a two-year national inquiry into child sexual abuse within the family environment including forced marriages. Maggie Atkinson (pictured), the Children’s Commissioner for England, said: “Society
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A former youth worker with Pembrokeshire County Council has been jailed for six years after he admitted child sex offences. Michael John Smith, aged 49, was a line manager with
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