Tougher rules to support missing children
Minister Edward Timpson announces new rules so every child who goes missing from home or care will have an independent return interview. Every child who goes missing from home or
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Tag: Child Protection
Children who run away or go missing from home or care
Statutory guidance setting out the steps LAs and their partners should take to stop children from going missing and to protect those who do. This statutory guidance is for:
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Child Abuse Review issue call for papers on safeguarding and domestic abuse
The Child Abuse Review journal have issued a Call for Papers for the Special Issue 2015 on Children’s Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse. Child Abuse Review is an interprofessional journal for
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Children’s rights, social justice and social identities in Scotland
A programme run by the Scottish Universities Insight Institute (SUII). The key objectives of this project are to: create meaningful knowledge exchange opportunities between children and young people, practitioners,
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The Red Book 2013: Children Under Pressure
Action for Children has launched new research showing thousands of children across the UK are struggling to cope with serious problems that no child should have to deal with. Poverty,
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Watchdog publishes two new reports on children’s services
Scotland’s independent social care watchdog, the Care Inspectorate, has published two new reports into services for children and young people in two local authority areas. The reports are the
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Social workers guilty of contempt over child visits
Two social workers have been found guilty of contempt of court after they defied a legal ruling to prevent a mother gaining greater access to her estranged children. The Edinburgh
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Concern as ‘trouble-shooter’ quits Northamptonshire child protection
The departure of a trouble-shooter brought in to overhaul Northamptonshire’s child protection services could delay improvements, it has been claimed. Kevin Crompton is to leave less than a year after
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MASH having a positive impact on child protection in London
The turnaround time for child protection cases judged as high or complex needs has almost halved in some areas since the London multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH) programme began in 2011,
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Safeguarding audit shows 870 complaints & ‘substantial’ abuse
An audit of how the Catholic order the Christian Brothers dealt with abuse allegations has found only 12 brothers were convicted of crimes between 1975 and today. A review of
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