March 2016

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Schools and local authorities failing young carers

Results in The Children’s Society’s recent report, There’s nobody is there - no one who can actually help?, has found that schools and...
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Serious case review highlights need for multi-agency approach to ‘toxic trio’

Bracknell Forest Local Safeguarding Children Board's recent serious case review examined a case where a two-month-old baby, known as Child C, had its ...
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Five child sex offences reported to the police every hour

Recently collected figures from the NSPCC show that the number of child sex offences reported to police throughout the UK rose to a record 45,456 last...
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Children’s mental health damaged by parental conflict

Unresolved parental conflict has been proved to have an affect children’s long-term mental health and life chances in a study by the Early Interve...
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NCVYS to merge with Ambition

National independent body National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) is to merge with Ambition, a youth charity that strengthens community ...
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Whistleblowing advice line for professionals launched

Anyone concerned about how workplace child protection issues are being handled can now call a new advice line which has been launched by the NSPCC. Th...
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Lack of reflective supervision and information sharing highlighted in serious case review

Events surrounding the death of Baby V have been examined in a serious case review by an unidentified local safeguarding children board, who was foun...
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Children at risk due to “unacceptable inconsistencies” across police forces

Results from a review by The HM Inspectorate of Constabulary on how police respond to missing and absent children has been published in a report. It f...
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Safe Network service closing

Launched in 2009, Safe Network is a partnership between Children England and the NSPCC. From April 2016 Safe Network will be closing and the NSPCC web...