July 2016
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SCR: murder couldn’t have been foreseen
This serious case review into the death of a 14-year-old boy from Carlisle has concluded that his murder couldn’t have been foreseen by authorities...
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5,702 new cases of FGM in 2015/16
Figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre have revealed that there were 5,702 new cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in England...
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CQC find health services fail to protect children
The Care Quality Commission has said there are serious shortcomings in the ability of local areas to identify those at risk of harm in a review of how...
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Vulnerable children inadvertently ‘re-retraumatised’
Report by mental health charity YoungMinds has claimed that schools, social workers, police and NHS staff may be inadvertently re-traumatising vulnera...
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e-learning for healthcare staff to protect children from sexual exploitation
Children’s Society and the Department of Health have launched an e-learning package to help staff in healthcare settings spot signs of child sexual ...
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NSPCC voices child safety concerns over Pokémon GO
NSPCC has said the app Pokémon Go shouldn’t have been released in the UK because it is susceptible to being hijacked by users who wish to harm othe...
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Analysis of SCRs highlights need for learning and improvement
This analysis of serious case reviews from 2011 to 2014 by the Department for Education has recommended moving away from analysing whether serious ha...
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Prevent strategy ‘not fit for purpose’ according to think-tank
Report by think-tank Rights Watch (UK) on the impact of the Prevent duty – a policy which seeks to identify those at risk of becoming terrorists –...
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