Child Protection
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SCR: Professionals lost sight of children
An SCR has criticised the professionals involved in a case where a three-month-old baby died in Doncaster for focusing too much on the mother. The you...
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Child protection enquiries rise again
Department for Education statistics have shown a year-on-year rise in the number of child protection cases, with the number of children subject to sec...
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Increase in children in need of help or protection
The National Audit Office has published a report looking at progress in improving the system to help and protect children. It found that the demand fo...
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Call to bring young Calais refugees under British safeguarding rules
Labour MP Stella Creasy has called for the child welfare bill to be amended to give young refugees in Calais protection under British safeguarding rul...
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Information sharing to protect vulnerable children
A report from the Department for Education and the Centre of Excellence for Information Sharing shares findings and presents recommendations on how to...
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Study of eight year olds at risk of harm
The Department for Education has published results of a study carried out on a sample of eight-year-old children for whom there had been concerns of a...
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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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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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