Today is the European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse Sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children are still a tragic reality for all our societies. They are serious violations of children’s rights, and can have long lasting and often detrimental consequences on a child’s entire life. The objectives of the … Continue reading End Child Sex Abuse Day: 18 November
ru-ok? is a Brighton based service that works alongside under 18s whose lives are affected by substance misuse in Brighton & Hove. The service offers free, confidential, expert advice and support. The service produces regular briefing notes for Brighton & Hove Children's Services and this latest one contains lots of helpful information that will be relevant to our … Continue reading Substance misuse
Second report of the national panel of independent experts Working Together to Safeguard Children 2013, the Government’s guide to inter- agency working published in March 2013, announced that a national panel of independent experts would be established ‘to support Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) in ensuring that appropriate action is taken to learn from serious … Continue reading Serious Case Reviews
Originally posted on Family Law on 4th November 2014. Dr Julia Brophy (with Kate Perry and Eleanor Harrison) has published the next stage in her research on children involved in the family courts, and their confidentiality. EXTRACT ‘A review of anonymised judgments on Bailii: Children, privacy and "jigsaw identification"’published by the Association of Lawyers for Children (ALC) … Continue reading ALC and NYAS publish report on children’s privacy
The government has launched a new online tool for schools across the country to give parents and carers the best possible advice and tips on preparing children for adult life. Children now grow up in a world where computer technology and life on the internet is the norm. With access at their fingertips, it can be even … Continue reading Preparing children for adult life
OCTOBER 30, 2015 BY 1 CROWN OFFICE ROW UK Human Rights Blog EXTRACT The Prevent and Channel Duties "In many public services: health, education, strong views are being exchanged about the aims and scope of these duties. In family law circles, there is a particular, indeed acute, concern that we are imposing responsibilities on social workers which they … Continue reading Radicalism & the Family Courts – Marina Wheeler
Fewer children’s social care referrals are passing ‘child in need’ thresholds Article by Luke Stevenson on October 22, 2015 in Community Care The proportion of children assessed as meeting ‘child in need’ thresholds by social services fell last year, government figures show. The Department for Education statistics show 23% of social services assessments in 2014-15 led to a decision that a child was ‘not in … Continue reading ‘Child in need’ stats fell last year – why?
A report by the Children's Commissioner for England has considered the safeguarding needs of young people in custody. Read the report of the Children's Commissioner here: Unlocking Potential Recommendations set out by the Children's Commissioner: Young people should only be placed in isolation as a last resort not very often not for a long time. Every time a young person is … Continue reading Unlocking Potential
New powers extend a measure introduced by the Prime Minister in July, following a successful trial, which enables parents to apply directly to HM Passport Office to have the passports of children under 16 years old cancelled to prevent them travelling to join terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq. Powers have already been applied via a series of … Continue reading Counter-Extremism Strategy
Research funded by the Department of Health 'What Happened Next' (2014) has examined decision-making for children in care proceedings and has found that: Decisions made in care proceedings can contribute to reducing the odds of poor developmental outcomes for 'maltreated' (sic) children. Substitute families and apparent changes in birth families were associated with improvements in the children’s relationships and adaptation. … Continue reading Care Proceedings: Outcomes for children
