Safeguarding

Inside a domestic violence call centre

A major charity working with victims of domestic abuse says calls to their 24-hour helpline increased by more than 50 per cent in the year of the pandemic. The lockdown means some women have felt trapped at...

February 26, 2021

Marginalised & Excluded Safeguarding

Covid has created legions of unpaid carers who urgently need support themselves

Last year, the health and social care select committee highlighted the social care system as “unfair, confusing, demeaning and frightening for the most vulnerable people in our society and their families”. But...

February 19, 2021

Safeguarding

‘He’s beaten her black and blue for years’: a month in the life of a women’s refuge manager

Over the past year, reports of domestic violence have risen enormously – while refuge places are scarce. One woman explains what it is like trying to help those who have fled for their lives. Read the full...

February 17, 2021

Category - Safeguarding

Looked After Children Safeguarding

One in Eight Children in Care Placed in Unregulated Settings

One in eight children in care has now spent time in unregulated supported accommodation including hostels, caravans and tents, new figures from the children’s commissioner for England reveal. In 2018/19, 12,800 spent some time accommodated in...

September 10, 2020

General News Safeguarding

Government ‘will miss 2030 target to halve childhood obesity’

There is a lack of evidence that schemes including the Soft Drinks Industry Levy and reducing calories in food will work to improve childhood obesity, a new report by the National Audit Office states. It also criticises ministers and Public Health...

September 9, 2020

News Safeguarding

NSPCC: Adolescents four times more at risk of physical abuse than younger children

Adolescents are four times more likely to be physically abused than younger children, NSPCC analysis of police-recorded offences reveals.
Read the full story on this link to Children & Young People Now

August 27, 2020

Safeguarding

Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation

The Department for Education (DfE), the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and the Home Office have published updated statutory guidance on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) for those with statutory duties to safeguard children and...

August 4, 2020

Safeguarding

SECURING A BRIGHTER FUTURE: The role of youth services in tackling knife crime

Knife crime has reached a record high. Offences involving a knife or sharp instrument rose by 7 per cent in the year to September 2019 to 44,771.1 This latest rise means that the number of incidents recorded by police has increased by almost half in...

July 30, 2020

Safeguarding

“People don’t talk about it”: Child sexual abuse in ethnic minority communities

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (‘the Inquiry’) has been tasked with considering the extent to which state and non-state institutions in England and Wales have failed in their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse and...

July 9, 2020

News Safeguarding

Sharp increase in UK child sexual abuse during pandemic

Lockdown was supposed to make us all safer and save lives. But for some vulnerable young people the opposite has been true. Sajid Javid, the former chancellor, warned last month that isolation was creating a “perfect storm” for child sexual abuse...

July 8, 2020

Marginalised & Excluded Safeguarding

Children’s commissioner warns 120,000 teenagers at risk of ‘falling off the radar’

Tens of thousands of England’s teenagers are at risk of “falling off the radar” of schools and local authority children’s services as the country eases out of lockdown, the children’s commissioner for England has warned. New analysis published by...

July 7, 2020

Safeguarding

Stereotyping by practitioners preventing disclosure of child sexual abuse in ethnic minority groups

Child sexual abuse inquiry finds people from ethnic minorities told abuse was part of their culture, practitioners not acting for fear of being seen as racist and ‘whiteness’ of institutions dissuading victims from disclosing. Cultural...

July 4, 2020

Marginalised & Excluded Safeguarding

Racism and child sexual abuse

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has published a report examining child sexual abuse in ethnic minority communities. IICSA carried out 11 focus groups across England and Wales with victims and survivors of child sexual abuse...

June 29, 2020

Category - Safeguarding

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