The Department for Education (DfE) has published a report looking at how radicalisation is being addressed in children’s social care in England. Findings from research involving 11 local authority areas carried out between September 2020 and March 2021 include: there is evidence of increased understanding of radicalisation as a type of harm experienced by a young person which requires a safeguarding response; and children’s social care professionals are beginning to draw closer links between vulnerability to radicalisation and vulnerability to other forms of exploitation which might involve grooming. The report also looks at evidence of radicalisation, specific processes and responses by children’s social care, and social workers’ confidence, experience and understanding.
Read the report: Safeguarding and radicalisation: children’s social care learning
Source: Department for Education
Date: 24 June 2021
