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Child Protection Review - report of consultation exercise
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Public understanding, expectations and views about child protection in Scotland
- Author:
- MORI SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Annual reports of area child protection committees 1995/6
- Author:
- ARMSTRONG Helen
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report highlighting areas of key importance in the annual reports of area child protection committees for 1995 to 1996, focusing in particular on the response to the publication of 'Child protection: messages from research'.
Is childhood obesity a child protection concern?
- Authors:
- NELSON Peter, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 51(8), 2021, pp.2944-2963.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Childhood obesity is a key public health concern. Obesity has an impact on morbidity and mortality, child development, and has links to child sexual abuse. The costs of childhood obesity on the health service and society are well recognised. Whether childhood obesity should also be a child protection concern has divided commentators and professionals. They pose a juxtaposition questioning whether childhood obesity is a consequence of neglect and obese children should potentially be removed from parents who do not seek to reduce their child’s weight, whilst expressing resistance to a role focused on bodily surveillance. This research sought to identify existing practice, through interviews (N23) and focus groups (N3:24) with key professional stakeholders, from social care, health and education, in one area in the UK. The research aimed to explore the decision-making, views and experiences of those working with obesity and the child protection system. The data were subject to Framework Analysis. Key findings include multi-agency working, personal and professional standpoint, and the complex and nuanced impact of individual and agency thresholds on practice. The research demonstrates how the tensions surrounding a child protection paradigm impact on individual and agency practice, potentially inhibiting the support offered to service users. (Edited publisher abstract)
A systematic review of children’s participation in child protection decision‐making: tokenistic presence or not?
- Author:
- TOROS Karmen
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 35(3), 2021, pp.395-411.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article examines children's views on and experiences with participation in the child protection system's decision‐making process. The systematic review follows the PRISMA statement and includes 12 peer‐reviewed articles published in academic journals from 2006 to 2017. Findings suggest that children's contact with their worker was limited or non‐existent, which minimised opportunities to express views regarding their situation; child–worker contacts lacked dialogue, information about the process of intervention and trusting relationships, meaning that without a voice, children were not engaged in making decisions. Although data are limited, they suggest little or no dialogue with children by child protection workers. Furthermore, children voiced their experiences of not being informed of or understanding the process or decisions made about their lives. (Edited publisher abstract)
Child trafficking in the UK 2020: a snapshot
- Author:
- ECPAT UK
- Publisher:
- ECPAT UK
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 45
- Place of publication:
- London
This snapshot report provides an overview of trafficking and modern slavery affecting children in the UK, compiling the latest statistics and recent policy developments. It highlights progress made as well as concerns for children at risk of and affected by trafficking. As the number of reported cases of child trafficking continues to rise dramatically, there has been increased awareness and understanding of the different forms of exploitation, most notably in the area of child criminal exploitation. However, what we know of outcomes for child victims remains poor: they continue to go missing from care, face a hostile immigration environment and are regularly criminalised for crimes committed as a result of their exploitation. With governments in each part of the UK continuing to commit to focus on the issue, there have been improvements to the systems designed to identify and protect victims. However, significant commitments remain unmet; most significantly, the Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship (ICTG) scheme in England and Wales has yet to be fully rolled out, 5 years after it was introduced under the Modern Slavery Act 2015. As a global pandemic continues to unfold, existing structural inequalities affecting children set to worsen, with Black, Asian and minority ethnic young people – including unaccompanied and looked after children – disproportionately impacted. Policies that have reduced funding to children’s services in recent years have resulted in local authorities underequipped to meet children’s needs, and a hostile immigration environment continues to prevent children from accessing the services and security they need. The report argues that it is vital that a child safeguarding approach to tackling child trafficking is prioritised, so that children can be properly protected against exploitation before it happens, and that barriers to recovery are removed for those who have faced this terrible form of child abuse. (Edited publisher abstract)
Crossover children: examining initial criminal justice system contact among child protection-involved youth
- Author:
- BAIDAWI Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 73(3), 2020, pp.280-295.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Child protection-involved youth face increased risk of criminal justice system contact. Such “crossover children” experience earlier police involvement and more serious criminal justice sanctions, yet little is known about their early offending. Using a cross-sectional sample of 300 crossover children before three Victorian Children's Courts in 2016–17, this mixed-methods study examines the nature and context of children's initial police charges. Findings indicate that crossover children are initially charged with disproportionately violent offending, and often incur first police charges around the time of initial care placement. For many, initial criminal justice contact occurred in the context of conflict with caregivers, ongoing maltreatment, and household adversity, or emotional and behavioural regulation challenges. Efforts towards preventing offending for child-protection-involved youth should focus on preventing childhood maltreatment, alongside targeting parent–child relationship challenges, and strengthening community and care system responses that address the impacts of complex trauma, mental health problems, and neurodisability. (Edited publisher abstract)
The Norwegian child protection services in stormy weather
- Author:
- HENNUM Nicole
- Journal article citation:
- Critical and Radical Social Work, 5(3), 2017, pp.319-334.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
By examining children as symbols within a Norwegian context and, further, as icons in a larger Western context, the article shows how these ways of understanding children give the Norwegian child protection system both its strength and its potential to misuse power. It is clear that, today, there exist in Norway children whose experiences contravene hegemonic understandings of children. Many of these children encounter child protection professionals who seek to provide them with childhoods in keeping with the Norwegian consensus about how children should be and how childhood should be lived. The situations of such children are often interpreted with reference to two universal images: one involving the discourse of children's rights; and the other involving the discourse of psychosocial rehabilitation. These images need to be changed in order to fit the realities of children's own subjectivity, opportunities and material conditions of life. (Publisher abstract)
10 years on: global progress and delay in ending violence against children - the rhetoric and the reality
- Author:
- INTERNATIONAL NGO COUNCIL ON VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
- Publisher:
- International NGO Council on Violence Against Children
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 43
- Place of publication:
- London
This report tracks ten years of change and progress since the first UN Study on Violence Against Children was published in 2006. It suggests that ten years on, we know more about violence affecting children around the world than ever before. Gaps in the available information endure as many forms of violence remain hidden, but improved information and greater understanding were among the most successful outcomes of the Study. Yet despite this improvement, the violence children experience persists on a massive scale in all settings. Recognising that legal prohibition is necessary to end violence against children, the second recommendation of the Violence Study was to prohibit all violence against children. Globally there has been progress towards this target, but it remains unfulfilled. Around the world some of the worst forms of violence remain lawful: children can still be sentenced to death, subjected to violence at the hands of their parents and forced into marriages while they are much too young to make that commitment themselves. The report suggests that the core message of the original UN study remains relevant: no violence against children is justifiable, all violence against children is preventable. (Edited publisher abstract)
An independent review of the role and functions of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales
- Author:
- SHOOTER Mike
- Publisher:
- Welsh Government
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 51
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
An examination of the Children’s Commissioner’s office, looking at its role and functions, its independence, impact, legislative background, governance, accountability, accessibility and value for money. The report reflects a comprehensive call for evidence that included an on-line survey, a questionnaire, workshops, commissioned searches and many face-to-face interviews across Wales, the UK and further afield. The views of children and young people themselves were central throughout. The position of Children's Commissioner for Wales was created in 2001 to safeguard and promote the rights and welfare of children and young people in Wales. The report offers a series of recommendations for the Welsh Government, the National Assembly for Wales and the Children's Commissioner for Wales aimed at strengthening the Commissioner’s role. (Edited publisher abstract)