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This far and no further: towards ending the abuse of disabled children
- Authors:
- WESTCOTT Helen, CROSS Merry
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 171p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Challenges existing preconceptions about the vulnerability of disabled children and considers what can be changed to decrease the risk of their abuse. Includes sections on: the social setting; disability, abuse and child protection; dependency and independence; institutional abuse of disabled children; communication issues; the professional response; and moving towards change.
The Memorandum of Good Practice and children with disabilities
- Author:
- WESTCOTT Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Law and Practice, 3(2), January 1994, pp.21-32.
- Publisher:
- PEPAR Publications
Considers the 1992 Home Office Memorandum of Good Practice on investigative interviews with children who have disabilities, identifying concerns and shortcomings and contradictions within the guidance. Argues that the Memorandum has a limited role for interviewing children with disabilities and that much greater flexibility in investigative interviewing is required to meet their special needs.
Perspectives on the Memorandum: policy, practice and research in investigative interviewing
- Editors:
- WESTCOTT Helen, JONES Jocelyn
- Publisher:
- Arena
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 204p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
A comprehensive evaluation of how the Memorandum of good practice on video recorded interviews with child witnesses is working. Includes papers on: an overview of the implementation of the Memorandum; a social services perspective; a police view; the Memorandum and the guardian ad litem; children's perspectives on investigative interviews; disabled children and the Memorandum; black children and the memorandum; an international perspective; the investigation of organised abuse; preparing children for court; and dilemmas and opportunities in training around the Memorandum.