Safeguarding: Reports

This page shows the latest 15 resources to be added to the Safeguarding reports section of the site. New resources are added as they are published.

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• All Babies Count: spotlight on perinatal mental health
  Spotlight on perinatal mental health looks at what is known about mental illnesses that women can experience during pregnancy and in the year after birth and what can be done to ensure better prevention, identification a ...
  
  Publisher: NSPCC
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Good practice resource. Children and young people who go missing and child sexual exploitation – a partnership approach: Staffordshire County Council (case study)
  A mature approach by the council, the police and independent providers combined with an innovative approach to sharing information promotes earlier identification of children and young people who are vulnerable to child ...
  
  Publisher: Ofsted
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Human rights of unaccompanied migrant children and young people in the UK: First Report of Session 2013–14 - Report, together with formal minutes
  Unaccompanied migrant children are those who arrive in the UK separated from their parents and other relatives, and who are not being cared for by an adult with the legal or customary responsibility for doing so. The Com ...
  
  Publisher: Joint Committee on Human Rights
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Community Care: What child protection can teach adult safeguarding - and vice versa
  One council's decision to import family group conferencing from children's to adults' services has led to a mutual exchange of knowledge between social workers from the two departments.
  
  Publisher: Community Care
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Rights, responsibilities and pragmatic practice: family participation in case reviews (Journal article)
  This article considers the experiences of families and professionals in case reviews where a child has died/suffered serious injury as a result or abuse or neglect.
  
  Publisher: Child Abuse Review
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Time to listen: independent advocacy within the child protection process
  This report sets out evidence to show that strengthening access to advocacy can significantly improve the experience and safeguarding of children within the child protection system. It also shows that the lack of a clear ...
  
  Publisher: National Children's Bureau (NCB)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Community Care: Foster care in a digital world: ‘Secret mobile phones and re-child-proofing the Kindle’
  A parent's reflections on the internet, mobile phones and communications technology in the context of fostering and child protection.
  
  Publisher: Community Care
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• The tangled web: how child sexual exploitation is becoming more complex
  This report shows that abusers are exploiting children at younger ages and in more sophisticated ways, including moving children between areas for sex. It sets out what must be done to protect all children more effective ...
  
  Publisher: Barnardo's
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Community Care: If leaving home is too scary for many, what hope do our care leavers have?
  As charities urge ‘failing’ corporate parents to support their looked-after children until 25, one care leaver explains what worked for him and what he feels needs to change. He explains how the children’s home where he ...
  
  Publisher: Community Care
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Adoption data analysis: full report with executive summary
  The number of children placed for adoption in England has nearly doubled over the last year, according to this report by the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS). The number of adopters has also increas ...
  
  Publisher: Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Fractured childhoods: the separation of families by immigration detention
  The UK Border Agency has a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. This report presents evidence of cases in which the Border Agency has failed to safeguard children when making decisions to detain their p ...
  
  Publisher: Bail for Immigration Detainees (BiD)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• How safe are our children?
  According to the NSPCC, this report compiles the “most robust and up-to-date child protection data that exists across each of the four nations in the UK”. It sets out 19 different indicators, each looking at the question ...
  
  Publisher: NSPCC, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• What is care for: alternative models of care for adolescents
  This position statement from the Association of Directors of Children's Services on the care system for adolescents examines whether there might be alternative models better suited to the needs of young people who enter ...
  
  Publisher: Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• A report into the deaths of looked after children in Scotland 2009-2011
  Any time a looked after child dies, local authorities must inform the Care Inspectorate, which is charged with reviewing the circumstances of the death. The report shows that 30 looked after children in Scotland died bet ...
  
  Publisher: Care Inspectorate
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• The poor relations? Children and informal kinship carers speak out
  Informal kinship care arrangements have created an invisible population who have little contact with local authorities according to this major report by Buttle UK and the University of Bristol. The study provides, for th ...
  
  Publisher: Buttle UK
  Published Date: 2013