The unfortunate reality is that many children who experience these tragic outcomes are already known to services.
- Professor of Safeguarding and Violence Prevention, Director of the Institute for Children's Futures, Manchester Metropolitan University
When you’re doing your best to work from home with the kids around, it’s pretty difficult to monitor what they are doing on the tablet or TV.
A safeguarding expert explains why these reforms could change things.
The term ‘grooming’ is often misused or misunderstood, but its scope reaches far beyond child abuse.
It’s not just children designated as being ‘at risk’ who are vulnerable. There are thousands of others who have not been assessed and who need the ‘safe haven’ of school.
We can’t just blame falling rape prosecutions on a lack of resources.
The law around ‘sexting’ needs to be overhauled as the way young people communicate changes and evolves.
The nature of sexual offending has changed, but can we better identify sexual groomers before abuse occurs?
Social media and the internet has helped create a new type of sexual predator, forcing us to reassess our understanding of the terms “friend” and “stranger”.
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