Imagine you’re a child protection worker who has received a notification from a teacher voicing concerns about a child in her class. The case involves a five-year-old boy named Toby. Toby’s mum has had…
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Reports of child abuse related to accusations of witchcraft are on the rise in London, with 27 allegations made to the Metropolitan Police in the past year and 148 cases since 2004. Yet the people charged…
Children who have been taken into state care need timely decisions on whether to separate them from their birth families. Delayed decisions means leaving children who have suffered abuse and neglect in…
Rotherham Metropolitan Council has released its independent report on the handling of child sexual exploitation cases in the borough between 1997 and 2013. The author of the report, Professor Alexis Jay…
The revelations from a year-long inquiry into the sexual exploitation of children in Rotherham serve to highlight issues that are both distressing and important. At the same time, they also emphasise the…
The confirmation that 1,400 children were subjected to sexual exploitation over a 16 year period in Rotherham forms part of a wider picture of similar events. The Catholic Church has still not worked out…
Sexual abuse of children has been in the news in recent months; the coverage of a devastating report on the abuse of at least 1,400 children in Rotherham over a number of years, in the face of official…
The Department for Education’s proposal that for-profit companies could provide child protection services and other statutory functions for families caused a major public uproar this spring – and the furore…
With the media once again full of stories of a celebrity facing accusations of committing historical child sexual abuse, it is important that we keep sight of the risks young people face today and of realistic…
Over the past few years, policy-makers, academics and practitioners have paid more and more attention to children who are trafficked into and within the UK. But while children are trafficked for various…
The serious case review into the deaths of the six children who died in a house fire started by their parents Mick and Mairead Philpott has concluded that their deaths “could not have been predicted or…
Imagine being the mother of a young autistic boy, whose violent outbursts had caused $30,000 of damage to your rented home - but being too afraid to ask anyone for help for fear of having your son taken…
Google and Microsoft have agreed to install filters on their search engines to prevent them being used to search for child abuse images. Some queries on Google and Bing will be blocked, while others will…
Michael Gove has taken aim at social workers and called for a major rethink of how they approach their work. According to the education secretary, social workers are often trained to see those they work…
Recent revelations about the frequency with which children experience cyber-bullying have caused alarm among parents, advertisers that feature on social media sites and even the Prime Minister. Social…
Social workers have one of the most difficult jobs to do. Imagine juggling several cases involving children at risk in their own home at the same time - and making decisions that could affect those children…
The government’s Family Nurse Partnership would benefit from a broadening of its target demographic, according to research…
Since Monday’s announcement of the creation of a Royal Commission into institutional child abuse there has been some discussion about what this might achieve. In short how will a Royal Commission be different…
In response to the ongoing cascade of accusations and evidence of systemic and decades long child abuse, the federal government finally announced a Royal Commission into institutional responses to child…
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Associate Supervisor in Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Huddersfield
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Director, Arney Chong Consulting and Positive Futures Research, Adelaide University
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Aboriginal Enterprise Fellow, Australian Centre for Child Protection, Adelaide University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Assistant, Australian Centre for Child Protection, Adelaide University
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Former Director, National Centre for Social Research
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Director, Kath McFarlane Consulting & Adjunct Associate Professor, The Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Professor, Chair of Child Protection, Director, Australian Centre Child Protection, Adelaide University
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Associate Research Professor, Adelaide University
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Professor & Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Social Work, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University