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Child sex offence recorded every 10 minutes
Numbers gained from the police by the NSPCC show that a child sex offence is recorded every 10 minutes in the UK, on average. These offences include r...
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High proportion of looked after children don’t understand why they are in care
The findings of a survey of more than 600 young people in care has found that a significant proportion of looked after children are uncertain about th...
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NSPCC calls for fix in sexual grooming law
Although police recorded over 1,100 offences of ‘meeting a child following sexual grooming’ in the year to September 2016, the police still can’...
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Children in poorest areas almost 10 times more likely to go into care
New research has revealed that children living in the UK’s poorest neighbourhoods are over 10 times more likely to be taken into care or placed on a...
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Social work self-evaluations to be shared with Ofsted
Ofsted has announced that it will pilot a scheme in which councils send them audits of frontline social work practice, under a new inspection regime. ...
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New draft NICE guideline on improving response to child abuse
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has produced a new draft guideline on child abuse and neglect. It outlines how social wor...
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Guidance on social work and guardian collaboration
The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) and Cafcass have published a new agreement on how local authority social workers and fami...
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Almost 80% rise in reports of child-on-child sex offences
Police figures have shown that the number of children committing sexual offences against other children has risen by 78% in three years. The figures w...
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