If you are worried about a child contact
Children First Contact Service 020 8770 6001 or cfcs@sutton.gov.uk
If out of hours call the Emergency Duty Team 020 8770 5000
If you are worried about a child contact Children First Contact Service 020 8770 6001 or cfcs@sutton.gov.uk. If out of hours call the Emergency Duty Team 020 8770 5000
Source: NSPCC Learning
Date: 14 March 2024
NSPCC Learning has published a new statistics briefing on child neglect. It looks at data and statistics about child neglect in the UK to help professionals make evidence-based decisions, covering the scale of the issue and what data tells us about children who have been neglected.
Read/Download the briefing: Neglect: statistics briefing
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> Protecting children from neglect
Date: 13 March 2024
NSPCC Learning has published a Helplines insight briefing on barriers for professionals when reporting child abuse and neglect. It is based on contacts to the NSPCC Helpline and NSPCC Whistleblowing Advice Line in 2022/23 by people working or volunteering with children and young people. The briefing identified gaps in knowledge and confidence for some professionals including believing they needed to wait for permission to report concerns. There were also fears around sharing concerns, including worries about disrupting or breaking up families and fears for personal safety. Some professionals described organisational issues such as a lack of safeguarding processes and concealing of abuse.
Read the briefing: Barriers for professionals to reporting abuse and neglect: Helplines insight briefing
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> Recognising and responding to abuse
This National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) thematic report aims to identify common characteristics of children and young people who die as a result of physical trauma, investigate factors associated with these deaths and identify common themes to help inform policymakers, commissioners, those providing services to children and young people, and those involved in reviewing deaths of children and young people. There is a statutory requirement for Child Death Overview Panels (CDOPs) to review the deaths of all children in England who die before their 18th birthday. For the purposes of this report, the term “children and young people” refers to those up to the age of 18.
Date: 08 March 2024
NSPCC Learning has published a briefing summarising learning from case reviews to support improved practice around assessments. Based on a sample of case reviews published between 2018 and 2023 where practice issues around assessments were a key factor, learning includes: focus on the voice and needs of the child; involve all significant people in the child’s life; gather and share information across agencies and local areas; and critically evaluate any information collected.
Read the briefing: Assessments: learning from case reviews
Source: CSA Centre
Date: 14 February 2024
The CSA Centre has published a report on child sexual abuse in England and Wales. The report analyses existing data from children’s social care, policing, criminal justice and health to explore how child sexual abuse is being identified and responded to. Findings show: across the year, local authority children’s services in England recorded concerns about child sexual abuse in 33,760 assessments of children; concerns about child sexual exploitation were recorded in 15,020 assessments; and one in 10 assessments undertaken by local authorities in England recorded a concern about some form of child sexual abuse.
Download the report: Child sexual abuse in 2022/23: trends in official data (PDF)
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> Protecting children from sexual abuse