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Legal Update: Tackling child sexual exploitation

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  • Tuesday, December 9, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Jen Roest, research and projects officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines a call to address child sexual exploitation in Manchester through attitudinal change of public agencies and the legal system.

Sector divided over merits of mandatory abuse reporting

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  • Tuesday, October 28, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Recent high-profile child abuse cases have led to a growing support for mandatory reporting of abuse allegations. But some experts believe such moves could have unintended consequences that could harm the child protection system.

Doncaster's deliverer

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  • Monday, October 13, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Neil Puffett speaks to Paul Moffat, chief executive, Doncaster Children's Services Trust.

Let's teach young people how to protect themselves from abuse

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  • Monday, September 29, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The Rotherham abuse inquiry has unleashed a torrent of outrage across the nation. The failures of public services to respond effectively to the evidence of child sexual exploitation have been shocking. The evidence of neglect, complacency and downright indifference from many agencies has been causing a lot of soul-searching in every part of the nation.

Daily roundup: Child abuse, early years services and academy conversions

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  • Tuesday, September 23, 2014
  • | CYP Now
MP Keith Vaz criticises parliamentary evidence of former director of children's services at Rotherham Council; government adviser on health inequality calls for greater investment in the early years; and education think-tank calls for mass academy conversion, all in the news today.

Tables must be turned in favour of sexual exploitation victims

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  • Monday, September 15, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Will 2014 mark a watershed year for vulnerable children in Britain? A watershed when, finally, the bleak reality of sexual abuse and exploitation that has for too long gone unchallenged, is recognised? A watershed when the institutions and bodies that have all too often turned a blind eye or, worse, been part of the network of cover-up, are at last held to account and change the way they work? And a watershed for the way that we all as individuals and communities view children and offer them the support and protection they need?

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