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Coalition fails to improve care placements

    News
  • Thursday, November 27, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The coalition government has failed to make any progress in getting children into the right placement when they first enter care and ensuring it is close to their home, a damning report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the scale of child neglect, its long-term effect on children's wellbeing and how interventions can prevent and repair the damage caused to children's ability to form strong attachments with parents and carers.

Intrafamilial Abuse: Policy context

    Other
  • Tuesday, October 31, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Detailed analysis of police files by the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England shows that around one in four reported child sexual abuse cases were classed as child sexualabuse in the family environment (CSAFE).

Opinion: Who carries the can when things go wrong in childsafeguarding?

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 12, 2014
  • | CYP Now
What did you think last month when you heard that the Prime Minister of South Korea had offered his resignation in the wake of the ferry disaster? I don't suppose anybody thought that the PM had been at the helm of the ship that sunk, or that he could personally be held to blame for any lapses in the training of supervision of the ferry. But the culture in South Korea expects that those in highest authority carry responsibility for anything that goes wrong.

Opinion: Learning by doing has more impact than learning by rote

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 12, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Here's an admission: I've recently come to the view that what I've believed for a long time about how I work is, if not wrong, woefully incomplete. Worse, I've always known this, subconsciously, but have ignored it because it did not fit my prejudices. For years, I have been promoting the need to understand the legal basis of what we do. I am one of the sad people to have read the year 2000 study on the law of education and the role of the local authority, from preface to appendices. I was one of the few students attending the lectures on education law during my Postgraduate Certificate in Education course.

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