A report commissioned by the Department for Education, Safeguarding and Radicalisation, highlights a wide range of issues facing local authorities and providers of children's social care services, such as fostering agencies and children's homes. Below are the three key challenges.
1. Radicalisation is everyone's business
What is worrying from the DfE study is that it reveals some authorities downplay the safeguarding element as they do not get many cases. This is naïve and dangerous.
Radicalisation is best seen alongside child sexual exploitation (CSE) and sexual abuse as a form of exploitation of vulnerable children by those who have gained their trust and cooperation for nefarious intent.
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