They warn that child protection services are “not equipped with the skills and support to listen, hear and protect these children from horrific abuse”.
“Children are all too often ignored or disbelieved,” warns the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, which has issued the warning following its review into 136 safeguarding incidents of abuse and neglect.
This found that children “do not receive the protection they need" and "the risk posed by adults within the family is frequently misunderstood or minimised”.
In more than a third of incidents the perpetrator in the family had a “known history of sexual offending or who was known to present some risk of sexual harm”.
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