Child protection experts from Coventry Council are to visit 13 city schools in a bid to improve how they deal with suspected child abuse. Most of those schools were chosen after an audit by council child protection experts found their systems for dealing with concerns about possible child abuse were not sufficient. The checks arose from a report by Coventry Safeguarding Children’s Board into implementing recommendations made in the serious case review into the death of four-year-old Daniel Pelka, reports the Coventry Telegraph.
The Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has defended its decision to offer patients counselling sessions in Kent coffee shops. It said it wanted to ensure its child and adolescent mental health services were “as accessible as possible to young people”. But the MP for Tunbridge Wells and local parents told the Kent Courier they are concerned about psychiatric counselling and assessments are happening in public places like cafes.
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