The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel's annual report has found that 53 per cent of children experienced neglect before a safeguarding incident occurred in 2022/23.
The data was collected through an analysis of evidence from national and local safeguarding reviews in partnership with the National Policing Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme from January 2022 to March 2023.
It highlighted that “funding, recruitment, and retention pressures have had a discernible impact on the delivery of the best safeguarding practice to children and families”.
A decline in children and family social workers in 2022 and a drop in workforce numbers across other services supporting vulnerable families, like health visiting, was also highlighted.
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