Systemic failures to keep children safe in the last century and this one have placed the safeguarding of teenagers at the top of the national agenda.
The report out last week, resulting from evidence submitted to a cross-party panel of MPs, examined the wider issues of neglect and intervention thresholds. But it is its focus on the safeguarding of older children that strikes a particularly timely chord. Three key points from the report must strike home for the entire children’s and young people’s workforce.
First, the report should dispel any perceptions that neglect and abuse is confined to small children. In fact, 24 per cent of serious case reviews concern children aged 14 and older.
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