Experts have said that new statutory safeguarding guidance for schools fails to recognise the opportunity to teach children how to keep themselves safe. Sexual health charity Brook, the PSHE Association and Sex Education Forum has issued a joint statement saying that the government guidance “misses a huge opportunity”. They say it only makes a passing reference to teaching sex and relationships education (SRE) despite a previous Ofsted report making a link between the quality of SRE and children's vulnerability to sexual abuse.
A High Court judge is considering an application from social workers for two young children currently being placed for adoption to be given completely new identities to prevent their abusive parents tracking them down. The Telegraph reports that the social workers also want to sever all contact between the children, aged two and three, and their five older brothers and sisters to make it more difficult for their parents, who are currently in prison for abuse, to find them.
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