The Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England has launched an inquiry into child sexual abuse in the family environment after a preliminary study found “alarming gaps” in knowledge about its prevalence, effects, and how best to prevent it. The two-year inquiry will assess how widespread it is, what must be done to support the victims, and how to stop it.
Mental health services have come in for criticism following the death of a 15-year-old girl in Cumbria. The North-West Evening Mail reports that a serious case review into the death of Helena Farrell, who was found hanged in woodlands last year, identified several major failings among services and agencies charged with protecting young people in the county. She was assessed by a social worker at Barrow’s Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service as posing no imminent risk to herself just a day before she died in January 2013.
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