In the London borough of Tower Hamlets 60 per cent of under-19s come from the Bangladeshi community with another 17 per cent from other ethnic minority groups.
Given the borough's composition, the safeguarding needs of children in these communities is a constant focal point for the local safeguarding children board.
A four-month study undertaken by the council alongside charity Coram and DMSS consultants, has tried to discover whether child protection services in the borough are reaching children from every ethnic group.
There were concerns from members of the local safeguarding children board that certain communities were over- or under-represented in numbers of child protection plans, social care referrals, and care orders. So researchers attempted to look beyond the statistics.
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