What are the limitations of local safeguarding policies? Well, according to a National Youth Agency (NYA) report, most fail to recognise that young people need to be treated separately to younger children.
In a new paper seen exclusively by CYP Now, the NYA argues there is an assumption that combining children's and young people's safeguarding policies sufficiently addresses their needs. The report says this assumption "fails to grasp that the issues pertaining to safeguarding adolescents are particular and different to those pertaining to children".
In fact, current policies are skewed towards children and "shockingly" focus on young people as perpetrators of abuse rather than the victims of it.
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