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Children 'left traumatised' by police raids

Monday, November 7, 2016

| CYP Now

Children who are at home during police raids to arrest a parent or family should get more support to help them deal with the trauma, a charity has said.

First multi-agency child protection inspection criticises health services

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

| CYP Now

Health services have come in for criticism for failing to properly assess risks to children following the first joint inspection of child protection across health, social care and criminal justice services.

Children in residential care 'excessively criminalised'

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

| CYP Now

Children in residential care are being criminalised at excessively high rates compared with other boys and girls, a campaign group has claimed.

Police forces ‘failing' missing children

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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

| CYP Now

Police are failing to properly protect missing children from potential abuse, a report has found.

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

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Monday, November 30, 2015

| CYP Now

Police must be given greater discretion when dealing with children who share explicit pictures of themselves so that their future life chances are not harmed, a group of MPs and peers has said.

Children as young as seven ‘show signs' of future gang involvement

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

| CYP Now

Police, councils, youth services, and schools should be working with children as young as seven to prevent them getting involved with gangs or violent youth crime, it has been claimed.

Extremism strategy to put madrassas under closer scrutiny

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Monday, October 19, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education (DfE) will develop a new system to intervene in unofficial Islamic schools where there are concerns about the way children are being taught, it has been announced.

Police chiefs unveil strategy to treat under-18s as 'children first'

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Thursday, September 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Police officers dealing with under-18s should treat them as "children first" rather than potential criminals, the organisation representing police chiefs has said.

Vulnerable missing children exploited by drug gangs, report finds

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Thursday, July 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Runaway and missing children are being exploited by criminal gangs in order to expand inner city drug networks into county towns, a study has found.

CSE victims to play central role improving services in Rotherham

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Rotherham Council is enlisting the help of victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE) to help it improve the way it tackles abuse in the town.

Whitehall unit to reform child protection systems under a Labour government

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Monday, February 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Labour will create a cross-government child protection unit to "revolutionise" safeguarding systems and practice if the party is elected in May.

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

| CYP Now

Nearly six months since professor Alexis Jay's report revealed the extent of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, the government's troubled families tsar Louise Casey's has pulled no punches in her assessment of how the authority has fared since.

Government to fast-track legislation for mandatory FGM reporting

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Friday, January 30, 2015

| CYP Now

The government intends to change the law to make reporting suspected cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) mandatory prior to May's general election.

Police call for joint-working improvements to tackle CSE

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

| CYP Now

Failures to share information and work together are hindering attempts by police and children's social services to tackle child sexual exploitation (CSE), the lead police officer on the issue has warned.

One in six authorities to face multi-agency inspections

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Monday, June 23, 2014

| CYP Now

Up to 25 local authorities will be judged on their multi-agency child protection arrangements under new inspections being introduced in April 2015, it has been announced.

Big rise in number of child trafficking victims

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

| CYP Now

The number of British children believed to be victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation has more than doubled in the space of a year.

Minister criticises Hamzah Khan review findings

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's minister Edward Timpson has slammed a review into the death of toddler Hamzah Khan for failing to answer key questions about the case, claiming it contains "glaring absences".

Haringey "missed opportunities" to prevent abuse of toddler

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Friday, October 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Police, social workers and medical staff could have prevented the abuse of a toddler at the hands of his family in Haringey, a report has found.

Multi-agency partnerships improve child abuse detection

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Multi-agency child protection arrangements are improving information sharing across partner bodies and helping to identify safeguarding problems quicker, a government review of local partnerships has found.

Police deny young people's rights in custody, High Court told

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

| CYP Now

Young people's rights are being breached because of a failure to offer independent support and advice to 17-year-olds in police custody, it has been claimed.

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Nine out of ten teachers, police officers and social workers are regularly coming into contact with children they suspect to be suffering from neglect, but up to 40 per cent feel powerless to intervene, a report has warned.

Death in custody report highlights 'systemic failures'

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

| CYP Now

Children and young people who have died in custody in recent years haven been let down by "systemic failures", a study has found.

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

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Monday, January 16, 2012

| CYP Now

Sweeping reform of the youth justice system is necessary to prevent hundreds of children being "needlessly" criminalised and sentenced to custody, according to a think-tank.

Home Office brands chief constable's cuts comments 'irresponsible'

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Friday, February 25, 2011

| CYP Now

A chief constable has been criticised by the Home Office after claiming that cuts to his force will place vulnerable people "at risk".

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Children 'left traumatised' by police raids

First multi-agency child protection inspection criticises health services

Children in residential care 'excessively criminalised'

Police forces ‘failing' missing children

MPs call for police discretion in child 'sexting' cases

Children as young as seven ‘show signs' of future gang involvement

Extremism strategy to put madrassas under closer scrutiny

Police chiefs unveil strategy to treat under-18s as 'children first'

Vulnerable missing children exploited by drug gangs, report finds

CSE victims to play central role improving services in Rotherham

Whitehall unit to reform child protection systems under a Labour government

Casey savages Rotherham CSE response: the key failings

Government to fast-track legislation for mandatory FGM reporting

Police call for joint-working improvements to tackle CSE

One in six authorities to face multi-agency inspections

Big rise in number of child trafficking victims

Minister criticises Hamzah Khan review findings

Haringey "missed opportunities" to prevent abuse of toddler

Multi-agency partnerships improve child abuse detection

Police deny young people's rights in custody, High Court told

Professionals feel ‘powerless' when faced with neglect

Death in custody report highlights 'systemic failures'

Youth justice reforms must go 'further and deeper'

Home Office brands chief constable's cuts comments 'irresponsible'

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