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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.

Government announces overhaul of child protection procedures

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  • Tuesday, June 12, 2012
  • | CYP Now
National timescales for assessing children in need will be scrapped and guidance governing work with children drastically reduced, under the government's plans to overhaul procedures that it claims stifle the judgment of children's professionals.

DfE cuts to research evaluations spark concern

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  • Monday, February 28, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The Department for Education (DfE) has cut 7.5m from research projects evaluating everything from academy schools to services for disabled children, an investigation by the Radical Statistics Group has revealed.

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