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Grooming case highlights failings

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  • Monday, June 25, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Following the conviction of a child grooming ring in Rochdale, Jo-Anne Prud'homme, legal researcher at Coram Children's Legal Centre, asks what more agencies could have done to protect the victims

Lack of safeguarding referrals sparks concern

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  • Monday, June 27, 2011
    • | CYP Now
The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) has warned that incidents and suspicions of abuse are going unrecorded as it emerged that referrals to the body have remained static, despite an extra five million employees and volunteers becoming subject to vetting and barring checks.

Legal Update: Tackling child sexual exploitation

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  • Tuesday, December 9, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Jen Roest, research and projects officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines a call to address child sexual exploitation in Manchester through attitudinal change of public agencies and the legal system.

Legal Update: Amendment addresses grooming

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  • Tuesday, February 3, 2015
    • | CYP Now
Jennifer Roest, research and projects officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, discusses a proposed amendment aimed at criminalising adults sending sexual messages to children and young people.

Young people and communities hold the key to ending FGM

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  • Tuesday, March 3, 2015
    • | CYP Now
The issue of female genital mutilation (FGM) is climbing up the ladder of political priorities. The knowledge that there has not been a single successful prosecution since the FGM Act was introduced in 2003 is causing much soul-searching - in government, in the crown prosecution service and in local safeguarding boards across the country.

Legal Update: Review of special guardianship

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  • Monday, September 14, 2015
    • | CYP Now
Kirsten Anderson, research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines a government consultation that will review the use of special guardianship, first introduced in 2005.

Legal Update: Age assessment guidance

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  • Tuesday, October 27, 2015
    • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines how long-awaited guidance could help social workers assess the age of children seeking asylum.

Contextual Safeguarding: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, January 5, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Contextual Safeguarding is an approach developed in 2011 as a result of work carried out by DrCarlene Firmin, principal research fellow at the University of Bedfordshire (see expert view, below). Her three-year review of responses to peer-on-peer abuse, found that 90 per cent of cases involved contextual factors which child protection systems and practices struggled to deal with.

Children's services need clarity of accountability

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  • Tuesday, August 20, 2013
    • | CYP Now
The government's proposals to transfer responsibility for children's social services in Doncaster from the local council to an independent trust have come under attack from Doncaster Mayor Ros Jones in her detailed response to the plans.

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