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Nine in 10 child sexual abuse survivors experience mental health problems, review finds

News

Thursday, August 5, 2021

| CYP Now

The mental health of almost all survivors of child sexual abuse has been impacted by their ordeal, new research shows.

Bradford has ‘lessons to learn’ over decades of child sexual exploitation, review finds

News

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

| CYP Now

Bradford still has “lessons to learn” to protect children from sexual exploitation (CSE), a major case review into two decades of abuse reveals.

Rethinking how we protect young children at risk of abuse and neglect

Analysis

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

| CYP Now

The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care acknowledges that the current system of child welfare and support needs to be re-evaluated. It provides an opportunity to rethink how the system is organised and how it responds to children in need of care and support.

Digital simulation helps practitioners spot signs of abuse

Features

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

| CYP Now

NSPCC teams up with software provider to develop a computer game that helps identify child abuse.

Guide to Contextual Safeguarding: Identifying risk from extra-familial harm

Features

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

| CYP Now

Defined as “an approach to understanding, and responding to, young people’s experiences of significant harm beyond their families”, Contextual Safeguarding seeks to protect young people from abuse or violence within their wider extra-familial network.

Guide helps children’s workers respond to sibling sexual abuse

Analysis

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Sexual abuse involving child siblings is thought to be the most common form of intra-familial child sexual abuse.

Parenting Programmes: Special Report

Features

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Parenting programmes aim to give parents the insights and skills they need to help their children thrive. CYP Now’s special report looks at the latest developments, academic research and examples of best practice.

Children’s letters give parents insight into the impact of their conflict

Features

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) co-parenting programme aims to reduce emotional damage to children caused by family conflict.

Relocation, Relocation, Relocation: Home and School-Moves for Children Affected by Extra-Familial Risks During Adolescence

Research

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

| CYP Now

This paper presents cumulative findings from studies into the contextual (situational, environmental and relational) dynamics of abuse that young people experience in extra-familial settings.

No Further Action: Contextualising Social Care Decisions for Children Victimised in Extra-Familial Settings

Research

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

| CYP Now

This paper presents findings from one component of a study to understand and advance child protection responses to youth violence and exploitation (YVE).

Contextual Safeguarding: Policy context

Other

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.

Contextual Safeguarding helps Wiltshire to hone social work practice

Features

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

| CYP Now

Wiltshire County Council is developing and implementing a Contextual Safeguarding practice framework across its children’s workforce.

Contextual Risk, Individualised Responses: An Assessment of Safeguarding Responses to Nine Cases of Peer-on-Peer Abuse

Research

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

| CYP Now

This article explores safeguarding responses to peer-on-peer abuse using the results of an in-depth study of nine police investigation files where a young person either raped or murdered a peer.

Contextual Safeguarding: Special Report

Features

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

| CYP Now

Contextual Safeguarding looks at factors beyond the home to form a broader picture when assessing risk. CYP Now’s special report looks at the latest developments, academic research and examples of best practice.