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Independent scrutiny is ‘grit’ in safeguarding system

Thursday, September 21, 2023

| CYP Now

“Oversight” is one of those words that can often raise an unintended smile, especially when it gets wheeled out in an official capacity.

#LookCloser campaign tackles child exploitation

Opinion

Thursday, February 23, 2023

| CYP Now

The #LookCloser campaign is a nationwide effort aimed at educating the public and businesses about child exploitation and encouraging them to be vigilant in spotting and reporting potential signs of exploitation.

Safeguarding reforms must include funding

Opinion

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

| CYP Now

The safeguarding failings identified in the Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes panel review are sadly all too familiar.

Letters to the Editor: Children will need support in ‘new normal’

Opinion

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

| CYP Now

From autumn, “bubbles” in schools are no longer needed and children under 18 years old don’t have to self-isolate if they are contacted by NHS Test and Trace as a close contact of a positive Covid-19 case. Edging closer to getting back to “normal”.

Let’s put our minds to solving refugee crisis

Opinion

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

| CYP Now

Recent research stated that 100,000 children are in London without secure immigration status, yet, last month, MPs voted to drop child refugee protections from the Brexit Bill.

Opinion: Who carries the can when things go wrong in childsafeguarding?

Opinion

Monday, May 12, 2014

| CYP Now

What did you think last month when you heard that the Prime Minister of South Korea had offered his resignation in the wake of the ferry disaster? I don't suppose anybody thought that the PM had been at the helm of the ship that sunk, or that he could personally be held to blame for any lapses in the training of supervision of the ferry. But the culture in South Korea expects that those in highest authority carry responsibility for anything that goes wrong.

Blame games make the job of a DCS untenable

Opinion

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Last Friday, the Reading Post published a story about how children's services in the town received only one application for each of the three senior social worker jobs it advertised. On the same day, the Coventry Telegraph reported that 30 demonstrators had gathered outside the city's town hall calling for more action to be taken against the agencies involved in the Daniel Pelka case.