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Post-pandemic support for children and young people

    Other
  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Amid warnings of a rise in child sexual exploitation as a result of the pandemic, experts assess what more policymakers must do to support children and young people at risk as the country focuses on recovery.

Child sexual exploitation: research evidence

    Research
  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Kairika Karsna, senior research and evaluation officer at the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse, on why we need to ensure that we are capturing and understanding all forms of sexual abuse.

Digital Innovation in Social Care: Special Report

The pandemic has required children’s social care to embrace digital means to maintain vital support. Here, experts set out how this can be built on to improve how services meet children and families’ needs.

Trauma-informed Practice: Special Report

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 23, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Adverse childhood experiences can have far-reaching negative consequences on people’s lives, but there are growing efforts to implement trauma-informed practices in services to improve long-term outcomes.

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.