We Can’t afford child protection
Collateral Damage
The term collateral damage was originally the unintentional deaths and injuries of people who are not soldiers, and damage that is caused to their homes, hospitals, schools,… Read More »Collateral Damage
Financial cost
Local authority children’s services have been reduced to crisis-driven firefighting as a result of years of under investment. This has left them ill-prepared to cope… Read More »Financial cost
Child Rights and Parents
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) sees the family as underpinning children’s rights. Thus the preamble to the UNCRC says: Convinced that… Read More »Child Rights and Parents
Does child protection reduce harm to children
Perhaps surprisingly, there is no evidence to show that, at the population level, child protection activity of the investigative sort carried out in high income… Read More »Does child protection reduce harm to children
Child protection spiralling out of control
Internationally in many English speaking countries there are growing numbers of child protection investigations and more parents are being accused of abuse than ever before. At the same time investigations are less likely to find ‘abuse’.
How policies misinterpret research and exaggerate risk
This review of the 91 English children’s services departments with specific policies on bruising in pre-mobile children found a major disjuncture between research evidence and… Read More »How policies misinterpret research and exaggerate risk