极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Practitioners to be mandated to report child sexual abuse

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Annie

Annie — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 22:02:00 +0000

Enquiries have identified that professionals in the police force, social services and health all failed to act on repeated referrals by community workers and others of children suffering or likely to be suffering child sexual abuse in a number of high profile cases. These children were subsequently identified as victims of highly organised grooming gangs (Rochdale,Telford, Oxford amongst others). Responses and prevailing views at the time included ‘the girls would make poor witnesses’ or ‘the girls were making life style choices’.
It is crucial that action does not end with the reporting. But unless the law is clear, there will be some who holdback from the first step. How many serious case reviews/child safeguarding practice reviews have identified that the indicators of csa were missed, or physical abuse was reported but the signs of sexual abuse were ignored.
it could be argued that most politicians have one eye on the ballot papers, it was ever thus but what is the point of cynicism when a law that will help protect children is proposed. I wish this guidance had existed when I was in practice – I recall cases where it seemed authorities were powerless to do anything and this fed down to disempower practitioners. Also cases where professionals (and their managers) covered up what was happening – from various motives.
I would hope the process of consultation will facilitate sensible contributions from experienced workers across professions and finally achieve some protective legislation/guidance – along with improvements in training.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Tracey Coulthard

Tracey Coulthard — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 08:47:41 +0000

I hear the low murmur of the academics and self promoting experts coalescing in creating a din about how if there were dedicated “investigators with specialist knowledge and skills” this would enhance safeguarding strategies and elevate status of social workers. 3 months and CC will feature above. Guaranteed.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Chris Sterry

Chris Sterry — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:26:21 +0000

Whether it be mandatory or not there is a ‘Duty of Care’ and any areas of any possible alerts of abuse should be reported and not just those of a sexual nature. Also not just in respect of girls, but for any persons who is deemed to be vulnerable, be they be girls/boys, elderly, persons with disabilities, etc.

This is a duty of everyone and not just professionals.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: dk

dk — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:39:45 +0000

It may well be to come, but it is disappointing to see Community Care omit from its reporting on this issue the dog-whistle racism Braverman and Sunak have employed to essentially use vulnerable girls as a political football. The rhetoric around this policy, and nobody should be under any illusions that the policy is driven by rhetoric and an attempt to position Labour as woke/leftie soft-touches, flies completely in the face of the Home Office’s own research into who perpetrates CSA, and against who. The Conservative Party’s pushing of this issue into its agenda has nothing to do with a desire to protect girls. It has everything into goading one of Starmer’s less well-trained MPs into calling out racism, and hence losing the (let’s face it) racists the Labour Party now actively courts. If this was anything to do with protecting girls, the policies would be founded on research and what the organisations and people with expertise, some of it lived, have been clear would actually help.

My gut and professional experience tells me that it is only a tiny minority of professionals who are told about or who directly witness CSA who are not reporting this to the police and their LA. What I’m much more concerned about is the possibility that the reporting of “indicators” of CSA will be made mandatory, or more so that the failure to do so (which will only ever be identified with the benefit of hindsight) will be criminalized. As I see it, there is absolutely no ethical justification for not reporting something you know to have happened. Reporting that you have observed behaviours that are congruent with CSA, but also congruent with countless other non-harmful experiences, is a much more nuanced matter.