Allan Norman: Home educated children and children missing from education
Allan Norman is an independent social worker and former lawyer with expertise in social work, information sharing and human rights. He kindly provided his opinion...
Category : Safeguarding Analysis
Home education hearing: UNICEF UK recommendations not in accordance with 2016 UK Supreme Court ‘Named Person’ ruling
by Rose Arnold
The following letter has been sent to the Education Select Committee and will also be sent to UNICEF UK as a complaint. UNICEF UK’s submission...
Safer children? Safeguarding referrals within educational context
by dan
Research by Professor Devine and Parker investigated the child protection training provided in educational settings and found substantial problems, leading to a culture of over...
Being ‘known’ didn’t protect the children in the 7 SCRs
by dan
Gill Kilner, long term home educator, activist and blogger on the fallacious assertion that home educated children need to be known by professionals to be...
Rethinking child protection – serious reform needed (research by Devine and Parker)
by dan
There are serious problems with our child protection system, which now involves 5% of all families yearly. We accept this because we think it will...
Dr Liz Davies: Khyra case and a failure of government policy
by dan
Dr Liz Davies is an Emeritus Professor of Social Work as well as being the social worker who blew the whistle on the Islington care...
Professor Liz Davies: How the system fails to protect children
by dan
Emeritus Professor in Social Work Liz Davies in 2008 on how the government’s policy of widening the net to ‘safeguard’ all children has damaged child...
Harm to confidentiality in a preventive child welfare system (Munro)
by dan
Professor Eileen Munro writes in 2007 about how the emerging child safeguarding policies promoting preventive and early intervention services posed a challenge to professional ethics,...
Professor Liz Davies: register of children not identified at risk is wrong
by dan
Emeritus Professor in Social Work, Liz Davies, wrote in The Guardian newspaper about why keeping a register of children who frequently visit hospital is an...
Estimating child abuse can overload social workers and put pressure on families
by dan
A report ‘Estimating child abuse numbers can overload social workers and put more pressure on families’ by Dr Devine and Mr Parker critiques the way...