In the wake of the Baby P scandal comes a constant chorus of demands that GPs should be forced to attend case conferences about children considered to be at risk. We are also obliged to complete ...

Statistics on child protection covering the year ended 31 March 2000 have been published today. ... Statistics on child protection covering the year ended 31 March 2000 have been published today. The ...

Statistics on child protection covering the year ended 31 March 2002 have been published today. The main points are... Statistics on child protection covering the year ended 31 March 2002 have been ...

Budget cuts are leading to higher thresholds for safeguarding cases, endangering children and putting great stress on social workers. Judy Cooper reports on practitioners’ mounting alarm “I’m afraid ...

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SIR – I read your story headlined Child abuse figures rise (September 26) with interest but feel obliged to clarify some points to avoid your readers being misled. The article states that social ...

Vital conferences in Perth and Kinross to protect vulnerable children have had to be postponed due to NHS workers not attending. Between April and September 2018, nine out of 37 Perth and Kinross ...

THIRTY years ago today, police and social workers carried out “dawn raids” on four family homes on South Ronaldsay, Orkney, and took away nine children under Place Of Safety Orders. These orders cited ...

Dr Janice Allister and Dr Andrew Mowat answer questions on the procedures practices should have for safeguarding children Child maltreatment is a thorny area, but one in which primary care plays an ...

THE council at the centre of the scandal in which three children were removed from their family after a mistaken diagnosis of sexual abuse is refusing to explain why Assembly Government guidelines ...

HUNDREDS of children are being put on the child protection register – BEFORE they are even born. A Wales on Sunday investigation has revealed more than 550 unborn babies were put on the ‘at risk’ ...

I fear sexually abused children are no better identified and detected in Scotland today than they were 30 years ago. Indeed, as a proportion of concerns raised through the child protection system, ...