child protection policy
Technical problems stopped use of key ContactPoint function
Children & Young People Now, 19 January 2010
A system glitch left professionals unable to use a key part of the controversial ContactPoint database, CYP Now can reveal.
Family court experts must be open to scrutiny
The Times (London), 28 September 2009
The naming of witnesses and childcare practitioners could reduce miscarriages of justice as well as cut costs and delays.
The bullying of common sense
Sunday Times, 27 September 2009
What sort of culture allows a school dinner lady to be sacked for telling a seven-year-old’s parents she had been bullied? By Richard Woods and Richard Goss.
Dinner lady Carol Hill is a victim of Labour’s weasel mindset
Sunday Times, 27 September 2009
By Minnette Marrin.
Music teacher jailed for lesbian affair with pupil
The Times (London), 22 September 2009
Helen Goddard jailed for 15 months after admitting relationship but will be allowed to continue seeing teenager.
Paranoia surrounding paedophiles ‘stops us taking pictures of our children’
Daily Mail, 17 September 2009
Paranoia surrounding paedophiles and terrorism is causing a 'creeping restriction' on the freedom to take photographs, a report warns today.
Parents questioned after girl, 8, hangs in bedroom
The Times (London), 14 September 2009
Charlotte Moody, who was known to social services, was found at hanging in the family home in Mansfield.
‘Children are the lifeblood of Blue Peter’
The Times (London), 12 September 2009
Former editor of the children’s show, Biddy Baxter, hopes common sense will prevail in rules on the appearance of minors.
Blaming the public for social work’s problems
spiked, 7 September 2009
Social workers took a lot of flak after the Baby P case, but a government campaign to recruit more is hypocritical. By Ken McLaughlin.
Bullying the public
spiked, 29 July 2009
The latest NSPCC/ChildLine initiative on bullied children presents both adults and kids as toxic beings. By Helene Guldberg.
Pupils coordinating false teacher claims on web
The Times (London), 17 June 2009
Teaching unions claim number of baseless allegations on the rise as hundreds of careers are left in tatters every year.
Social services deny dying mother’s wish
The Times (London), 15 June 2009
A woman whose children are fostered has been told that her contact with them will be reduced because her health is failing.
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