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Child protection conferences (CPCs) are key to UK child protection arrangements. They are statutory multiagency decision-making forums bringing together practitioners and family members to review serious concerns about child welfare and safety.
- Helen Richardson Foster, Christine Barter, Nicky Stanley, Harriet Churchill
- 2021
- Key Points
- Introduction
- What Is Contextual Safeguarding?
- Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) and Child Protection
- Applying The Contextual Safeguarding Framework
- Implications For The Workforce
- References
- Acknowledgements
While it remains imperative for social workers to be attentive to the risk of harm to children from family members, child protection processes must be sufficiently flexible and responsive to respon...Where child protection systems and processes require refreshing, a Contextual Safeguarding Framework provides a potential roadmap to respond to the ever-evolving range of risks and harms faced by c...Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) constitutes a particularly concerning form of ‘extra-familial harm’ which may intersect with trafficking. It appears to have become more prominent in Scotland over...Adolescents entangled in the youth justice system often exist at the interface between children and adults’ systems, with complex practice and legal dilemmas emerging as a result.The intention of this Insight is to consider some of the challenges posed to child protection processes in Scotland as a result of the evolving range of risks and harm which children and young people face in the 21st century. Specifically, I intend to focus on adolescents and to examine the concept of ‘extra-familial forms of harm’ (Firmin, 2020a, ...
Contextual safeguarding has been evolving as a concept since 2011, the primer being a detailed review examining cases of peer-on-peer abuse over a three-year period undertaken by Firmin (2017a). In many respects this review highlighted the limitations of ‘framing abuse through the lens of family’ (Firmin, 2020a, p37). Based on the learning from thi...
Having elaborated the key domains of the Contextual Safeguarding Framework, we will now consider the phenomenon of Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE), which has posed a number of significant practice challenges in the youth justice field. Drawing on a case vignette,2it will highlight how the child protection system can be stretched and strained when...
In terms of responding to the child protection challenges posed in the case vignette, several dilemmas come to the forefront. Given that CCE often goes unrecognised, ‘children are more likely to be prosecuted for offending behaviour, rather than being recognised as victims of exploitation’ (Scottish Government, 2020a, p184). As such, there is a ris...
In summary, this Insightattempts to demonstrate how child protection practice cannot afford to stand still or to remain too tightly wedded to a view of risk and harm to children that is unduly individualistic and narrowly focussed on the family. It has sought to place ‘extra-familial harm’ at the forefront for analysis and looked specifically at th...
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May 22, 2018 · Introduction. Pre-birth child protection processes involve social workers and allied professionals in assessing the risk of harm to children who are as yet unborn. Existing child protection processes have been applied to babies in utero, recognising the high vulnerability of newborns.
Jan 1, 2014 · Chapters provide helpful guidance for assessment of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, neglect, failure-to-thrive, pre-birth assessments and assessing disabled children. Relevant aspects of parenting are explored, including domestic violence, learning disability, mental health, and alcohol and substance misuse.
- Ruben Martin
- 2014
May 28, 2019 · Risk in child protection. Assessment challenges and frameworks for practice. by Martin C. Calder with Julie Archer, London, Jessica Kingsley, 2015, pb.: 336 pp., ISBN 978-1-84905-479-9, £22.99, ePUB: 304 pp., ISBN 978-0-85700-858-9, £22.99. Cristina Villalba Quesada. Pages 1099-1101 | Published online: 28 May 2019. Cite this article.
- Cristina Villalba Quesada
- 2019
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Oct 1, 2010 · The first part focuses on the assessment task and process. It includes an extremely helpful chapter by Jan Horwath that brings together key issues on analysis, decision making, planning and review, including a useful section on subjective factors that can influence the assessment process.
