Factors affecting the retention of childrens names on the Child Protection Register for a period of

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Factors affecting the retention of childrens
names on the Child Protection Register for a
period of two years or over

• Ruth Pearson

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Background

• MA Child Protection and Child Welfare
  Huddersfield University
• Performance Indicator (DfES)
• Impact of long-term abuse and neglect
• Situation as at 2003-04

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Literature Review

• The Child Protection and Registration Process
• Factors Affecting Risk Registration Children
• Factors Affecting Risk Registration Parents
• Factors Within the Inter-Agency Network
  support, authority, inter-agency working

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Methods

• Documents
• Process
• Fields
• Coding
• Statistical Significance

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Groups

• Group A
• On CPR for two years or over at point of
  de-registration
• 23 Children (originally 29), 17 Families
• Group B
• On CPR for less than two years at point of
  de-registration
• 35 children, 24 Families

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Findings Children

• Age at Registration
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Findings Children

• Numbers of Children in Family

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Findings Children

• Category of Abuse

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Findings Children

• Outcomes

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Findings Children

• Other
• Gender
• Ethnicity
• Learning Disability/Behaviour
• Physical Disability

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Findings Parents

• Substance Misuse

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Findings Parents

• Domestic Abuse

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Findings Parents

• Parental Mental Health

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Findings Parents

• Age of main carer

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Findings Parents

• Children living in lone parent households

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Findings Parents

• Previous SSD CPR

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Findings Parents

• Other
• Geographical area
• Reliant on benefits
• Criminal conviction

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Findings Parents

• Level of Acceptance of Concerns

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Findings Parents

• Levels of co-operation

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Findings Parents

• Levels of Empathy with needs of child

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Findings Inter-Agency Network

• Support
• Authority
• Inter-Agency working

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Findings Inter-Agency Network

• Support, Authority Inter-Agency Working

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Discussion

• Children
• Characteristics
• Outcomes
• Parents
• Characteristics
• Attitudes

• Inter Agency Network
• Support
• Authority
• Inter-Agency working

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Conclusions

• Nature of effective practice
• Importance of plan
• Early effective intervention
• Some families
• Unable/unwilling to accept advice guidance
• These families require more support, not less
  more authority, not less and better, not poorer,
  inter-agency collaboration