Child Protection

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Child Protection
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Definition

• A abused child is a boy or girl under the age of
  18 years who has suffered physical injury,
  neglect, emotional or sexual abuse which the
  person or persons who had custody, charge or care
  of the child either caused or knowingly failed to
  prevent.

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Types of abuse

• Physical abuse
• Sexual abuse
• Neglect and failure to thrive
• Emotional abuse

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NSPCC SURVEY 2000

• Random interviews with 2869 young people aged 18
  - 24

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• 7 serious physical abuse
• 6 serious lack of care
• 1 left overnight under age 10
• 6 Emotionally abused
• 1 sexually abused by a parent
• 3 sexually abused by another relative

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• Overall 10 of children are likely to be abused
• Bradfords 0-18 population is 143,349

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NSPCC Survey The Myths

• Sexual abuse is the commonest kind
• Children are 7 times more likely to be badly
  beaten by parents than sexually abused
• Most physical abuse is carried out by men
• In 49 it was the mother and 40 the father

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• Most sexual abuse is father/daughter
• This type is rare occurring in only 0.4
• Outside the family sexual violence is by adults
• Young people are the commonest offenders
• Sexual abuse by professionals is common
• Less than 0.3 reported such abuse

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Who abuses?
Perpetrator in anal abuse Father 16 Mother
6 Uncle 5 Male cohabitee 4 Stepfather
1 Grandfather 2 Lodger 1 Cousin 1 Boy in
street 1
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Stranger Abuse
Children under 16 murdered 1984 1993 860
Children under 16 murdered by strangers 84 -
93 Under 5 15 5-9 15 10 - 14 27 Total 57
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Victoria Climbie

• 8 year old Victoria came to Britain on 24 April
  1999
• She died on 25 February 2000
• On 12 January 2001 Marie Therese Kouao and Carl
  Manning were convicted of her murder

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Victoria Climbie

• By the time she died she had been known to
• 4 Social Services departments
• 3 Housing departments
• 2 Specialist Police units
• 2 Hospitals
• 1 NSPCC Family Centre

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Victoria Climbie

• She never went to school
• Although she visited a GPs surgery she was never
  registered with a GP
• She was not spoken to by any professional

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Confidentiality
Every Child Matters

• The government says
• It wants to prevent situations where a child
  does not receive the help they need because of
  too rigid an interpretation of the privacy of the
  child and their family.

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Child Protection Now

• Safeguarding 2006

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What will be different

• Local Safeguarding Childrens Boards statutory
  footing (Children Act 2004)
• Functions
• Protecting children from maltreatment.
• Preventing impairment of childrens health or
  development.
• Ensuring that children are growing up in
  circumstances consistent with the provision of
  safe and effective care.

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Policies Procedures

• Training will be extended.
• Serious Case Reviews
• Child Death Review Teams will consider unexpected
  death of a child and review the deaths of all
  children in the area.

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Working Together (2006)

• A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and
  promote the welfare of children.