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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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2 results foundAuthor: Wilkinson, Julie Title: The impacts of abuse and neglect on children; and comparison of different placement options. Evidence review Summary: In recent years the government has introduced a number of policy papers aimed at transforming the children's social care system. Much of this reform began in 2000 with the publication of Adoption: A new approach. More recently, major changes have been introduced through the Family Justice Review; the subsequent Children and Families Act 20144, including the revised Public Law Outline (PLO) and the 26-week time-frame for completing care proceedings; and the recent publication of Putting Children First. When the Family Justice Review was launched in 2011, the average duration for the disposal of a care and supervision application was 56 weeks. The revised PLO was phased in between July and October 2013 following a year-long pilot in the tri-borough authorities in London. Since then there has been a significant reduction in the duration of care proceedings with the average (at the time of writing) being around 27 weeks. There is some recent evidence to suggest that this has been achieved without delay being moved to the pre- or post-court period, although this finding needs to be considered in the context of how cases are being managed by local authorities before formal proceedings are issued or during the pre-proceedings stage of the PLO. Details: Feethams, Darlington: UK Department of Education, 2017. 113p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 6, 2017 at: http://cdn.basw.co.uk/upload/basw_44328-4.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://cdn.basw.co.uk/upload/basw_44328-4.pdf Shelf Number: 145942 Keywords: Child Abuse and Neglect Child Maltreatment Child Protection Child Residential Care |
Author: Parkinson, Patrick Title: Assessing the different dimensions and degrees of risk of child sexual abuse in institutions Summary: The purpose of this research was to establish a means of differentiating between types of institutions in terms of level of risk of child sexual abuse according to the characteristics of the institution and the kinds of activities that it organises. It draws on the existing research concerning risk factors in relation to child sexual abuse and examines how these risk factors might operate cumulatively in the context of institutions. It examines to what extent various risk factors might be clustered more within some institutions or activities than other institutions or activities. Some of the groundwork for this has been laid by the research literature on situational risk. This research report goes beyond this, however, to explore how the existing body of research on individualised risk factors for victimisation and for offending might be applied to the task of identifying greater or lesser risks of child sexual abuse in institutional contexts. In considering these issues, a distinction is drawn, where appropriate, between adult-child abuse and child-to-child abuse since the way in which the risk factors for each are clustered in institutions is, to some extent, different. Research questions The research questions are as follows: 1. What are the essential components in an effective typology of risk of child sexual abuse in institutional settings? 2. How should these components be represented in a typology (single-risk continuum; low-high; two-dimensional quadrant approach; other) 3. How should the components be measured and applied in institutions within the Royal Commission's Terms of Reference? These questions are answered by seeking to identify which institutions and activities may constitute more risky environments for child sexual abuse than others. This involves working out, as far as possible, where individual vulnerabilities may be clustered (for example, services for abused or neglected children). This includes discerning where there is heightened situational risk and vulnerability risk, where propensity risk might be disproportionately clustered, and where institutional risk creates a culture in which, even if child sexual abuse is disclosed, it is unlikely to lead to a strong disciplinary response. Details: Sydney: Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, 2017. 110p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 20, 2017 at: http://apo.org.au/system/files/95176/apo-nid95176-315456.pdf Year: 2017 Country: Australia URL: http://apo.org.au/system/files/95176/apo-nid95176-315456.pdf Shelf Number: 146303 Keywords: Child Residential CareChild Sexual Abuse |