by David Niven | May 22, 2014 | Child Abuse, Children, International, Media, Podcasts, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Social Media, Social Work
I highlight the future interviews scheduled for the programme including Dame Tessa Jowell. – Privatising child protection services – I reflect on the Children’s Minister Edward Timpson’s latest comments on the current issue about the...
by David Niven | May 14, 2014 | Child Abuse, Children, International, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence
Two stories in the news today bring home the good and the bad things that surround our children’s safety. Firstly, the police in Oxford announced that 50-60 young women had been further identified as victims of the paedophile ring that operated for 8 years in...
by David Niven | May 8, 2014 | Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, International, Podcasts, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Social Media, Social Work
Jim – “I have never ever met anybody in the safeguarding community who didn’t care about the people they were going in to protect” Jim Gamble brings over thirty years experience from the world of protective services and a strong reputation for...
by David Niven | Apr 28, 2014 | Child Abuse, Children, Media, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence
I remember in 1997 standing in Scotland Yard with the then head of the Paedophile Unit watching the arrival of a large furniture van filled with explicit material seized from just one house. He explained that tracking and catching paedophiles was – in his words...
by David Niven | Apr 24, 2014 | Bristol, Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, Conference, Mental Health, Podcasts, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Social Work
In conjunction with British Association of the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (BASPCAN) David Niven Associates (DNA) hosted This is my childhood; there will be no other. The conference tackled early intervention of the ‘toxic trio’ of...
by David Niven | Apr 8, 2014 | Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence
What exactly is emotional abuse? The proposal to consider making emotional abuse a criminal offence is probably a good idea. It’s always existed in child protection matters as an ‘add on’ as any child who’s been subject to physical,...
