by David Niven | Oct 9, 2013 | Child Abuse, Children & Social Care, Social Media, Social Work
Media & care of the elderly Several things today caught my attention. I had been contacted to do some media interviews about Tracey Connelly being recommended for release by the parole board, ruling that she’s no longer a danger. The source of the media request...
by David Niven | Oct 7, 2013 | Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Social Work, Training
Children in court The judicial system in this country is in serious need of an overhaul, especially where children are the witnesses. The NSPCC published research to show that last year in England and Wales there were 23,000 reported cases of child sexual abuse and...
by David Niven | Oct 4, 2013 | Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, Media, Social Work, Training
Children and social workers I have done many radio interviews and some television over the last few days about the terrible tragedies of children who have died at the hands of their parents and nothing takes away the question ‘could any more have been done?’. Every...
by David Niven | Sep 30, 2013 | Child Abuse, Children, Media, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence
Sexual offences are not being prosecuted It’s come to light today that there have been at least 1,500 people cautioned for sex offences across England in the last year. This is going to be featured tonight on BBC Inside Out East Midlands, presented by Mary Rhodes. Now...
by David Niven | Sep 27, 2013 | Child Abuse, Children, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence
Sexual Exploitation 16 years ago a lot of us put a great deal of work into what became the 1997 Sexual Offences Act which has now been modified by the 2003 Act. This had two principle parts to it. The first was the creation of the register of sex offenders which has...
by David Niven | Sep 25, 2013 | Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, Social Work
Child Protection Very interesting article in the Guardian online Social Care Network by Nushra Mansuri BASW’s professional officer – here – all about the recent ruling by Lord Justice Munby allowing a father to post a video of social workers...
