by David Niven | Oct 18, 2013 | Child Abuse, Children, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Training
Child Exploitation and Child Trafficking Listening to the counter child trafficking global online conference http://counterchildtrafficking.org/ that’s on it’s last day today has made me think of some of the acute challenges and terrible situations...
by David Niven | Oct 15, 2013 | Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Social Media
Abusive images of children In recent years so much anxiety has been created amongst parent groups by an upsurge in the advice given about recording significant parts of childhood. The premise for this was that no child should have their picture taken or video made of...
by David Niven | Oct 14, 2013 | Children, Children & Social Care, Mental Health, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence
I’d like to talk a little bit about the needs of disabled children who have, of course, exactly the same human rights to be safe from neglect and abuse and be protected from harm in the same way as their non disabled peers. We know that research has shown that...
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 | 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...
