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 10, 2014 | Children, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) recently presented findings from reviews of two Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) which is a community based initiative aimed to prevent further offending by convicted offenders. These are called core members...
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,...
by David Niven | Mar 24, 2014 | Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, Mental Health, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Social Work
Guest blog by Jane Evans For too many years myths have existed about how children, especially young ones, are affected by living with chaos, fear and unpredictability in their home life. “They were young they will get over it”...
