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 daveniven | Sep 17, 2013 | Children, Social Work
Daniel Pelka serious case review Today the Serious Case Review for Daniel Pelka was released and, as expected, all the questions were directed towards who is to blame for this and whom among the professionals fell down in their duty to protect this boy. I have no...
by daveniven | Sep 16, 2013 | Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, Social Work
Children I did an interview with BBC Radio Ulster this morning concerning the developing arrests and cases of child sex abuse occurring there at the moment and the conversation kept focussing on children in care homes (who did make up a great number of those young...
