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Safeguarding in the workplace: what are the lessons to be learned from cases referred to the Independent Safeguarding Authority?

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Safeguarding in the workplace: what are the lessons to be learned from cases referred to the Independent Safeguarding Authority?
Summary: Research commissioned by the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA). The ISA was created under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (2006) to make independent decisions on whether to bar people from working with vulnerable adults and/or children. This research was undertaken to explore: the behaviours demonstrated by the referred individuals that led to their referral; the circumstances in terms of relationships, culture and policy within which the harm occurred and was reported; and actions taken by the employer leading up to and in response to those behaviours.
Publication details: Birmingham: Ecorys, 2012
Authors: McKenna, Katharine; Day, Laurie
Corporate authors: Independent Safeguarding Authority

Male circumcision and child safeguarding.

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Male circumcision and child safeguarding.
Summary: Considers ritual circumcision or non-therapeutic excision of the foreskin. Explores some of the reasons why the medical profession, the public, and even some religious organisations are increasingly turning away from this traditional practice, and why it is now considered by some to be a child safeguarding issue.
Publication details: BACCH News (June 2012) pp 14-15
Authors: Lempert, Antony D.

A review of the evidence on the relationship between gender and adolescents’ involvement in violent behaviour.

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A review of the evidence on the relationship between gender and adolescents’ involvement in violent behaviour.
Summary: Reviews literature published between 1990 and 2011 relating to adolescents’violent behaviour. Examines risk and protective factors associated with gender. Finds that although literature shows a relationship between gender and violent behaviour, with male adolescents more likely to be violent than their female peers, the link is mediated by other factors. Identifies community group as a key mediating factor. Suggests that longitudinal research into target communities should be undertaken before devising new prevention strategies.
Publication details: Aggression and Violent Behavior (Vol.17, Iss.4) July/August 2012 pp 297-310
Authors: Baxendale, Sarah; Cross, Donna; Johnston, Robyn

Psychological maltreatment in relation to substance use problem severity among youth.

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Psychological maltreatment in relation to substance use problem severity among youth.
Summary: Examines the relationship between childhood experiences of emotional abuse and emotional neglect and substance abuse as a young adult. Questions 216 young people entering an outpatient treatment programme for youth with substance use concerns. Finds that, when considering all forms of abuse, only emotional abuse and emotional neglect emerged as significant predictors of substance abuse problem severity.
Publication details: Child Abuse and Neglect (Vol.36, Iss.5) May 2012 pp 438-448
Authors: Rosenkranz, Susan E.; Muller, Robert T.; Henderson, Joanna L.

Physical and psychological maltreatment in childhood and later health problems in women

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Physical and psychological maltreatment in childhood and later health problems in women: an exploratory investigation of the roles of perceived stress and coping strategies.
Summary: Looks at how childhood experience of physical and emotional abuse affects women’s health in later life. Identifies stress and emotion-focused coping as effective mediating factors, and problem-focused and avoidance coping as ineffective. Suggests that the management of stress and the use of emotion-focused coping responses would be used with these women to mitigate physical health concerns.
Publication details: Child Abuse and Neglect (Vol.36, Iss.5) May 2012 pp 393-403
Authors: Hager, Alanna D.; Runtz, Marsha G.

Childhood trauma exposure in Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans: implications for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and adult functional support.

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Childhood trauma exposure in Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans: implications for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and adult functional support.
Summary: Studies the relationship between childhood exposure to trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in soldiers who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Finds that exposure to trauma in childhood is associated with PTSD symptoms in adulthood. Also identifies a link between the avoidance and numbing symptoms of childhood trauma based PTSD and a lowered ability to garner social support in adulthood.
Publication details: Child Abuse and Neglect (Vol.36, Iss.5) May 2012 pp 423-432
Authors: Van Voorhees, Elizabeth E.

A review of research on bullying and peer victimization in school: an ecological system analysis.

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A review of research on bullying and peer victimization in school: an ecological system analysis.
Summary: Uses Bronfenbrenner’s ecological framework to systematically examine risk factors associated with bullying related to the micro-, meso-,exo-,macro- and chronosystem levels. Considers theories explaining the relationship between different risk factors and bullying. Discusses current approaches to bullying prevention and intervention and future directions for research.
Publication details: Aggression and Violent Behavior (Vol.17, Iss.4) July/August 2012 pp 311-322
Authors: Sung Hong, Jun; Espelage, Dorothy L.
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A review of psychological factors relating to bullying victimization in schools.

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A review of psychological factors relating to bullying victimization in schools.
Summary: Reviews existing literature on how psychological factors affect the impact of bullying on school children. Focuses on: coping, social support, attachment, negative affectivity/neuroticism, and somatization. Suggests that further research into how personal factors influence the outcomes of bullying on different children is necessary.
Publication details: Aggression and Violent Behavior (Vol.17, Iss.4) July/August 2012 pp 383-387
Authors: Bitsch Hansen, Tine; Majlund Steenberg, Lone; Palic, Sabina; Elklit, Ask
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Joined-up child protection inspections must hold all agencies to account, warns LGA

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Joined-up child protection inspections must hold all agencies to account, warns LGA

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for clarity over how agencies, including the police, will be held to account as part of Ofsted’s proposed multi-agency child protection inspections.

Under the watchdog’s plans for the no-notice checks, due to come into force from June 2013, inspections will scrutinise the work of local services including social care, health, education, police, probation and the criminal justice system.

Inspectors will focus on how agencies work together to identify, help and protect children who may be at risk of harm and the two-week inspections will result in a single set of ratings for each local area.

Inspection teams will be led by Ofsted and include representatives from the Care Quality Commission, the police inspectorate, the probation inspectorate, the prisons inspectorate and the Crown Prosecution Service inspectorate.

David Simmonds, chair of the Local Government Association