The NSPCC has published a report about children returning home from care.
The NSPCC has published a report about children returning home from care. Findings include: the most common outcome for children leaving care is to return home to a parent or relative, and around half of children who come into care because of abuse or neglect suffer further abuse if they return home. Recommendations include: publish data about the outcomes for children who return home from care, and improve the support available to children and families before and following a return home.
The Schizophrenia Bulletin has published an article about the relationship between experiences of child abuse and the development of psychotic symptoms or illness. The report found that childhood adversity is strongly related to increased risk for psychosis.
The Department of Health has published a guide to information sharing between agencies in domestic abuse cases. The report, which focuses on NHS Caldicott Guardians (senior staff members responsible for protecting patient information and enabling information sharing), outlines the principles which should be used to strike a balance between the service user’s confidentiality and wider considerations such as protection from harm.
A cross party inquiry into online child protection has found that children are easily accessing pornography and websites depicting extreme violence. Recommendations include: stronger filters of adult content, the appointment of an internet safety tsar, and the introduction of an opt in filter to access adult content.
Action for Children has published a report looking at the case for reforming the law on child neglect. Issues raised include the need to review the legal definition of neglect to take into account the fact that damage can be done to children unintentionally as well as “wilfully”, and to recognise children’s emotional as well as physical needs.
Ofsted has published a good practice example about developing good relationships between young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties and staff in a residential children’s home in order to prepare young care leavers for independence.
Summary: Research review looking at the types of therapy which are effective in helping children and young people who have been sexually abused. Looks at the evidence in relation to talking therapies (including counselling, Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), group therapy, Transactional analysis (TA) and Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)), and creative therapies (including play therapy, drama therapy and art therapy). Also considers the literature around the impact of sexual abuse on children; resilience factors; and what children and young people say about therapy. This report follows on from an earlier study which mapped the therapeutic services available in the UK for sexually abused children (Allnock et al, 2009).
