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.

Source: DoH website 16 April 2012

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A cross party inquiry into online child protection

Posted on April 23, 2012 by CPTUKAdmin

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.

Source: BBC Online 18 April 2012

Further information:
Telegraph 18 April 2011

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Action for Children has published a report looking at the case for reforming the law on child neglect

Posted on April 23, 2012 by CPTUKAdmin

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.

Source: Action for Children 23 April 2012

Further information:
Keeping children safe: the case for reforming the law on child neglect. (PDF)

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Preparing young people who are looked after for independence in adulthood

Posted on April 23, 2012 by CPTUKAdmin

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.

Source: Ofsted Press Release 23 March 2012

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Preparing young people who are looked after for independence in adulthood: Libertas Children

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Therapeutic services for sexually abused children and young people: scoping the evidence base: summary report.

Posted on April 22, 2012 by CPTUKAdmin

Therapeutic services for sexually abused children and young people: scoping the evidence base: summary report.

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).

Publication details: [London]: NSPCC, 2012 pp 80

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Authors: Allnock, Debra, and Hynes, Patricia

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Adopted children and education: the experiences of a specialist CAMHS team.

Posted on April 22, 2012 by CPTUKAdmin

Adopted children and education: the experiences of a specialist CAMHS team.

Summary: Discusses the importance for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) practitioners to work closely with schools and adoptive parents to help adopted children manage their lives in school. Draws on clinical experience to describe some of the difficulties that arise for parents and children in managing the education system. Considers the impact of abuse and neglect on children and the impact of being separated from siblings.

Publication details: Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 pp 141-150

Authors: Barratt, Sara

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Preventive orientations in children’s centres: a study of centre managers.

Posted on April 22, 2012 by CPTUKAdmin

Preventive orientations in children’s centres: a study of centre managers.

Summary: Looks at the preventive approach of children’s centres and their managers. A qualitative study (interviews) was undertaken with twenty children’s centre managers in a rural local authority in England. Results showed that managers drew quite explicitly on the general concept of prevention in the conduct of their work. However, there were differences in those who emphasised universalism in the provision of services and those who saw the need to focus on higher levels of need.

Publication details: British Journal of Social Work Volume 42 Issue 2, 2012 pp 265-282

Authors: Sheppard, Michael

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Redefining family relationships following adoption: adoptive parents’ perspectives on the changing nature of kinship between adoptees and birth relatives.

Posted on April 22, 2012 by CPTUKAdmin

Redefining family relationships following adoption: adoptive parents’ perspectives on the changing nature of kinship between adoptees and birth relatives.

Summary: Draws on data from a series of biographical interviews with 22 parents and adopted children within the UK over a 24 year period, in order to explore post adoption family relationships from the perspective of adoptive parents. Discusses findings in relation to maintaining family ties between adoptees and their birth relatives, sources of fragility within family relationships following adoption, and supporting direct and mediated contact. Concludes that this study highlights the complexities involved in the reshaping of family relationships between adoptees and birth relatives following adoption and points towards a need for more proactive facilitation of post-adoption relationships by adoption support professionals. Recommends that where possible, formal contact arrangements should build on existing family practices if they are to be meaningful to those facing the challenge of ‘redrawing the boundaries of kinship’.

Publication details: British Journal of Social Work Volume 42 Issue 2, 2012 pp 283-299

Authors: Jones, Christine, and Hackett, Simon

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Marital conflict, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and allostatic load: interrelations and associations with the development of children’s externalizing behavior.

Posted on April 22, 2012 by CPTUKAdmin

Marital conflict, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and allostatic load: interrelations and associations with the development of children’s externalizing behavior.

Summary: Uses data relating to children’s respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA – the cyclical change in heart rate that occurs in correspondence with breathing rhythm) and their exposure to parental conflict to analyse how their bodies cope with heightened levels of stress. Focuses on two independent samples with repeated measures at ages 8,9,10 and 11. Also looks at the relationship between RSA and children’s externalising behaviour. Finds a negative relationship between boys’ initial resting RSA and externalising symptoms, with results for girls proving more mixed.

Publication details: Development and Psychopathology Volume 23 Issue 3, 2011 pp 815-829

Authors: El-Sheikh, Mona, and Hinnant, J. Benjamin

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Childhood maltreatment, adult attachment, and depression as predictors of parental self-efficacy in at-risk mothers.

Posted on April 22, 2012 by CPTUKAdmin

Childhood maltreatment, adult attachment, and depression as predictors of parental self-efficacy in at-risk mothers.

Summary: Examines the effects of childhood abuse on the attachment styles and mental health of mothers, in particular the relationship with depression. Emotional abuse was found to predict more anxious attachment and maternal depression.

Publication details: Journal of Aggression Maltreatment and Trauma Volume 20 Issue 6, 2011 pp 595-616

Authors: Caldwell, Jon G., et al.

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The Department of Health has published a guide to information sharing between agencies in domestic abuse cases

A cross party inquiry into online child protection

Action for Children has published a report looking at the case for reforming the law on child neglect

Preparing young people who are looked after for independence in adulthood

Therapeutic services for sexually abused children and young people: scoping the evidence base: summary report.

Adopted children and education: the experiences of a specialist CAMHS team.

Preventive orientations in children’s centres: a study of centre managers.

Redefining family relationships following adoption: adoptive parents’ perspectives on the changing nature of kinship between adoptees and birth relatives.

Marital conflict, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and allostatic load: interrelations and associations with the development of children’s externalizing behavior.

Childhood maltreatment, adult attachment, and depression as predictors of parental self-efficacy in at-risk mothers.

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