Over the Internet, Under the Radar : Prevention of Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation in Scotland

In early 2016 the Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice (CYCJ) facilitated two seminars for professionals from a wide range of backgrounds who encountered issues around adolescent risk taking behaviour online and e-safety. Anonymised cases relating to ‘sexting’, sexual exploitation online and downloading indecent images of children were discussed. These allowed the group to explore examples of good practice as well as identify some of the ‘pinch points’ in current processes and outline the gaps in professional knowledge and practice. Key findings included significant gaps in relation to policy, guidance, training and practitioner support that impacted on initial responses and decision making, when young people get into trouble through their online behaviour, and impaired high quality assessment and intervention. Cases involving online risk taking behaviour often raised issues around values and foregrounded complex ethical concerns. There were significant gaps in relation to research around higher tariff adolescent behaviours online

'Did not attends' in children 0-10: a scoping review

Patients who do not attend (‘DNA’) health appointments have been identified as a service problem incurring significant costs to the NHS. In order to explore the causes, effects and costs of child DNAs, we carried out a scoping study to map the literature and identify gaps in the research. Given the breadth of issues underpinning DNAs, a scoping study, including research studies, audits, policy documents and conference abstracts, was the most useful way to map the field. To foster public and patient participation, we sought advice from parents participating in the National Children's Bureau's Family Research Advisory Group. From a pool of 1997 items, we found few UK studies with non-attendance of 0–10 year olds as a primary focus, though many more incidentally reported DNA rates. Overall, four topics predominated: the conceptualization of DNAs; the correlates of non-attendance; initiatives to reduce non-attendance; and the relationship between non-attendance and safeguarding. The Family Research Advisory Group identified broadly similar issues, but with a stronger emphasis on communication and practical matters. While there may be circumstances where failing to attend appointments makes little or no difference to a child (or even benefits them) it is likely that there are children whose health or well-being are compromised as a result of failing to attend appointments. Both ‘over’ and ‘under'-attendance can be a source of anxiety to health professionals. Areas where further work is needed include robust evaluation of the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and maintenance of measures to reduce DNAs and a better understanding of the relationship of safeguarding to non-attendance

Promoting social inclusion A practice manual for community workers

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The facts of life The changing face of childhood

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Missing the target A report on the impact of the 1988 Social Security change on families using Barnardo's services

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Whose daughter next? Children abused through prostitution

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Right Fit Putting young people in the driving seat; an evaluation of the GlaxoSmithKline and Barnardo's health partnership with young people

An independent evaluation of the Right Fit initiative conducted by Resolve Consortium Ltd.Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:m02/17055 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

HIV/AIDS Telling the children

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I can't go back to mum and dad A report on the impact of social security changes on young people leaving care

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