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RE: Family courts access plan brings bullying fear

Journalists who believe that their presence in court is a guarantee of justice need to reflect on all the sad cases where parents have been wrongly convicted of murder of their children in the criminal courts which are open to the press and public. And we all need to take the warning of this research very seriously indeed. It should be obvious ...

Posted to The CYPNow forum (Forum) by Chris Mills on 01-27-2010
RE: Sixty sex offences a day reported against under-18s last year

"An NSPCC spokeswoman said the figures would include instances of sex between consenting under-16s because underage sex is an offence." Without knowing the proportion of offences of "consenting" sex between under 16 year olds, it is difficult to place much interpretation on these figures. A much fuller breakdown of these ...

Posted to The CYPNow forum (Forum) by Chris Mills on 01-26-2010
RE: The 2010 Report: The year ahead for children and young people

John Coughlan is so wrong to conclude that "the intellectual and moral arguments have been made and won for a more fluent and proactive approach to information sharing for children". He seems to forget that both opposition parties are implacably opposed to ContactPoint. And he ignores the rising tide of public revulsion at the ...

Posted to The CYPNow forum (Forum) by Chris Mills on 01-13-2010
RE: News Insight: Joint working - New laws face the human rights test

Plans to open the family courts to the media are proceeding without due regard to the rights and interests of children and young people. Ann Haigh is 100% right to draw attention to the "life-long implications" of allowing the press to see expert's reports. The potential damage that can be done to a child or young person if highly ...

Posted to The CYPNow forum (Forum) by Chris Mills on 01-13-2010
RE: Safeguarding unit to improve serious case review work

"how serious case reviews can result in more effective learning" Ends-means displacement here. The question which needs to be asked is "what are the best ways of learning in child protection". SCRs may be an answer, but I can think of many better ways. "revising the current set of safeguarding performance indicators in ...

Posted to The CYPNow forum (Forum) by Chris Mills on 12-22-2009
RE: Government warned to keep 'hands off' social work college

Registering the college as a charity would provide considerable protection of its independence. The chariity's objects should be framed around the promoting social work knowledge and standards of good practice. I have no problem with the government providing start-up funding in the form of a one-off grant, but it must be without strings. Sadly ...

Posted to The CYPNow forum (Forum) by Chris Mills on 12-17-2009
RE: Court reporting plans could threaten children's privacy

"Under these changes we could see very personal details of vulnerable children and adults published in local and national newspapers and online." It is disgraceful that these proposals are being rushed through without due regard to the privacy of children and young people who through no fault of their own find themselves the subjects of ...

Posted to The CYPNow forum (Forum) by Chris Mills on 12-04-2009
Re: RE: Taskforce defends decision not to cap social work caseloads

Louise and Charlotte are correct to point out that the complexity of cases has to be taken into account. That's why I said an upper limit of 10. In the wake of the Baby Peter revelations last year I have heard talk of social workers with caseloads in the high teens and twenties where the children are subject to child protection plans. ...

Posted to The CYPNow forum (Forum) by Chris Mills on 12-03-2009
RE: Taskforce defends decision not to cap social work caseloads

"A cap on caseloads"? This is the elephant in the room. There's no point in talking about lofty ideals such as a national college, probationary years and licensing if people doing the work continue to be chronically over-loaded and systematically over-worked. In my view 10 active child protection cases is an upper limit - and that's only ...

Posted to The CYPNow forum (Forum) by Chris Mills on 12-01-2009
RE: Early ContactPoint adopters report positive outcomes

The first thing which roused my suspicions about this new "report" is that there seemed to be nothing negative in it at all. I have never known a major IT project which did not have some significant problems at the implementation stage. ContactPoint it seems is unique. I was also a bit alarmed by the cheesy quotes from various ...

Posted to The CYPNow forum (Forum) by Chris Mills on 11-16-2009

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