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Posts Tagged: child protection

Robert Halfon: Sex offenders are slipping through the net. They must be stopped.

There are significant loopholes in our safeguarding measures that are entirely preventable, but potentially disastrous.

By Robert Halfon MP | 9 October 2019 | 7 comments

David Burrowes and Nickie Aiken: Coming to you soon. The family hubs revolution.

This week’s National Family Hubs Fair and Conference brought together around 50 organisations that are committed to supporting families.

By David Burrowes and Nickie Aiken | 16 February 2019 | 27 comments

Robert Halfon: Excluded children should be safe and secure – not left vulnerable on our streets.

With gangs on our streets and knives in our schools, this is too big a societal issue to look at purely through the lens of our education system.

By Robert Halfon MP | 30 January 2019 | 4 comments

Matt Hancock: This tech revolution is a Tory revolution

Yet embracing change doesn’t mean blinkered acceptance. It is a core Conservative belief that robust rules are needed to ensure one person’s freedom doesn’t trample that of others.

By Matt Hancock MP | 4 December 2017 | 13 comments

Ideas for the Budget 3) Fiona Bruce: It should start to reduce the huge costs of family breakdown

The Chancellor should commit to a Family Services Transformation Fund of £100 million over four years to help relationship support and post-separation support.

By Fiona Bruce MP | 8 November 2017 | 40 comments

Andrew Wood: Tower Hamlets Council must put the interests of children ahead of political correctness

English law is clear on how foster placements should be made and that “the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration”.

By Andrew Wood | 8 September 2017 | 7 comments

Zehra Zaidi: As a Muslim woman activist, I will speak out about some Pakistani men and child abuse

By discussing a sensitive topic in Muslim communities, you do not give oxygen to racists. You cut off their supply.

By Zehra Zaidi | 19 August 2017 | 83 comments

Cooper’s anger over unaccompanied child refugees should be targeted at Paris, Rome and Athens, not the Home Office

If we prioritise rescuing children from the incompetence of EU governments, that means children can be rescued from the slaughter of the Middle East.

By Mark Wallace | 9 February 2017 | 82 comments

Stella Creasy: Labour and Conservative MPs must work together to ensure that children learn about sexual consent

Of course we battle over our competing visions of Britain. But on something this important we should co-operate.

By Stella Creasy MP | 24 January 2017 | 41 comments

The child abuse inquiry has become unworkable. The only practical solution is to pull it.

The Emmerson row is the straw on the back of this exhausted camel.

By Paul Goodman | 29 September 2016 | 23 comments

Ruth Davidson: The Scottish Government must think again on its flawed Named Persons scheme

When the SNP had a majority they could push through bad laws like this – but now, as a minority administration, they must learn to listen.

By Ruth Davidson MSP | 7 June 2016 | 17 comments

Judy Terry: Will social workers finally be held accountable?

Too often local authority children’s services are dysfunctional – a lead professional needs to take responsibility when failures occur.

By Judy Terry | 27 January 2016 | 10 comments

Judy Terry: Social workers should not sneer at the middle classes

Coping with disabled children is still a struggle even if you have money.

By Judy Terry | 14 December 2015 | 10 comments

The Government has failed on adoption

More children are stuck in care than when David Cameron became Prime Minister.

By Harry Phibbs | 12 October 2015 | 7 comments

The underlying truth about the Rotherham abuse scandal

Time and time again we’ve seen abusers operate in plain sight and yet each time we claim to be shocked.

By Peter Franklin | 11 September 2014 | 54 comments

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