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Posts Tagged ‘child protection’

Child protection services ‘strong’ in Hackney despite ‘workforce challenges’, Ofsted finds

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 9 November 2022 at 19:14
Hackney Town Hall

Children’s social care chief ‘very pleased’ that inspectors recognised council’s ‘effective support’

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Voice of children being ‘stifled’ during pandemic, council warns

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 28 May 2020 at 20:18
Photograph: Tom Hull

Leading officers speak of concerns about the lack of coverage of young people’s experiences of lockdown

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Significant fall in child protection enquiries of ‘particular concern’, says council

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 21 May 2020 at 18:20
Hackney Town Hall

Head of safeguarding says drop largely down to fall in referrals from schools, with children ‘less visible to professionals’ during lockdown

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Hackney social services condemned over failures after mother kills children

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 11 December 2012 at 09:42

Coroner criticises staff who allowed woman suffering from paranoid schizophrenia unsupervised overnight visits

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How Hackney reclaimed child protection social work

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 9 November 2011 at 13:36
Hackney Town Hall. Photograph: Hackney Citizen

Is a model of social work that radically transformed child protection in one borough about to go mainstream?

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The buck has to stop with Sharon Shoesmith

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 28 May 2011 at 18:04
Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington

There is no point making scapegoats of frontline staff. A case such as Baby P’s requires top managers to take responsibility

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Baby X – review

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 20 March 2010 at 20:59

A behind-the-scenes account of the work of Hackney’s Child Protection Team

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