November 2015 as Assessment pathway to accessing Framework (CAF); services for families; Baby V was not breathing. Parents adults' accounts were and all agencies to consider had been drinking accepted without information on fathers and heavily. Both parents reference to other other significant males pleaded guilty to available information during assessments. child neglect and received a custodial sentence. Overview report can be found at: 5 02/16 11/13 Thurrock Chronic neglect of a Megan and her sibling spent lack of effective information Adolescents Megan 17-year-old girl who periods subject to child sharing and analysis Neglect was admitted to protection plans because of lack of professional Impact intensive care after physical abuse and neglect understanding of adolescent Information sharing collapsing at home and as Children in Need. neglect; Family issues included: lack of professional chronic neglect, domestic consideration of Megan’s violence, housing eviction, lived experience poor home conditions and professional focus on the financial problems. level of service provided to the family as opposed to the impact of services. Overview report can be found at: 6 02/16 - Oxford Murder of a Child J was often local safeguarding children adolescents; Child J female by her viewed as board (LSCB) and Community murder; “difficult” partner who and not as a child in Safety Partnership to act as a domestic abuse; received a life need of safeguarding; strategic lead on domestic risk assessment; sentence in 2014. processes and abuse to ensure a unified Child J had recently procedures for approach to young victims told her ex-partner victims of and/or perpetrators; relationships she thought she was domestic abuse were schools to cover healthy missing still under relationships in the context pregnant with his child, resulting in development; of domestic abuse; him threatening her.
November 2015 as Baby V was not breathing. Parents had been drinking heavily. Both parents pleaded guilty to child neglect and received a custodial sentence. Assessment Framework (CAF); adults' accounts were accepted without reference to other available information pathway to accessing services for families; and all agencies to consider information on fathers and other significant males during assessments. Overview report can be found at: 5 02/16 11/13 Thurrock Megan Chronic neglect of a 17-year-old girl who was admitted to intensive care after collapsing at home Megan and her sibling spent periods subject to child protection plans because of physical abuse and neglect and as Children in Need. Family issues included: chronic neglect, domestic violence, housing eviction, poor home conditions and financial problems. lack of effective information sharing and analysis lack of professional understanding of adolescent neglect; lack of professional consideration of Megan’s lived experience professional focus on the level of service provided to the family as opposed to the impact of services. Adolescents Neglect Impact Information sharing Overview report can be found at: 6 02/16 - Oxford Child J Murder of a female by her who received a life sentence in 2014. Child J had recently told her ex-partner she thought she was pregnant with his child, resulting in him threatening her. Child J was often viewed as “difficult” and not as a child in need of safeguarding; processes and procedures for victims of domestic abuse were still under development; local safeguarding children board (LSCB) and Community Safety Partnership to act as a strategic lead on domestic abuse to ensure a unified approach to young victims and/or perpetrators; schools to cover healthy relationships in the context of domestic abuse; adolescents; murder; domestic abuse; risk assessment; relationships missing partner
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