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Title: Now You See It, Now You Don't: Why practitioners lose sight of neglect


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Now You See It, Now You Don'tWhy practitioners
lose sight of neglect
  • Patrick Ayre
  • Department of Applied Social Studies
  • University of Bedfordshire
  • Park Square, Luton
  • email pga_at_patrickayre.co.uk
  • web http//patrickayre.co.uk
  • tel 01234 309788

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Capturing chronic abuse
  • This presentation is based on analysis of
  • The reports of 17 interagency enquiries conducted
    in the UK between 2003 and 2007
  • Interviews with a sample of 25 experienced child
    welfare practitioners.

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Capturing chronic abuse
  • The recognition of chronic abuse is essential to
    safeguarding childrens welfare
  • Judgements subjective and prone to bias
  • Intangible Difficult to capture and compare
  • High threshold for recognition
  • Neglect is a pattern not an event

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The pattern of neglect
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The pattern of neglect
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The pattern of neglect
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The pattern of neglect
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The pattern of neglect
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What we found
  • Losing sight of the child
  • Accentuating the negative
  • Chronic abuse and the principle of cumulativeness

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Cumulativeness
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Failure of cumulativeness
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Whats the problem?
  • Chronic abuse and the principle of cumulativeness
  • Files very long and badly structured
  • Patterns missed and chronic abuse overlooked
  • The problem of proportionality
  • Acclimatisation

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Recommendations
  • Three strikes and youre in
  • A fresh pair of eyes for reviews
  • Cumulative front sheets on all files
  • Children, their needs, views and experiences made
    central to record formats
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