A Crying Shame - A report by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner into vulnerable babies in England
Year: 2018
Topic: Adoption, Child protection, Corporate parenting, Emotional abuse, Foster care, Health and Wellbeing, Kinship care, Local authority, Neglect, Physical abuse
Author: Children's Commissioner for England
Topic: Adoption, Child protection, Corporate parenting, Emotional abuse, Foster care, Health and Wellbeing, Kinship care, Local authority, Neglect, Physical abuse
Author: Children's Commissioner for England
This report by the Children’s Commissioner’s Office for England uses local authority data from March 2017 to estimate how many children under the age of five are at risk of severe harm, with a focus on babies under the age of one. The data reports the number of babies and children identified as being ‘in need’ who were not looked after by the authorities, placed under special arrangements, or adopted after concerns were raised.
An accompanying report, Estimating the number of vulnerable babies, explains the methodology used to create the report and analyses the sources and quality of the available data.