"FIFTY YEARS" SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS IN CHILD CARE

(with particular relevance to child abuse)

POLICY AND PRACTICE

BARBARA KAHAN OBE

1945

Report of Sir Walter Monckton QC on the death of a foster child Dennis O'Neill (Shropshire)

1946

Report of the Care of Children Committee (Curtis Report)

1948

Children Act

1950

Children Neglected and Ill treated in their own home Joint Circular Home Office, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education

1952

Children & Young Persons (Amendment) Act

1961

Symposium at American Academy of Paediatrics conducted by Dr C. Henry Kempe on the "Battered Child Syndrome"

1963

Children & Young Persons Act

1968

"The Battered Child" edited by Ray E. Helfer and C. Henry Kempe - University of Chicago Press Chicago and London

1968

"The Hothouse Society" Royston Lambert (a study of boarding school life)

1969

"Residential; Care - Castle Priory Report (published by professional child care associations)

1969

Children & Young Persons Act

1970

Local Authority Social Services Act (implementation of the Seebohm report)

1971

"Spare the Child" David Wills (Cotswold Community)

1971

Care and treatment in a Planned Environment - Report of the Community Homes Project - Home Office Children's Department

1973

Committee of Inquiry into the death of Graham Baynall (Shropshire)

1974

Committee of Inquiry into the death of Maria Colwell (East Sussex)

1975

Committee of Inquiry - Stephen Meurs (Norfolk)

1975

Committee of Inquiry - John Auckland

1975

Committee of Inquiry - Lisa Godfrey (Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham)

1975

Committee of Inquiry - Richard Clark

1976

Committee of Inquiry - Neil Howlett

1977

Committee of Inquiry - Wayne Brewster (Somerset)

1978

Committee of Inquiry - Karen Spencer (Derbyshire)

1978

Committee of Inquiry - Stephen Menhenniott

1979

Committee of Inquiry - Darryn Clarke

1979

Committee of Inquiry - Lester Chapman (Berkshire & Hampshire)

1981

Committee of Inquiry - Maria Mehmedazi (Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham)

1982

Committee of Inquiry - Lucy Oates (Bexley)

1984

Report of Inquiry - Jasmine Beckford (London Borough of Brent)

1985

Kincora Inquiry - Northern Ireland

1986

Draft guidance on "Working Together" DHSS

1987

Report of Inquiry Kimberly Carlisle (London Borough of Greenwich)

1987

Report of Inquiry - T.Henry (London Borough of Lambeth)

1987

Report of Inquiry into Child Abuse in Cleveland. Chair Rt.Hon.Lord Justice Butler-Sloss

1988

"Working Together" DHSS

1989

Castle Hill School Investigation (Shropshire)

1989

Crookham Court School Investigation (Berkshire)

1989

Children Act (to be implemented in 1991)

1989

Publication of updated "Working Together"

1990

"Child Pornography - An investigation Tim Tate (Methuen)

1990/91

Publication of Children Act 1989 Regulations and Guidance

Volume 4 - Residential Care

Volume 5 - Independent Schools

1991

The Pindown Experience and the Protection of Children - Alan Levy QC and Barbara Kahan (Staffordshire)

1991

Child Abuse - A Study of Inquiry Reports 1980-1989 Department of Health

1991

"What we know and don't know" - Residential Care for Children - Roger Bullock, Dartington Social Research Unit

1991

Ty Mawr Community Home Inquiry - Gareth Williams QC and John Mcready

1991

The Right to Complain - Practice Guidance on Complaints, Department of Health

1991

Working with Child Sexual Abuse - Guidance for Trainers and Managers in SSDs Department of Health

1991

Children in the Public Care - Sir William Utting (Response to Pindown)

1991

Reviews of Children's Homes in Scotland (Response to Pindown)

1991/92

Investigation concerning St.Charles Youth Treatment Centre SSI Department of Health

1992

The Leicestershire Inquiry - Andrew Kirkwood QC

1992

"Choosing with Care" Report of the Warner Committee on Staff Selection

1992

A Review of Malcolm Thompson's Employment for the Sheffield City Council 1977

1992

Inquiry into Suicides in Feltham - Chair Anthony Scrivenor QC

1993

Evaluating Performance in Child Protection - Social Services Practice and Systems, SSI and Department of Health

1993

"Not Just a Name" The Views of Young People in Foster and Residential Care - National Consumer Council

1993

Report of Inspection of the Youth Treatment Service - SSI/Department of Health

1993

"A Place Apart" - An investigation into the handling and outcomes of serious injuries to children and other matters at Aycliffe Centre for Children, County Durham SSI/Department of Health

1993

Residential Care for Children - A Review of the Research, Department of Health

1994

Multiple abuse in Nursery Classes - Inquiry in Newcastle Upon Tyne

1994

"Growing up in Groups" Barbara Kahan HMSO

1994/95

"Banged Up, Beaten Up, Cutting Up" - Violence in Penal Institutions for Teenagers under 18 - Helena Kennedy QC

 

Undated, Working with Child Sexual abuse - Guidelines for Training Social Services Staff - training and support Programme (Child Care) Department of Health

1995

"Child Abuse in Wales" Miss Nicola Davies QC

1995

Inquiry in the Management of Child Care in Islington, Ian White CBE and Kate Hart

1997

"People Like Us" Sir William Utting (Children's Safeguards Review)

1998

Abuse in Early Years - Report of the Independent Complaints Review Team on Shieldfield Day Nursery and Related Matters - Newcastle Upon Tyne

 

National Children's Bureau Highlights (Research and Practice) summaries of child care matters include:

1973

No.7 Non-accidental injuries in children

1982

No.50 Child Sexual Abuse and Incest

1988

No.80 Child Abuse

1993

No.119 Child Sexual Abuse

1995

Nos.113&134 Introduction to Residential Child Care Parts I and II

1998

No.159 Child Abuse and Child Protection in Residential Care

 

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