BSCP2021-22/01
Published 04.09.24
This Child Safeguarding Practice Review focuses on a family in which systematic physical assaults were carried out by the parents against their eldest children over a seven year period. The family are of the Islamic faith and are of Ghanaian heritage and culture.
Disclosures of physical assault were made on four separate occasions which eventually resulted in the children being placed on Child Protection Plans. The parents removed their children from mainstream schooling, to provide home and tuition centre education.
Approximately three years later the eldest child disclosed physical assaults by the parents; medical examinations found scars consistent with regular beatings. Subsequently, all the children were placed in foster care and both parents were arrested and convicted of assault, ill-treatment, neglect and abandonment of the children.
- BSCP 2021-22/01 – Report
- BSCP 2021-22/01 – Press Statement
- BSCP 2021-22/01 – Briefing Note
- BSCP 2021-22/01 – PowerPoint Presentation
Webinar: “I was too frightened to tell anyone”: Recognising and responding to allegations of physical child abuse
Webinar programme:
- Welcome & Introduction – Graham Tilby, Co-Chair of Serious Cases Sub-Group
- Case Overview and Key Learning – Nicki-Walker-Hall, Lead Reviewer
- Presentation from AFRUCA Safeguarding Children; a charity that works to protect and promote the well-being of children in Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities – Deborah Bakare, Child Protection Service Team Leader, and Lauretta King-Webb, Social Worker
- Non-Accidental Injuries in Children – Dr Helen Morris, Consultant General Paediatrician & Designated Doctor for Child Safeguarding BSol ICB
- Q&A Session