Center for Child Protection

DECEMBER 13, 2024

As the holiday season approaches, it’s likely that your focus will be shifting towards family, traditions, and making lasting memories. Its also a time when busy schedules and gatherings can create unique challenges for keeping children safe. By planning ahead and staying mindful, you can ensure the season remains both joyful and secure for the children and teens in your life.

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Children’s Defense Fund

DECEMBER 13, 2024

By Marian Wright Edelman When poet, essayist, scholar, and activist Nikki Giovanni passed away on December 9, the world lost a singular voice. Young readers especially adored the dozen books she created for children, including beloved works like the Caldecott Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award-winning Rosa, illustrated by Bryan Collier. In a 2022 interview with the Washington Post, when asked what she believed the role of childrens literature was, she answered: Childrens literature is the f

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Community Care

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. A council is to vote on taking back control of children’s services from an external provider. Reading council’s policy committee will consider officers’ recommendation that it insource services from Brighter Futures for Children (BFfC), at a meeting on 18 December 2024.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Practitioners are struggling to respond to extrafamilial harm to children, with little evidence that interventions are keeping them safe, an analysis of serious case reviews has found. Social workers and multi-agency colleagues are failing to identify children at risk by not picking up on early indicators, such as missing episodes, said the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, in its 2

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