Noticing and Helping Neglected Children: Messages from Action on Neglect. (July 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Daniel, Brigid; Burgess, Cheryl; Whitfield, Erica; Derbyshire, David; Taylor, Julie; Appleton, Jane V.; Sidebotham, Peter
• Is Part Of: Child abuse review. Volume 23:Number 4(2014:Jul./Aug.)
• Page Start: 274
• Page End: 285
• Publication Date: 2014-07
• Subjects: Child abuse -- Periodicals; Child abuse -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Abused children -- Services for -- Periodicals; Abused children -- Services for -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 362.76
• DOI: 10.1002/car.2339
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0952-9136

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <sec id="car2339-sec-0001" sec-type="section"> <p>This paper sets out the messages from Action on Neglect, an Economic and Social Research Council Follow on Fund‐sponsored project which ran from April 2011 to the end of March 2012 in England. Undertaken by a small team of researchers and practitioners from the universities of Stirling and Dundee and the national charity Action for Children, it was a follow‐up to a literature review produced as part of the Safeguarding Children Across Services Research Initiative.</p> <p>The project team met with multidisciplinary groups of practitioners and managers from all key professions working with children in three areas of England on four occasions. The messages from the study were used to consider the extent to which current practice equates with evidence from the research. Through a process of co‐production, the project explored the ways in which neglected children are currently helped and considered what could be done to improve recognition and early response.</p> <boxed-text content-type="pullQuote" id="car2339-blk-0001" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"> <p>'The messages from the study were used to consider the extent to which current practice equates with evidence from the research'</p> </boxed-text> <p>The final product was a pack – Action on Neglect – that outlines a series of detailed worked examples setting out improved pathways to help for neglected children and their families. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.</p> </sec> <sec id="car2339-sec-0002" sec-type="section"> <title>Key Practitioner Messages</title> <p> <list id="car2339-list-0001" list-type="bullet"> <list-item id="car2339-li-0001"> <p>Practitioners can work together effectively to identify blocks to effective intervention and generate solutions.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="car2339-li-0002"> <p>The views of children and young people show that practitioners need to be aware of, and sensitive to, young people's feelings.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="car2339-li-0003"> <p>Practitioners need to become better at discerning which parents can use help on a voluntary basis and which cannot.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="car2339-li-0004"> <p>Children want to feel loved, but this love needs to be practically as well as emotionally expressed.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>