Rise in Child Abuse Calls

Posted on | August 4, 2009 | No Comments

The NSPCC has seen a dramatic increase in calls about suspected child abuse since Baby P – referrals from the NSPCC to the police or social services are up by a third in two years. I was astonished to read that between April 2008 and March 2009 the NSPCC passed on 11,243 suspected child protection cases, up 3,063 on the previous year. Action in response was taken in 98% of those cases (although I would guess that in many of those cases ’action’ might be as limited as a quick house call and then NFA). But that is almost 1,000 cases per month that the NSPCC has taken seriously enough to pass on to the authorities and according to the information I have read a large proportion of those cases relate to children not otherwise known to social services – so children that had been falling through the net. Its good to hear that something positive has come from Baby P – perhaps people are feeling the weight of their own social responsibility more and making that call where in the past they might have just considered it someone else’s business. But it’s also frightening to think of the numbers of cases of unseen abuse and unprotected children that these statistics hint at.

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  1. rw
    August 29th, 2009 @ 10:57 pm

    This page about the NSPCC might interest you …

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  2. familoo
    September 6th, 2009 @ 8:39 pm

    Oh RW thanks SO MUCH for that interesting link. If you think I’m going to publicise that vile and probably libellous website you have another thing coming. Did you think I wouldn’t check the link?? Tsssk. Kisses Loo xxx

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