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Briefings and practice notes

A series of short research reviews and practice notes on our priority themes and related child protection, child abuse and safeguarding topics

Top four briefings Child neglect Disabled children and abuse Emotional abuse Physical abuse

Select a topic:

Overviews
Sexual abuse
Neglect, emotional and physical abuse
Vulnerable children
Child mental health
Current awareness
NSPCC practice

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Overviews

• Key facts about child maltreatment
  
  
• Prevalence and incidence of child abuse: international comparisons
  
  
• Child killings in England and Wales: explaining the statistics - NEW
  
  
• Family support

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Sexual abuse

• Adult sex offenders
  
  
• Children and young people disclosing sexual abuse
  
  
• Children and young people who display sexually harmful behaviour
  
  
• Guidelines for talking about safe and appropriate sexual behaviour
  
  
• Premature sexualisation: understanding the risks: outcomes of the NSPCC’s expert seminar series - NEW

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Neglect, emotional and physical abuse

• Child neglect
  
  
• Emotional abuse
  
  
• Fabricated or induced illness in children: a rare form of child abuse?  - NEW
  
  
• Physical abuse
  
  
• School bullying

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Vulnerable children

• Abuse of children in residential care
  
  
• An analysis of serious case reviews concerning children under one - NEW
  
  
• Disabled children and abuse
  
  
• Poverty and child maltreatment
  
  
• Therapeutic work with a blind child: an NSPCC practice note
  
  
• The prevalence of infant abuse and maltreatment related deaths in the UK

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Child mental health

• The impact of abuse and neglect on the health and mental health of children and young people
  
  
• Relationship between child maltreatment, sexual abuse and subsequent suicide attempts
  
  
• Young people who self-harm: implications for public health practitioners

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Current awareness

A series of briefings that summarise the findings of research and reports recently published by government and other organisations:

• Children’s views of the Family Justice Review and family court proceedings (OCC and Ofsted)
  
  
• Edging away from care: how services successfully prevent young people entering care (Ofsted)
  
  
• Effective relationships with vulnerable parents (Action for Children)
  
  
• Government's response to the Munro report (DfE)
  
  
• No excuses: a review of educational exclusion (Centre for Social Justice) - NEW
  
  
• Safeguarding children across services: messages from research (DfE and DH)
  
  
• Serious and fatal child maltreatment: setting serious case review data in context with other data on violent and maltreatment-related deaths in 2009-10 (DfE)  - NEW
  
  
• A study of recommendations arising from serious case reviews 2009-2010 (DfE)
  
  
• The voice of the child: learning lessons from serious case reviews (Ofsted) 

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NSPCC Practice

• NSPCC practice standards

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Contact the NSPCC Information Service for specialist information on any child protection topic

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