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A reading list of key publications on children with disabilities, one of the NSPCC's priorities.
Child protection and the needs and rights of disabled children and young people: a scoping study. Abridged report (PDF).
McArthur, Katherine, and Lerpiniere, Jennifer, and Lister, Pam Green, and Stalker, Kirsten
Glasgow: University of Strathclyde, 2010
ISBN: 9781900743341
Aims were to scope current knowledge about child protection and disabled children, to review current social policy and practice. This also involved getting disabled children's views about the child protection system. Illustrates where the child protection system is going wrong for disabled children in the UK, especially Scotland. Looks at whether different types of impairment are associated with specific types of abuse, whether disabled children were more likely to be abused, how demographic variables effect a children's vulnerability, what is known about the professional response to abused disabled children, and analysis of children protection policies across the UK .
Safeguarding disabled children: practice guidance (PDF).
Murray, Moira, and Osborne, Chris
Nottingham: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), 2009
ISBN: 9781847753854
Guidance aimed at police, teachers, social workers and health workers on how to best safeguard and promote the welfare of disabled children. Provides research and statistical evidence on the abuse of disabled children, and examines why disabled children are more vulnerable to abuse. Looks at the indicators of abuse, and the procedures for investigating allegations of abuse against disabled children. Provides a summary of legislation and policies relevant to protecting disabled children from abuse, and contains information about training and further resources.
Safe: personal safety skills for deaf children.
NSPCC
[London]: NSPCC, 2009
ISBN: 9781842280928
A personal safety skills programme for use with deaf children aged 7 and over, aimed at teachers and other professionals, designed to support school curriculum. Programme uses animations, games, role plays, feeling cards, storyboards and other resources to cover topics deaf children need to keep themselves safe and make informed choices. Topics covered include feelings, relationships, differences, bullying, growing up/sex education, indoor and outdoor personal safety, road safety, safety using internet and mobile phones and who to turn to. DVD-Rom requires Quicktime version 7.
Staying safe: action plan (PDF).
Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Nottingham: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), 2008
ISBN: 9781847751065
Sets out the government strategy to improve children and young people's safety. Focuses on three levels of safeguarding: universal safeguarding, working to keep all children and young people safe by creating safe environments; targeted safeguarding to reduce the risks of harm for vulnerable groups of children and young people; and responsive safeguarding, involving responding effectively when children are harmed. Includes details of how the plan will be monitored and evaluated .
Disabled children: numbers, characteristics and local service provision (PDF).
Mooney, Ann, and Owen, Charlie, and Statham, June
Thomas Coram Research Unit
London: Institute of Education, 2008
ISBN: 9781847751904
Presents findings from research which aimed, through the administration of a survey of all 150 Directors of Children's Services in England, to: analyse and report on how disability is defined and recorded; the prevalence, and characteristics, of children with disabilities; the services that are provided to them and the robustness of these data; and, to critically examine the difficulties that local authorities might encounter in providing these data and what may be done to resolve these difficulties.
Child abuse among children with disabilities: what we know and what we need to know.
Fisher, Marisa H., and Hidapp, Robert M., and Dykens, Elisabeth M.
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation 35 2008: 251-289
Discusses general definitional and methodological limitations, specific issues related to the abuse of children with disabilities, and efforts of child abuse researchers to overcome these limitations. Looks at the prevalence of maltreatment among children with disabilities and presents an ecological approach to child abuse, showing how certain societal, familial, parental, and child characteristics function to increase these disabled children's risk of abuse and neglect. Concludes by describing four research directions for better understanding of the abuse of children with disabilities.
Aiming high for disabled children: supporting families (PDF).
Majesty's Treasury; Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
London: Her Majesty's Treasury, 2007
ISBN: 9781845322625
Includes plans for Government action in three priority areas to improve outcomes for disabled children: access and empowerment; responsive services and timely support; and improving quality and capacity.
Bullying wrecks lives: the experiences of children and young people with a learning disability (PDF).
Mencap
London: Mencap, 2007
Produced as part of the Don't Stick It, Stop It anti-bullying campaign by Mencap, this report presents the findings of research into the bullying of children with a disability both in and out of school. Workshops were held in 46 schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 507 children aged between 8 and 19 years old took part in the workshops. The research found that 8 out of 10 of the children had been bullied and the bullying took place in a range of settings so that children felt unsafe outside of their homes. 6 out of 10 of the children had been physically hurt by bullies. Includes recommendations both for Government and for local action.
Safeguarding children: the second joint Chief Inspectors' Report on arrangements to safeguard children (PDF).
Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI); Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Court Administration (HMICA); The Healthcare Commission; Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC); Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP); Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP); Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI); OFSTED
London: Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), 2005
The Chief Inspectors second report on safeguarding children, which aims to identify what is working well and what improvements could be made in safeguarding children. Provides in-depth scrutiny of specific groups of children, including children with disabilities in educational settings, asylum seeking children and looked after children in out of area placements. Concludes that at a local level, the priority given to safeguarding children has increased in the three years and the status of work in child protection has improved. However, there are recurring themes which still give cause for concern.
Speaking out: a guide for advocates for children and young people with learning disabilities.
NSPCC; Voice UK
London: NSPCC, 2005
This booklet provides advice and information for advocates acting on behalf of young people with learning difficulties. It covers what advocacy is, being a good advocate, how to promote and defend young people's rights and being fair and equal.
It doesn't happen to disabled children: child protection and disabled children. Report of the National Working Group on Child Protection and Disability.
Morris, Jenny ed.
National Working Group on Child Protection and Disability
London: NSPCC, 2003
ISBN: 1842280406
Aims to promote the safeguarding of disabled children by identifying key areas of concern: disabled children and abuse; the child protection system and disabled children; child protection and disabled children at residential schools; child protection practice with disabled children; and, the criminal justice system and disabled children. May be reproduced for educational, training and other small-scale awareness raising activities.
Abuse and disabled children: hidden needs...?
Cooke, Pamela, and Standen, P. J.
Child Abuse Review 11(1), Jan/Feb 2002: 1-18
Reports on findings from information collected in regard to the identification of abuse of disabled children. Questionnaires were sent to the chairs of Area Child Protection Committees in the United Kingdom in order to establish practices in the recording of abuse of disabled children. Results indicate that the abuse of disabled children is less likely to be reported and disabled children are less likely to be put on the child protection register .
Freely view abstract or access full text by subscription: Child Abuse Review 11(1): 1-18
Maltreatment and disabilities: a population-based epidemiological study.
Sullivan, Patricia M., and Knutson, John F.
Child Abuse and Neglect 24(10), October 2000: 1257-1273
Research results suggest that children with disabilities are 3.4 times more likely to be maltreated than non-disabled peers .
Freely view abstract or access full text by subscription: Child Abuse and Neglect 24(10: 1257-1273
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