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🧵Our charity's name comes from Article 39 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This entitles all children to recover from abuse and other serious rights violations in environments which nurture their health, self-respect and dignity.
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The Home Secretary's pledge (on behalf of whole government) to strengthen reporting duties in respect of child sexual abuse and exploitation must be backed by significant resources and comprehensive arrangements to help children to *recover*.
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The risks of child sexual abuse and exploitation have consistently been part of our warnings about supported accommodation for children in care aged 16 & 17.
Children in these properties have no caregivers or consistent adult supervision.
Perpetrators know this.
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Children in these properties have no caregivers or consistent adult supervision.
Perpetrators know this.
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@uknewsmedia asked 152 English LAs for data on safeguarding concerns raised about children in care living in unregulated and/or unregistered accomm (anywhere in UK) Jan 2019-Dec 2020. Only 21 LAs gave full info. Showed high level of known/documented safeguarding concerns ⬇️
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We included this in our recent submission to Department for Education's consultation on care-less standards and three-yearly selective inspection of supported accommodation. We shared our own FOI research too.
Our warnings, and the warnings of others, made no difference.
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Our warnings, and the warnings of others, made no difference.
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