Greville Ewan Janner,Baron Janner of Braunstone,was a British politician,barrister and writer. He became a Labour Party Member of Parliament for Leicester in the 1970 general election as a last-minute candidate,succeeding his father. He was an MP until 1997,and then elevated to the House of Lords. Never a frontbencher,Janner was particularly known for his work on Select Committees;he chaired the Select Committee on Employment for a time. He was associated with a number of Jewish organisations including the Board of Deputies of British Jews,of which he was chairman from 1978 to 1984,and was later prominent in the field of education about the Holocaust.
A crossbencher is a minor party member of some legislatures,such as the British House of Lords and the Parliament of Australia. They take their name from the crossbenches,between and perpendicular to the government and opposition benches,where crossbenchers sit in the chamber.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is a British child protection charity founded as the Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (LSPCC) by Thomas Agnew on 19 April 1883. The NSPCC lobbies the government on issues relating to child welfare,and creates child abuse public awareness campaigns. Since the 1980s,the charity has had statutory powers allowing it to apply for help on behalf of children at risk. In the 1990s,the charity's publication,Satanic Indicators,fueled panic in social workers who went and accused parents and removed children from homes when they should not have. It operates a help line. The Paddington Bear character has partnered with the charity to raise funds for the charity. NSPCC operates telephone helplines.
Victoria Adjo Climbié was an eight-year-old Ivorian girl who was tortured and murdered by her great-aunt and her great-aunt's boyfriend. Her death led to a public inquiry,and produced major changes in child protection policies in the United Kingdom.
ContactPoint was a government database in England that provided a way for those working with children and young people to find out who else is working with the same child or young person,making it easier to deliver more coordinated support. It was created in response to the abuse and death of eight-year-old Victoria Climbiéin 2000 in England. Various agencies involved in her care had failed to prevent her death,in particular by individually never realising other agencies had been in contact with Victoria.
The Cleveland child abuse scandal is a wave of suspected child sexual abuse cases in 1987 in Cleveland,England,many of which were later discredited.
Dame Janet Hilary Smith,,styled The Rt Hon. Lady Justice Smith,is an English barrister and former High Court Judge and President of the Council of The Inns of Court. She was the judge who prepared The Shipman Inquiry and the Dame Janet Smith Review,.
Child protective services (CPS) is the name of an agency in many states of the United States responsible for providing child protection,which includes responding to reports of child abuse or neglect. Some states use other names,often attempting to reflect more family-centered practices,such as department of children and family services (DCFS). CPS is also sometimes known by the name of department of social services,though these terms more often have a broader meaning.
The Orkney child abuse scandal began on 27 February 1991,when social workers and police removed children—five boys and four girls,aged eight to fifteen and all from the families of English "incomers"—from their homes on the island of South Ronaldsay in Orkney,Scotland,because of allegations of child abuse. The children denied that any abuse had occurred,and medical examinations did not reveal any evidence of abuse.
The Children Act 2004 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The Office of theChildren's Commissioner for England is a non-departmental public body in England responsible for promoting and protecting the rights of children as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,as well as other human rights legislation,such as the Human Rights Act 1998. The Children's Commissioner was established under the Children Act 2004 to "represent the views and interests of children",and the office was further strengthened by the Children and Families Act 2014 providing a legal mandate to promote and protect the rights of children. According to the Commissioner's website,the role's purpose is to facilitate long-term improvements for all children,and in particular for the most vulnerable,and involves “being the eyes and ears of children within the system and the country as a whole",as well as acting with political independence from government,children's agencies and the voluntary and private sectors. The Children's Commissioner also has a duty to speak on behalf of all children in the United Kingdom on non-devolved issues,which include immigration,and youth justice in Wales.
Maria Ann Colwell was a British child who was killed by her stepfather in January 1973. The case was widely reported at the time and resulted in a public enquiry:Committee of Inquiry into the Care and Supervision Provided in Relation to Maria Colwell (1974). Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Care and Supervision provided by local authorities and other agencies in Relation to Maria Colwell and the co-ordination between them.
The timeline of children's rights in the United Kingdom includes a variety of events that are both political and grassroots in nature.
The Shipman Inquiry was the report produced by a British governmental investigation into the activities of general practitioner and serial killer Harold Shipman. Shipman was arrested in September 1998 and the inquiry commenced shortly after he was found guilty of 15 murders in January 2000. It released its findings in various stages,with its sixth and final report being released on 27 January 2005 –by which time Shipman had died by suicide in prison. It was chaired by Dame Janet Smith DBE.
Peter Connelly was a 17-month-old British boy who was killed in London in 2007 after suffering more than fifty injuries over an eight-month period,during which he was repeatedly seen by the London Borough of Haringey Children's services and National Health Service (NHS) health professionals. Baby P's real first name was revealed as "Peter" on the conclusion of a subsequent trial of Peter's mother's boyfriend on a charge of raping a two-year-old. His full identity was revealed when his killers were named after the expiry of a court anonymity order on 10 August 2009.
Forced adoption in Australia was the practice of taking babies from unmarried mothers,against their will,and placing them for adoption. In 2012 the Australian Senate Inquiry Report into Forced Adoption Practices found that babies were taken illegally by doctors,nurses,social workers and religious figures,sometimes with the assistance of adoption agencies or other authorities,and adopted to married couples. Some mothers were coerced,drugged and illegally had their consent taken. Many of these adoptions occurred after the mothers were sent away by their families 'due to the stigma associated with being pregnant and unmarried'. The removals occurred predominantly in the second half of the twentieth century. According to Sydney Morning Herald journalist,Marissa Calligeros,it was a practice which has been described as 'institutionalised baby farming'. In evidence given to the New South Wales Parliamentary Inquiry into Adoption,Centrecare's Chief Social Researcher was quoted as admitting to "a stolen white generation."
The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal consists of the organised child sexual abuse that occurred in the town of Rotherham,South Yorkshire,Northern England from the late 1980s until 2013 and the failure of local authorities to act on reports of the abuse throughout most of that period. Researcher Angie Heal,who was hired by local officials and warned them about child exploitation occurring between 2002 and 2007,has since described it as the "biggest child protection scandal in UK history",with one report estimating that 1,400 girls were abused by "grooming gangs". Evidence of the abuse was first noted in the early 1990s,when care home managers investigated reports that children in their care were being picked up by taxi drivers. From at least 2001,multiple reports passed names of alleged perpetrators,several from one family,to the police and Rotherham Council. The first group conviction took place in 2010,when five British-Pakistani men were convicted of sexual offences against girls aged 12–16. From January 2011 Andrew Norfolk of The Times pressed the issue,reporting in 2012 that the abuse in the town was widespread and that the police and council had known about it for over ten years.
Forced adoption is the practice of removing children permanently from their parents and the subsequent adoption of those children,following intervention by the Children's Services department of a Local Authority in the United Kingdom.
Public service interpreting in the UK is used by police,courts,immigration services,solicitors,local government,health providers and every other part of the public services that has a language need.
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was a six-year-old child living in the West Midlands,England who was abused and subsequently killed by his parents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The boy was mistreated over the course of several months by his father,Thomas Hughes,and his father's partner,Emma Tustin. This culminated on 17 June 2020 with Tustin killing Arthur via blunt force trauma to his head. Tustin and Thomas Hughes were convicted on murder and manslaughter charges,respectively,in December 2021.
