External Publications
Safeguarding Homeless Families; national guidance by the Queens Nursing Institute

Safeguarding children and families who are experiencing homelessness: a tool for practitioners to identify needs interventions and solutions. This guidance paper has been produced to help practitioners identify the needs [...]

VCF welcomes changes to public and private law to improve experience for children and families
FJR

03 Nov 2011: The Family Justice Review panel announced a package of recommendations aimed at tackling delays in the family justice system and to make sure that children and families [...]

Government delivers its response to the Munro Review of Child Protection; a child-centred system
Victoria Climbié Final Memorial Lecture

Government Response to the Munro Review of Child Protection The Government has published its response to the Munro Review of Child Protection, which was informed by an Implementation Working Group. [...]

Exploring issues of witchcraft & spirit possession in London’s African communities
Evaluation report cover

Witchcraft and Spirit Possession in Child Protection – A Community Perspective by VCF The impact of globalisation in some African countries has driven people toward financial achievements. Everywhere is competing [...]

Surveillance and Child Protection: De-mystifying the Trojan Horse

Lynne Wrennall This paper belongs to an embryonic body of scholarship that documents the camouflaging of political, economic and social agendas under the rhetoric of Child Protection. The Trojan Horse [...]

Safeguarding children controlled through belief in ritual oaths…

Safeguarding children controlled through belief in ritual oaths, ‘child witches’ or religious and traditional practices ECPAT UK (2009) Research and professionals’ experience in the UK shows that child victims of [...]

Dispatches: The Children Britain Betrayed

Dispatches carried out a six-month investigation into children killed by parents across Britain over the past five years – with a view to learning the lessons for prevention. The team [...]