The Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
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2022
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Independent Inquiry of Child sexual abuse
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In spite of high levels of concern amongst professionals about how best to manage looked after sexually abused children and young abusers there has been little research on this subject. This study aimed to fill some of these gaps by examining how these children were managed in residential and foster care, the interventions and treatment provided for them, the mix of children within different settings and the steps taken to keep children safe from other residents and from adults. The fieldwork was conducted in two local authorities. The first phase of the study was a review of the casefiles of all the 250 children in the two authorities who had been newly looked after in a set time period (six months in the smaller authority and four months in the larger). Data on the children were collected so that the characteristics and care histories of the sexually abused/abusing children could be compared with those of the non-victimised children. In the second phase of the research a sub-sample of 40 sexually abused/abusing young people aged 10 or over was drawn, just over half of whom were in a variety of residential establishments with the remainder in foster care. Interviews were conducted with key residential workers or foster carers, social workers and with the young people themselves. In addition, a range of standardised measures relating to the young people's behaviour and well-being was used. (Author Abstract)
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child abuse, child protection, policy, , , research, International Resources, United Kingdom
Citation
Independent Inquiry of Child sexual abuse. (2022).
The Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.