‘Farmed’ out to a white family, I became a skinhead: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on his first film
The actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje talks about growing up in Essex and joining a racist gang – a story now told in his directing debut, Farming
October 2014
Child witchcraft claims increasing as ‘hidden crime’ is investigated
Rise in cases of ritual child abuse linked to witchcraft beliefs reported, say police
October 2013
Response
ContactPoint: I wasn't wrong to switch off this flawed child register
Tim Loughton
Tim Loughton: Response: ContactPoint failed to protect our children – it prioritised data input over social work
September 2013
Daniel Pelka's horrendous death: the buck-passing must stop here
Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott: No senior managers accept responsibility for failing to protect Daniel – the lessons of Victoria Climbié haven't been learned
June 2013
Politicians who demand inquiries should be taken out and shot
Simon Jenkins
Simon Jenkins: From Stephen Lawrence to Bloody Sunday, an inquiry serves as the establishment's get out of jail free card
March 2012
Ritual abuse of children: a hidden and under-reported crime
Police in London have a special unit to probe this type of crime but believe they have only scratched the surface
January 2012
Why is child abuse tied to witchcraft on the rise?
Evidence is emerging that a growing number of children are being subjected to exorcism rituals. Louise Hunt finds out why
March 2010
Children's services are never infallible
Letters: The professional bodies embraced the system's audit culture, and seem to have no concern for the core skills required to engage with vulnerable or dysfunctional people
January 2010
How can a child be beaten to death, yet no one is jailed for murder?
A Metropolitan Police detective sergeant's account of his harrowing five years working for a child protection team is published this week
November 2009
Beyond the blame culture
Eileen Munro
Eileen Munro: When child protection fails, we need a system of accountability that asks not who, but why
September 2009
Let social workers fix families
Lola Okolosie
Lola Okolosie: At-risk children need frontline staff who are allowed to their jobs properly – something Martin Narey does not seem to understand
August 2009
Joe Public blog
Social worker shortage after Baby P puts children at risk
In the wake of the Baby Peter case, child protection referrals have shot up – but vilification of social workers means there are now far too few to handle the caseloads
June 2009
Joe Public blog
Let's get rid of social work's blame culture
Joe Public blog
Why frontline childcare workers are the unsung heroes
February 2009
Privately fostered children 'in danger'
Local authorities are failing to check the fostering arrangements of children who are being looked after by friends or family, says head of Ofsted
December 2008
Joe Public blog
Reforms have been imposed at the expense of protecting children
The overhaul of children's services that followed the Victoria Climbié case made child protection work even harder, says Liz Davies
November 2008
Officialdom cannot hammer straight the crooked timber of mankind
Simon Jenkins
Simon Jenkins: Social workers under the cosh of compliance culture have less time than ever to understand problem families
Mend broken homes to end tragedy
Iain Duncan Smith
Iain Duncan Smith: The terrible death of Baby P will lead to talk of social service reform, but dysfunctional family life lies at the heart of the problem
Learning the lessons, again
Editorial
Editorial: No adjective captures what every right-thinking person feels upon hearing the story of Baby P
