Research
In order to ensure that we are up-to-date and informed about the issues we deal with we intend to underpin all of our work with good quality research.
Although we already have anecdotal examples and evidence, due to the nature of case-specific work and its confidentiality we can't share all of that with you.
So this page is about about sharing our research projects and information that we find in the public domain to help you find out more about the issues we respresent.
in April 2016 we contacted the NSPCC research and library team in order to get some statistical information to help to focus our research and find out firstly what children and young people were saying. Knowing that the NSPCC manages the Childline service we decided to approach them first.
We stated to the NSPCC:
“We are focusing on:
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the impact on the accused child/young person
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Police procedures (PACE and otherwise)
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Lengths of pre-charge bail
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Impacts on the mental health of the child/young person – “victim/claimant”
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Impacts on the mental health of the child/young person – “accused/defendant”
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CHILDLINE – Is there any recording of the number of children who call asking for help because they have been accused of crime?”
Our over-all goal is to investigate the impact the cases have on the safeguarding of ALL children, whether they are a victim, accused, arrested, remanded, or even convicted (rightly or wrongly). Additionally not just the end result of the cases, but their journey through them, too.”