What can the government do to make things run more efficiently on the front lines of child welfare?
A. The Government must carry through its commitment to keep every child safe from harm by fully funding and implementing real change nationally and locally. It needs to work with local agencies to get experienced professionals back into the workforce and restore public confidence in them. The challenge now is to equip front-line professionals, their managers and political leaders with the right skills and tools to protect England’s most vulnerable children, wherever they live. The system will not improve until we have enough resources to ensure all vulnerable children get the help they need. The NSPCC is calling on the UK Government to collect and publish annual data from police forces showing the number and ages of sex abuse victims and to link this with the number of convictions, and other penalties, resulting from the recorded offences. This data should form the basis of a better national strategy to prevent abuse and develop local services for sexually abused children. Q. What, in
