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	Issue:  Volume 27 Issue 1, 2018 Editorial: Addressing the Disconnects in Child Protection Practice Featured in this issue: Serious Case Reviews Historic child abuse investigations Reporting sexual abuse in religious settings Community-based pre-birth assessment Peer-on-peer abuse and exploitation Understanding and tackling neglect
	Themed Issue:  Volume 26 Issue 6, 2017 Editorial: Physical Abuse of Children Featured in this issue: Physical abuse risk in child and adolescent psychiatry Child protection social workers and assessing childhood bruising Paediatricians’ reporting and training needs Disclosure of child physical abuse Reducing the incidence of non-accidental head injuries in infants

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Original Article: Assessing Parental Capacity when there are Concerns about an Unborn Child: Pre-Birth Assessment Guidance and Practice in England

Authors: Clare J. Lushey, Jane Barlow, Gwynne Rayns and Harriet Ward

First published online: 29 NOV 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/car.2496

• Existing guidance regarding pre-birth assessment are inadequate with regards to providing practitioners with the necessary information about the assessment process or tools with which to undertake the assessment.
• Practitioners undertaking pre-birth assessment should be provided with better training regarding the assessment process.
• There is a need for practitioners undertaking pre-birth assessment to use standardised tools alongside professional judgement.

 

Original Article: Assessing Capacity to Change in High-Risk Pregnant Women

Authors: Paul H. Harnett, Jane Barlow, Chris Coe, Caroline Newbold and Sharon Dawe

First published online: 3 OCT 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/car.2491

• The current project found that a community-based pre-birth assessment and care pathway with high-risk pregnant women was feasible and acceptable for practitioners and service users.
• The pathway began mid-pregnancy and support was provided following the birth of the infant for up to 12 months.
• Over 40 per cent of infants whose mothers were allocated to the pre-birth risk assessment pathway showed improvements in child safeguarding status at 12 months.

 

Short Report: A Qualitative Evaluation of Community Nurses’ Experiences of Child Safeguarding Supervision

Authors: Moira Little, Tracey Baker and Annette M. Jinks

First published online: 27 SEP 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/car.2493

• Safeguarding supervision was viewed as a child-focused, helpful activity that has led to practice improvements.
• Negative comments were in the minority and related to perceptions of its intrusive and punitive nature, the time involved and competing priorities.
• Improvements advocated were that safeguarding supervision should include discussion about children whose care is problematic but who are not subject to formal child protection proceedings.

 

Original Article: Academic Disputes about Adult-Child Sexual Contact: A Critical Realist Appraisal

Author: David Pilgrim

First published online: 12 SEP 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/car.2497

• A minority academic position is that adult-child sexual contact is usually harmless and ethically and psychologically warranted in society. Public and professional concern about the contact is depicted as a ‘moral panic’.
• The recent history of that minority position is examined and justifications from policy libertarians and pro-paedophile groups summarised.
• Using resources from the philosophy of critical realism, this position is critiqued for its unwarranted reliance on the assumption that adult-child sexual contact has become a moral panic.