Annotated Bibliography on Safeguarding Vulnerable Children

This annotated bibliography provides a collection of articles on safeguarding vulnerable children, covering topics such as practice, process, positionality, and the impact of COVID-19. It includes discussions on the significance of safeguarding training, individual factors contributing to child vulnerability, and comparisons of safeguarding data across different countries. The bibliography offers valuable insights into the challenges and strategies associated with safeguarding vulnerable children.

Annotated Bibliography
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Contents
1. How to prevent and address safeguarding concerns in global health research programmes:
practice, process and positionality in marginalised spaces..............................................................3
2. What is Safeguarding Training & Why is it so Important?.........................................................3
3. Safeguarding vulnerable children................................................................................................4
4. Safeguarding children: a comparison of England’s data with that of Australia, Norway and the
United States....................................................................................................................................4
5. Children’s well-being and vulnerability......................................................................................5
6. Individual factors that contribute to child vulnerability..............................................................5
7. Child safety, protection, and safeguarding in the time of COVID-19 in Great Britain:
Proposing a conceptual framework..................................................................................................6
8. Child development: Vulnerability and resilience........................................................................6
9. Perspectives on safeguarding and child protection in English schools: the new educational
landscape explored...........................................................................................................................7
10. Vulnerability and child sexual exploitation: Towards an approach grounded in life
experiences.......................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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1. How to prevent and address safeguarding concerns in global health
research programmes: practice, process and positionality in marginalised
spaces
This article was written by Bachera Aktar and et. al, 2020. This article aims to share the
practice and process associated safeguarding within GCRF Accountability for Informal Urban
Equity Hub - ARISE. It is the new research consortium which aims to improve the accountability
and enhance health and wellbeing of marginalized individuals working and living in informal
urban spaces in middle income and low income countries. This paper help in improving the
knowledge regarding significance of safeguarding in global health research as well as consider
the way thinking regarding vulnerability relational concept. The paper includes debates on
decolonising science as well as argues for significance of an iterative, continuous learning
journey which is reflective, critical and inclusive of vulnerable people. The safeguarding
literature in Global Health research is limited. The documented participatory processes which
capture situated difficulties, experiences, knowledge and practice of distinct actors is needed
across varied contexts and health issues. The researchers collectively decided to follow the steps
which enable them to learn from one another and co-develop approaches and understandings to
safeguarding which will continue to evolve. It has been found from study that developing the
processes to promote safeguarding in Global Health is significant and requires participatory
processes, partnerships, reflexivity and developing of trust.
2. What is Safeguarding Training & Why is it so Important?
This is an article published by Katie Martinelli in year 2018. This article covers information
about safeguarding children and vulnerable adults along with significance of safeguarding. Apart
from this, article discusses about benefits of safeguarding training when working with vulnerable
groups. According to the article, having strict safeguarding procedures and policies in place is
very necessary as important for vulnerable children and adults to feel protected and safe.
WhatsApp carding may result in two cases of neglect and abuse, increase distress and confusion
for people who are suffering but have no knowledge regarding whom to talk. In addition to this,
an increase in severity in neglect and abuse and children and vulnerable adults being treated with
lack of empathy or compassion also the result of poor safeguarding. Although the article
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improves knowledge regarding safeguarding, its significance and benefits of safeguarding
training, the article do not include other aspects associated with child and adult vulnerability and
safeguarding issues associated with them. The article contains limited information which is not
adequate to gain proper knowledge regarding the safeguarding and aspects associated with it.
3. Safeguarding vulnerable children
This is an article which was written by Tim McDougall, 2008. The article was about
safeguarding the vulnerable children from any kind of harm, abuse neglect etc. Some of the
children and young people are vulnerable and need additional safeguarding - including the
people in local authority care, people who are in custody, those who are affected through
domestic violence and the individuals who have disabilities. The reviews of nursing contribution
in safeguarding vulnerable children was done by the author to enhance the capability and
capacity of nursing workforce in order to safeguard as well as promote the welfare of children. It
has been found from the article that despite from various developments, an inspirational and
strategic clinical leadership is needed to bring about significant changes in culture needed to
make sure that safeguarding children becomes part of day to day nursing practice.
4. Safeguarding children: a comparison of England’s data with that of
Australia, Norway and the United States
This article was written by Emily R. Munro and Esmeranda Manful in year 2012. The article
aims to consider the way different institutional as well as cultural approaches alongside distinct
forms of provision and support may impact rate of neglect and abuse and the response of public
authorities. This article offers an analysis and interpretation of administrative data available in
nations above in order to explore changes in identification of and response to neglect and abuse
over time. This study also reviews literature on child welfare data as well as decent practice and
policy developments in United States, England, Norway and Australia. This study is valuable to
explore the contribution and role that existing data sets may play to understand differences in
recognition of and responses to neglect and abuse in different jurisdictions. The study provides
deep insights on the topic and will help the reader in knowing about how different cultural and
institutional approaches with different provisions and support may impact rate of neglect and
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abuse. It has been found from the study that an upward trend in assessments, referrals and in out
of the home care population in Norway, England and Australia, even though reforms have been
executed to promote early prevention and intervention. Contrasting to this, there has been
decrease in number of cases of substantiated abuse in United States due to increasing utilisation
of informal kingship or voluntary care that divert children from formal child welfare system.
5. Children’s well-being and vulnerability
Children's well-being and vulnerability is an article written by Alexander Bagattini in year
2019. This article aims to discuss different ways in which the vulnerability of children can
influence their wellbeing. this article provides knowledge and information about the role of
vulnerability for development of autonomy in children as important part of their well-being. It
also discusses the way particular duties towards children arise from their vulnerability. The study
involves non peer reviewed papers which has been reviewed as well supported by editors of the
section. This paper provides information about applied topics associated with well-being and
vulnerability of children. This assist the reader in improving the knowledge regarding the topic
and understanding the issue in appropriate way in which the vulnerability of children can
influence their wellbeing.
6. Individual factors that contribute to child vulnerability
This article examines the individual factors that contribute to vulnerability of child -
including mental health, my treatment, immigrant background, disability and being in out of
home care. The article renders evidence on the way these factors affect well being of children
latter adult outcomes. This factor affects the physical, emotional and cognitive capabilities of
children. Various factors are discussed in detail which are the causes of child vulnerability. This
provides ample amount of information to the reader regarding the factor that leads children
towards vulnerability. It has been discussed in the article that unaccompanied minors face
integration challenges, specifically those who do not have guardian to render financial,
emotional, practical and social support. It has been found from the overall study that child
protection system requires to improve the procedures as well as interventions that develop
resilience in children through contributing to placement stability, administering them with
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adequate therapeutic and health care support, assist for birth parents in coping with their issues
and loss and few alterations in child protection personnel.
7. Child safety, protection, and safeguarding in the time of COVID-19 in
Great Britain: Proposing a conceptual framework
The authors of the article are Diane Thembekile Levine, Michelle O'Reilly and Julie Morton
in 2020. The people aims to propose a pragmatic and novel conceptual framework during
challenging time. The participants of the study are 8 education professionals along with four
field based student social workers. This study helps in improving knowledge about child
vulnerability during the covid-19 situation and the challenges presented by it. The article reflects
on impact of covid-19 on child welfare in Great Britain along with the considerable challenges.
Two phases of conceptual framework have proposed in the study for future research. the first
phase is related to understanding the mid pandemic context and the second phase reflects
realistically on what post pandemic context look like. Apart from this, the paper questioned the
narrow definition of vulnerability of government of United Kingdom and have argued instead of
constructions of vulnerability required to be context depend, iterative and situational, accounting
for personal resources of each child as well as their unique relationship to extrinsic world.
8. Child development: Vulnerability and resilience
The article is based on child development and was written by Patrice L. Engle, Sarah Castle
and Purnima Menon in 1996. The review emphasizes specifically on those alterations in which
children are victims and induce new threats for them instead of on issues like mental illness or
child disability. Children are now facing many challenges including political violence, increase
in urbanization, decrease supply of food and changing family forms. In the study, the outcome
interest variables are dimension of psychosocial development of children involving
psychological adjustment, cognitive development and aggression. The risks which are significant
in psychosocial development of children in developing countries are taken into consideration in
this paper by authors and provide discussion of resilience and risk concepts, then apply those to
analysis of examples of risks faced through children today including experiences of violence,
family dynamics and types of family forms and nutritional threats. The study is effective in
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providing knowledge and information regarding child development to the reader in an
appropriate manner.
9. Perspectives on safeguarding and child protection in English schools: the
new educational landscape explored
This article was written by Mary Baginsky, Jenny Driscoll, Jill Manthorpe & Carl Purcell in
year 2019. This article emphasizes on the engagement of school with child protection and
safeguarding from the perspective of social care professionals of children employed in local
authorities and senior education. The study considered policy development effects on
relationship between schools and local authorities in mitigating their statutory duties in order to
determine and support vulnerable children and families along with intervening in those children
considered to be at risk of harm. This is a qualitative based research in which interviews were
conducted for gathering the data and drawing valid outcomes of research. This research is
significant in investigating the decision making of school in child protection as well as their
engagement in multi-agency working. The study is effective in exploring the perspectives of
participants and provide insight into emerging pressures which are challenging to local
authorities and schools. The findings from the study suggest that local authorities faced
challenges in working with educational community.
10. Vulnerability and child sexual exploitation: Towards an approach
grounded in life experiences
The author of the article is Kate Brown and the article was published in year 2019. This
article aims to analyse the issues with vulnerability concept as it is commonly understood in
context of child sexual exploitation, taking initial steps towards generating an empirically
grounded account of the notion that is sensitive to live realities of victimhood for the young
people who was sexually exploited. The article discusses about the way vulnerability is shaped
by situational dynamics, structural forces and individual factors connected through human
agency by time. The study argues that in order to respond effectively to vulnerability in the field
of child sexual exploitation, it is necessary to move beyond risk factors as well as denial of
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agency, towards understanding of social marginality, intersectional social divisions, critical
moments and the way these shape the actions and investments of vulnerable young people.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
How to prevent and address safeguarding concerns in global health research programmes:
practice, process and positionality in marginalised spaces, 2020. [Online]. Available
through: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7228499/>
What is Safeguarding Training & Why is it so Important? 2018. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.highspeedtraining.co.uk/hub/what-is-safeguarding/>
Safeguarding vulnerable children, 2008. [Online]. Available through:
<https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18500135/>
Safeguarding children: a comparison of England’s data with that of Australia, Norway and the
United States, 2012. [Online]. Available through:
<https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/
attachment_data/file/183946/DFE-RR198.pdf>
Children’s well-being and vulnerability, 2019. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17496535.2019.1647973>
Individual factors that contribute to child vulnerability, 2020. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/a7e520c2-en/index.html?itemId=/content/
component/a7e520c2-en>
Child safety, protection, and safeguarding in the time of COVID-19 in Great Britain: Proposing
a conceptual framework, 2020. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7425676/>
Child development: Vulnerability and resilience, 1996. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0277953696001104>
Perspectives on safeguarding and child protection in English schools: the new educational
landscape explored, 2019. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131881.2019.1677167?
src=recsys&journalCode=rere20>
Vulnerability and child sexual exploitation: Towards an approach grounded in life experiences,
2019. [Online]. Available through:
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0261018318824480>
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