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In this Paper, Charles Pragnell draws attention to statistics which show that the majority of reports of child abuse are false and inaccurate and that the investigations which follow such false reports are causing serious emotional harm |
In this Paper, Charles Pragnell draws attention to statistics which show that the majority of reports of child abuse are false and inaccurate and that the investigations which follow such false reports are causing serious emotional harm to the many thousands of children in the U.K. involved in such false accusations annually. Such false accusations are usually made for mistaken, mischievous, malicious, or monetary reasons.
The Paper also examines the findings of studies of how child protection procedures are carried out and the major faults which occur with an unacceptable level of frequency in such Procedures. These faults in the Child Protection Procedures are also causing serious harm to children and their families.
These are the very serious effects on children and their families when Child Protection Procedures are flawed or are carried out incorrectly, but there is also a substantial financial cost of such failures of the system. False accusations of child abuse have therefore a cost to everyone.
Despite numerous Public Inquiries into the individual deaths of children and major Inquiries into the incorrect child abuse accusations affecting groups of children and their families in the last thirty years, no lessons have been learned by social workers from such Inquiries – the deaths of children while under the care and supervision of social workers and the children harmed by false accusations of child abuse continue unabated.
This Paper was first published on the www.childrenuk.co.uk website and is reproduced with the kind permission of the author.
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