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Neglect and Serious Case Reviews
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Physical abuse to the child was defined as having a current or past plan under the
category of physical abuse, or where this information was clear from the Child Protection
Database (CPD) where serious case reviews are notified. In addition we included those
cases where the incident was coded as homicide or a fatal physical assault (using the
Sidebotham classification discussed in Table 2.6) or as a non-fatal physical assault
(using our classification discussed in Table 2.7). The figures, and proportions, given in
Table 2.9 are likely to be underestimates, and further work could refine our knowledge
of the overlap between different categories of abuse.
table 2.9 co-existence of neglect (cp plan) with evidence of physical abuse
evidence of physical
abuse to the child
1a
cp plan – neglect
(n=101)
1b
cp plan – not
neglect (n=74)
1c
whole sample
excluding cp plan
– neglect (n=544)
36 (36%) 56 (76%) 317 (58%)
• Neglect co-existed with physical abuse for over one-third (36%) of reviews where
children had a plan for neglect (Table 2.9).
• Of the 57 fatal cases where the child died, there was also evidence of physical abuse
in 18 (32%) of these cases (Table 2.10).
• Of the 44 non-fatal, serious injury cases there was evidence of physical abuse in 18
(41%) of the cases (Table 2.10).
table 2.10 Neglect (cp plan) with evidence of physical abuse: fatal or non-fatal
cases
Number of cases with
a cp plan for neglect
(n=101)
fatal cases only 57 18 (32%)
Non-fatal cases only 44 18 (41%)
evidence of physical
abuse to the child