Neglect and serious case reviews (PDF, 735KB) - nspcc

figure 2.2: incidence of cp plan for neglect (at any time), and any other evidence of
neglect, 2009–11 n=139
• 18 children had a current or discontinued child protection plan under the category of
neglect.
• There was other evidence of neglect in a further 65 cases; making neglect a feature in
a total of 83 (60%) of these 139 serious case reviews (Figure 2.2).
Neglect featured fairly evenly across the age ranges of children, apart from in the 11–15
year old group where neglect was a much more common feature in the child’s history
(Table 2.11). A better awareness of the widespread existence of neglect in the history
of vulnerable adolescents has been an important consequence of Rees and colleagues’
study of adolescent neglect (Rees et al 2011).
table 2.11: incidence of neglect by age group (2009–11)
age group
2. Neglect in the lives of children who become the subject of a serious case review – a statistical overview
56
40%
18
13%
65
47%
incidence of neglect
Neglect a feature of
case (n=83)
No mention of
neglect (n=56)