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Publication  —  Child protection, Joint inspection  —  30 January 2024

Joint targeted area inspection of the multi-agency response to identification of initial need and risk in Torbay.

Publication  —  Child protection, Terms of reference  —  22 June 2022

We will carry out a thematic inspection of how the police respond to child sexual exploitation in England and Wales. 

Publication  —  Child protection, Terms of reference  —  16 December 2021

HMICFRS will undertake a thematic inspection of the policing of online child sexual exploitation in England and Wales.

Publication  —  Child protection, Joint inspection, Mental health  —  9 December 2020

This report draws together findings from six joint targeted area inspections, focusing on the multi-agency response to children’s mental ill health. The findings in this report considers how local partnerships and services were responding to children and their families when children were living with mental ill health.

Publication  —  Child protection, Thematic inspection, Vulnerability  —  27 February 2020

In early 2014, we began a national programme of child protection inspections. We examine the effectiveness of the decisions made by the police at each stage of their interactions with or for children, from initial contact through to the investigation of offences against them. We also scrutinise the treatment of children in custody, and assess how forces are structured, led and governed, in relation to their child protection services.

Publication  —  Child protection, Research  —  27 February 2020

In 2014, HMICFRS started a rolling programme of inspections in every police force in England and Wales, looking at their response to child protection. To better understand the impact of these inspections on policing activity, we commissioned NatCen to carry out independent evaluation of the programme.

Publication  —  Child protection, Joint inspection  —  4 February 2020

This report draws together findings from six joint targeted area inspections, focusing on the multi-agency response to child sexual abuse in the family environment.

Publication  —  Child protection, Joint inspection  —  8 January 2020

Between 18 November 2019 and 22 November 2019, Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), HMI Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) and HMI Probation (HMI Prob) carried out a joint inspection of the multi-agency response to ‘front door’ services, evaluating all forms of abuse, neglect and exploitation, as well as an evaluation of the responses to children’s mental health in Plymouth.

Publication  —  Child protection, Joint inspection  —  23 November 2018

Between 8 and 12 October 2018, Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission, HMICFRS and HMI Probation undertook a joint inspection of the multi-agency response to sexual abuse in the family in Cornwall.

Publication  —  Child protection, Joint inspection  —  14 November 2018

Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission, HMICFRS and HMI Probation, examined the multi-agency response to older child exploitation and children missing from home, care or education. This builds on findings from the 2016 report, ‘Time to listen’ – a joined up response to child sexual exploitation and missing children’.