Islington Social Services: Developing a Policy on Child Sexual Abuse

Boushel, Margaret; Noakes, Sara

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“…In 1988, two Islington social workers noted, "we were unprepared for the sudden emergence of so many sexual abuse cases … there [was] no policy on how to deal with them." 105 An article in the British Medical Journal charted a sharp rise of referrals for child sexual abuse in 1980s Leeds but still acknowledged that different welfare services had "inconsistent response[s] to sexual abuse, as few agencies have uniform procedures of management and coordination between agencies is poor." 106 Social work in the 1970s also reflected the rise of radical claims around rights to sexuality.…”

Section: Change Postponed: the Final Decades Of The Twentieth Centurymentioning

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“…6 Linda Gordon, "The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Notes from American History," in "Family Secrets: Child Sexual Abuse," special issue, Feminist Review, no. 28 (Spring 1988): 56-64, at 60. 7 No claim can be made about the representativeness of the sources examined, though their predominant focus on abuse within the family by individuals known to the child match estimates of wider prevalence of child sexual abuse.…”

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“Disgusting Details Which Are Best Forgotten”: Disclosures of Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Britain

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2018

J. Br. Stud.

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For those who by the end of the twentieth century came to be termed “survivors” of child sexual abuse, different genres and forms have been available to narrate and evaluate that abuse. This article explores the reception and practical results of such disclosures: the unpredictable effects of telling, and the strategies of containment, silencing, or disbelief that greeted disclosures. I make note of the ethical challenges of writing the history of child sexual abuse and conclude that twenty-first-century observers have been too ready to perceive much of the previous century as a period of profound silence in relation to child sexual abuse. At the same time, historical and sociological accounts have also been too ready to claim the final third of the twentieth century as a period of compulsive disclosure and fluency in constructing sexual selves. The history of child sexual abuse reveals significant barriers to disclosure in the 1970s and 1980s, despite new visibility of child sexual abuse in the media and through feminist sexual politics. Attention to such obstacles suggests the need to rethink narratives of “permissive” sexual change to acknowledge more fully the ongoing inequities and hierarchies in sexual candor and voice.

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Section: Change Postponed: the Final Decades Of The Twentieth Centurymentioning

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“Disgusting Details Which Are Best Forgotten”: Disclosures of Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Britain

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J. Br. Stud.

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Slow Change or No Change?: Feminism, Socialism and the Problem of Men

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1989

Feminist Review

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Towards Empowerment in Child Protection Work

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Lebacq²

1992

Children & Society

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SUMMARY. The authors argue in this paper that the dominance of legal and professional approaches that individualise and pathologise child abuse has left welfare workers ill‐equipped to respond to the emergent interest in parent's and children's rights. They suggest that such approaches fail to take adequate account of inequalities based on class, gender and race and the socially‐constructed aspects of adult‐child relationships. They develop a concept of empowerment, informed by radical traditions within welfare work, which can be applied in the context of state intervention to protect children. The applicability of the model is then examined through the use of two case studies.

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Islington Social Services: Developing a Policy on Child Sexual Abuse

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“Disgusting Details Which Are Best Forgotten”: Disclosures of Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Britain

“Disgusting Details Which Are Best Forgotten”: Disclosures of Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Britain

Slow Change or No Change?: Feminism, Socialism and the Problem of Men

Towards Empowerment in Child Protection Work

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