Community Partnership Project
The Community Partnership Project was a London Safeguarding Children Board (the London Board) action and audit project, jointly managed with eight London boroughs and funded by the London Board, the Department for Education and Skills, the Home Office and the London boroughs. The project commenced on 1st July 2006 and ended on 30th June 2007. Please follow the link below to download the final project report and a training powerpoint for LSCBs:
Community Partnership Project - final report
Community Partnership Project - training powerpoint
The aim of the project was to improve collaborative mechanisms for the safeguarding of London’s children, by gathering and sharing information and promoting improvement in practice between statutory bodies, local minority ethnic communities and faith groups.
The project forms part of the ongoing safeguarding children response by London boroughs, police and health services and central government to the death of Victoria Climbie and the more recent highly publicised cases of abuse involving custom and ritual in London.
The London Board and London boroughs recognise and respect the very wide range of difference which exists both within and between the cultures of London’s communities. The project acknowledges and values the positive position London communities have taken and continue to take in their willingness to protect children.
Related articles and information
Newham child protection policy for Mosques and Madrassahs
Child protection in faith based environments - Muslim Parliament (March 2006)
Review of the evidence base on faith communities - ODPM (April 2006)
Honour based violence and forced marriage
Honour crime is "underestimated" - BBC Online (February 2008)
Crimes of the community: honour-based violence in the UK - Centre for Social Cohesion (2008)
Forced marriage torment of Britain's South Asian men - article (Nov 2007)
FGM
Rights of Women welcomes the House of Lords judgement in Fornah: FGM and asylum law in the UK (pg 4)
London Board FGM resources
Spirit possession
Good practice for working with faith communities and places of worship - CCPAS (2008)
Safeguarding children from abuse linked to a belief in spirit possession - government guidance (2007)
Child abuse linked to accusations of "possession" and "witchcraft" - Eleanor Stobart report (2006)
Child trafficking
- See the child trafficking pages of this website.