{"id":1466,"date":"2022-11-18T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilson.org.uk\/?page_id=1466"},"modified":"2024-12-09T13:32:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:32:44","slug":"changing-policies-for-bruised-babies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bilson.org.uk\/wp_new\/home\/changing-policies-for-bruised-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Policies for Bruised Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Professor Andy Bilson explains how his research demonstrates how existing protocols on pre-mobile bruising mislead staff and risk exposing parents to damaging and unnecessary child protection action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel <\/a>(\u201cthe panel\u201d) asked safeguarding partners to review their policies on bruising in non-mobile infants \u201cto check for consistency with the evidence base and national guidelines<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two articles from Community Care cover this Why child protection policies on bruising to babies need to change<\/a><\/em> and Pre-mobile infant bruising should not automatically prompt section 47s, say government advisers<\/a><\/em>. And my full research report with Alessandro Talia (open access) is here Bruises in Premobile Infants: A Contested Area of Research, Policy and Practice<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s also covered in Social Work Today Local authorities urged to review policies for bruising in nonmobile infants<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and the Daily Mail Heartbreaking legacy of the babies taken from their mothers for a single bruise: Shattering stories of a woman who was separated from her child for a year (during which her relationship collapsed) and another left with PTSD<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show produced the short video below<\/p>\n\n\n\n