Child Employment

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Child Employment

• The material used in this workshop is taken from
  the handbook exposing the Hidden Army. The
  handbook is available on the NNCEE members part
  of the website. I have put the page number on
  each slide where the information can be seen
• Graham Dovey

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Child Employment

• The successful officer is the person, fired with
  enthusiasm for the broader aspects of their
  duties, who works with the conviction that
• if a thing is worth doing it is worth doing
  well.
• The post therefore calls for the highest gifts
  of tact, commonsense, humour, sympathy, courage
  and straightforwardness
• John Stevenson and J.Henry Capes (1945)
• Page 5

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Child Employment
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Child Employment

• Are you Authorised?
• Page 61

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Child Employment

• Co-operation with other agencies
• Education Welfare Officers
• Environmental Health Officers
• Health and Safety Executive
• Trading Standards
• Licensing Officers
• Police
• Page 50 to 57

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Child Employment

• Informants
• School staff
• Parents
• Other agencies
• Anonymous callers
• Children
• Page 50 to 57

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Child Employment

• Powers of Entry
• No automatic right
• Public place
• Magistrates order CYPA 33 sec 28
• Other agency entry powers
• Page 60 and 61

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Child Employment

• R.I.P.A.
• Page 62 and RIPA Act on Internet

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Child Employment

• First Visits
• Routine checks
• Responding to information / complaints
• Work permit applications
• Page 58

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Child Employment

• Second Visits
• Purpose of visit
• Deal with right person
• Evidence gathering
• Page 59

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Child Employment

• Interviewing children
• Interviewing witnesses
• Page 59 and 64

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Child Employment

• P.A.C.E caution
• When
• Where
• How
• Interviews at scene
• Page 62 and Internet

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Child Employment

• P.A.C.E.

Formal Interview Right Person Tape
interview Page 63 and Internet
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Child Employment

• Education Act 1996 section 559 (2)
• Documentary Evidence
• Written notes
• Page 65

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Child Employment

• Be nosy
• Be curious
• Be persistent
• Be polite
• Protect Children
• Thank you