Back to the Frontline: Conservative Party Policy Paper on Child Protection

Introduction by Tim Loughton MP Shadow Minister for Children and Young People

In recent years the subject of children and young people has risen up the political agenda. It is only right that it should do as our junior citizens constitute around 20% of the population and with recent research showing that over half of children born now will live to be over 100, getting it wrong for them will mean dealing with children with problems becoming adults with problems for many years to come.

While there has been modest progress in securing coverage for the many positive achievements of our young people so easily tagged with labels of anti-social behaviour and NEETS, it is the horrifying cases of the brutal abuse, torture and killing of innocent young children which have gained the most prominent headlines. When it is at the hands of their parents or carers it is particularly tragic and challenges the credulity and tolerance of our whole society.

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