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

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

Child Employment

Child Employment

• Are you Authorised?

• Page 61

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

Child Employment

• Informants

• School staff

• Parents

• Other agencies

• Anonymous callers

• Children

• Page 50 to 57

Child Employment

• Powers of Entry

• No automatic right

• Public place

• Magistrates order C&YPA 33 sec 28

• Other agency entry powers

• Page 60 and 61

Child Employment

• R.I.P.A.

• Page 62 and RIPA Act on Internet

Child Employment

• First Visits

• Routine checks

• Responding to information / complaints

• Work permit applications

• Page 58

Child Employment

• Second Visits

• Purpose of visit• Deal with right person• Evidence gathering

• Page 59

Child Employment

• Interviewing children

• Interviewing witnesses

• Page 59 and 64

Child Employment

• P.A.C.E caution– When– Where– How

Interviews at scene

Page 62 and Internet

Child Employment

• P.A.C.E.

Formal Interview

Right Person

Tape interview

Page 63 and Internet

Child Employment

• Education Act 1996 section 559 (2)

• Documentary Evidence

• Written notes• Page 65

Child Employment

• Be nosy

• Be curious

• Be persistent

• Be polite

• Protect Children

• Thank you