Nursery World - Carers urged to spot abuse signs

All childcarers have an important part to play in helping to stop child abuse, the NSPCC said earlier this week. At the launch of its Turning Point for Children campaign on Monday, the charity stressed the important role that early years workers have to play in spotting signs of child abuse. The NSPCC said there had been a rise in the number of babies killed over the past five years and that babies were now five times more likely to be killed than any other age group.

At the launch of its Turning Point for Children campaign on Monday, the charity stressed the important role that early years workers have to play in spotting signs of child abuse. The NSPCC said there had been a rise in the number of babies killed over the past five years and that babies were now five times more likely to be killed than any other age group.

It said that severe physical abuse was also 120 times more common for babies than for children aged five to 13, with the death rate from such abuse ten times higher than for children aged between one and five.

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