ABSTRACT
Plan (Department for Education (DfE), 2013a) because they are at risk of abuse, approximately eight cases go undetected (Harker et al., 2013). In the early years National Statistics on 31 March 2012 (NSPCC, 2013) indicate that 880 unborn children and 4850 under the age of one in England were subject to a Child Protection Plan because of concerns about their carers’ ability to protect them from harm. Additionally, 26.1% of the 382,400 children deemed in need of social care services, mainly because of abuse, were under five years old (DfE, 2012a). Another 39,000 children under the age of one were reported as living in families with domestic violence in 2012 (Wave Trust, 2013).
