Conducting Forensic Interviews with Children
Forensic interviewers generally do not receive adequate training to prepare them to conduct child sexual abuse interviews. Revision of training, facilities and techniques are suggested. A forensic interview can modify a child's recall of events they may have experienced. This article recounts major problems found in observations of forensic interviews with children and makes recommendations to increase the reliability of the responses from children and assure quality control.
There has obviously been no lessons, learned from the Cleveland Child Abuse scandal of the 1980s, where many Children, were taken into Care wrongly, after a Paediatrician, gave conflicting Medical Evidence.
ReplyDeleteNew Child Protection Guidelines came out, after this event.
But very little has changed, within the UK, since this scenario, which resulted into a Public Inquiry.
Alison Stevens Parents Against Injustice