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Making a real difference or just another child death inquiry? Learning the lessons from Childhood Lost

At a recent national training event on the management of young people who sexually abuse others, I inquired as to how many of the participants had heard of the Part 8 overview report Childhood Lost (Bridge Publishing, 2001). Less than a quarter of a professional audience with a specific interest in young people with sexual behaviour problems indicated that they had heard of, let alone had familiarity with, the contents of the UK’s first case review into the management of a young person with sexual behaviour problems. Contrast that response with reactions to any mention of the Laming Report or the name Victoria Climbié and one begins to get a feel for the magnitude of difference between the prominence and impact of these two published child death inquiries. It is both timely and welcome that the Journal of Sexual Aggression should devote a special edition to consider the report in detail, place it within a wider UK and international perspective and to consider its potential impact on services and standards of practice with young people. The importance of locating Childhood Lost in a broader context is emphasised by two other recent publications, Learning from Past Experience: A Review of Serious Case Reviews (DoH, 2002) and I think I might need some more help with this problem: Responding to children and young people who display sexually harmful behaviour (Lovell, 2002). In Learning from Past Experience (DoH, 2002) the authors offer a cautionary note about the Part 8 Case Review process: