Parents lose control because they don’t set boundaries

implementing appropriate steps, ca can t urn t he situation a around.” Other c ases in Norfolk involved a tenyear- o old boy, four 11- 11-year-oldyea girls and an 11-year-old boy. In North Wales, police questioned two ten-year-old boys and charged two 14-year-olds with domestic violence offences.

In Hertfordshire a child was charged with rape, one in South Wales with murder and another in Lancashire with kidnap. These crimes were flagged by police as domestic violence incidents against adults. The Sunday People also submitted a freedom of information request to councils asking for the number of children taken into care because social workers believed they posed a risk to their parents or carers. Eight admitted they had dealt with such cases. But the real number is likely to be far higher because many councils rejected our request on cost grounds or believing giving the information would breach the child’s data protection rights. Stockton council said it had dealt with seven cases in the past year where the children were aged 11 to 16. Dorset removed four kids, including one of 11, from the care of a parent or guardian. East Sussex had a case relating to a 15-year-old, Wigan had two linked with the actions of teenagers aged 15 and 16.