Charles Pragnell is an independent social care management
consultant, a Child/Family Advocate, and an Expert Defence Witness – Child
Protection, and has given evidence to Courts in cases in England, Scotland,
and New Zealand. Charles has over forty years of experience in working
directly with children and young people as a social worker, a senior manager
of social services, and Director of an independent organization providing
services for children and families. - Charles now lives in
Australia
He has undertaken research for the National
Children’s Bureau and several local authority Social Services and Education
Departments and for Health Authorities. He has also made presentations at
national and international conferences on child care issues (including child
protection) and social policy issues, and has presented occasional lectures
at Universities in England and Australia.
For over eleven years Charles was an External
Examiner to social work qualifying courses at the Universities of
Sunderland, Central Lancashire, and the John Moore University in Liverpool.
He has had numerous articles on child care and social policy published in
journals in the U.K. and South Africa. How
children are suffering harm by those with a duty to protect them
