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Responding to any concern has to be done in a professional manner meaning that you don’t talk to the parents or carer of the child without first following procedures.

Children Act 2006 – Is an Act that defines the new duties imposed on the Local Authorities in respect to improving the Every Child Matters outcomes for pre-school children. The Act also defines new rules in relation to childcare for working parents as well as parental information services. It is aimed at improving the well-being of young children. It emphasises the importance of safeguarding children and young people within an educational setting. If a child discloses neglect or abuse; an establishment should have instructions to help the child. This could be referral to an outside organisation or internally.

In the state of New York the Child Protective System identifies certain professional a vital purpose in reporting child abuse, a code of ethic is used here B.2.a., Probable Harm and Legal requirements under the ACA code of ethics (Counseling, 2015). It is mandated to certain professionals to report

Children Act 1989 – Protecting children’s welfare and to provide services according to the specific needs of children.

If any professional becomes concerned that a child might be at risk of abuse, be it physical, sexual, emotional or neglect, it is their legal duty to pass on such concerns to the appropriate professionals who can assess if and what action should be taken. In cases where it will not put the child at greater risk or danger, the parents / carers of the child will be informed that such action has been taken.

This Children and Young Persons Act (2008) increases quality of care for children and young people up to the age of 18years old, ensuring every child’s voice is heard.

When a child is suspected of being abused, neglected or placed at imminent risk of serious harm by a member of the staff of a private or public school or an institution that cares for the child, the person in charge of the school or facility must notify the child’s parent or other person responsible for the child’s care that a report has been made. The state’s department of child abuse responsibility is to notify the head of a facility, school or establishment that a report has been made.

The Children Act focuses on the welfare of the child and stated that “the welfare of the child is the paramount consideration.” (Children Act 1989 www.devon.co.uk) In my setting the child is at the heart of everything to do with him/her. For example the setting plans outdoor activities in which they may play or do classroom related activities. The setting has to take in consideration the child’s safety through the environment, the activity planned, how the children will get there and the practitioner to child ratio.

whether the child is of sufficient age to independently consent to treatment. 2. How the release of information may impact the therapeutic treatment relationship. 3. Whether there are active concerns about abuse or neglect by the parent requesting the information. 4. Whether the child’s treatment was provided in individual sessions or conjointly with the custodial parent; and the purpose of the request. In the state of Florida, in most cases the non-custodial parent has the same right to visitation and shred custody as the custodial parent. The non-custodial parent has access to all the same information and documents pertaining to the child’s welfare. This happens unless the courts say otherwise. The ethical issues addressed in this case are the fathers trust that the medical records would not be released. The worker would be going against the fathers wish, but if they didn’t give the mother access to the records, they would be denying a worried mother the right to know about her child. Either way the worker could feel somewhat guilty (NASW,2006).

Westat found that professionals failed to report many of the children they saw who had signs of child abuse and neglect. It found that in 1986, 56 percent of apparently abused or neglected children, or about 500,000 children, were not reported to the authorities. This figure, however, seems more alarming than it is: Basically, the more serious the case, the more likely the report. For example, the surveyed professionals reported over 85 percent of the fatal or serious physical abuse cases they saw, 72 percent of the sexual abuse cases, and 60 percent of the moderate physical abuse cases. They only reported 15 percent of the educational neglect cases they saw, 24 percent of the emotional neglect cases, and 25 percent of the moderate physical neglect cases.

1. Confidentiality must be kept at all times. You must have the senior practitioner’s and/or the parents’ permission before making formal observations of children. Do not to leave confidential material lying around they must be secured in a locked cabinet. Line of reporting-only talk to authorized personal about confidential material. This confidentially can only be broken when a child is at real risk.

Establishing a child’s exposure history often involves the use of multiple informants. Rates of parent-child agreement gauge the challenge facing post-trauma mental health service providers and researchers. Without an objective measure at the time of traumatic exposures, parental report is often taken to supersede or supplement children’s own accounts1. In many situations, however, parents are uninformed regarding their child’s experiences, and children themselves may be the best informants.

Every day, within our Nation, abuse and neglect threaten a child’s life. The ability for an individual to clearly identify neglect and abuse can be the difference between life and death. Knowing the proper time to intervene in a situation is important in the process of reporting something that could be child abuse and neglect. The key factor in knowing when to report a situation that could be potentially harmful is being properly education on the signs and symptoms. Many studies have been conducted on the awareness that guardians and professionals have on child abuse, but not many studies have focused on whether these individuals have been received the proper training and knowledge. Are professionals and caregivers really aware of the

The Children’s Act 2004 – provides the legal basis for how social service and other agencies deal with issues relating to children. It arose from the Green Paper “Every Child Matters” and identifies the following outcomes for all children:

A counselor would know the right words to assay and questions to ask. Using certain words could offset the child’s feelings and they could choose then to not speak at all (Reese, 2000, 404-406). Any abuse that the child goes through could affect a child mentally not just mental abuse. The research from Laura Hazard had shown that when abused a child will usually get asked a lot of questions to which the child may not be ready to answer. The doctors or counselors could potentially mentally scaring them. Professionals must learn through school on how to talk with children who have been abused; so they do not trigger any possible outbursts the child could have. Also doctors and counselors need to be careful of what to ask if an investigation is underway with the child. If so the doctor or counselor could be breaking laws by knowing information from a private court case. Doctors and counselors must always check out every assumption to which a child makes in in his or her report. Checking every assumption could help with knowing what the child went through (Hazard, 1985,