On a daily basis, the safety and well-being of many children across Trinidad and Tobago are being threatened by child abuse (Perrault, 2011). Child abuse is a broad term which encompasses physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, commercial exploitation and neglect. The United Nations’ Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) defines child abuse as “all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse”. (UNCRC, Article 19, 1989). It is important to increase the knowledge and awareness of abuse and the rights of the child among children, parents, and those who work in close proximity to children so children can be nurtured in positive and healthy environments.
Human Service Organisations are tasked with providing services that address a particular need with the expressed aim of transforming lives (Patti, 2009). Using people as raw material sets these organisations apart from other agencies (Hasenfield, 2010). While facts surrounding child abuse and neglect cases are grim, human service organisations provide several interventions opportunities for children. However, a tool is needed to refine the work they do and thereby begin a cycle of continuing development and greater success. One such tool is process evaluation which has been recognised by funders, policymakers, and service providers in the functioning of human service organisations. Process evaluation is a method of
Child abuse is a rising topic of discussion in sociological debates across the nation due to the increased awareness concerned professionals are bringing to it. The issue has long been diagnosed as generational and cyclic in nature, where children who receive abuse grow up and replicate the process on their own offspring, and so on and so forth. This analysis attempts to illuminate possible connections between various factors within the parent’s lives that may correlate to child abuse in the home. Connections between the reproductive process (birth control, reproductive freedom, and population policies), economic stresses, character-based traits, and occupational stressors will be presented, analyzed, and then correlated
Every day children around the world are being abused by their parents, trusted adult, caregiver and peers. Children are constantly suffering when there are things that everyone as a community can do help them. Psychologists, social workers and the victims to childhood abuse have studied and worked together to establish precautionary measures to execute child abuse all together.
All people have the basic right to be kept safe from harm, especially children and young people. No-one deserves to suffer from any form of abuse – whether emotional, physical, sexual or subject to neglect. If children and young people are safeguarded; they are more likely to grow into confident well-rounded adults. As adults working with children and young people, it is important that we recognise signs of abuse, and are able where
While it is always necessary to report suspected child abuse. The Department of Human Services (DHS) does not always do the best at ensuring that the children are in the best place for their own well being. After DHS receives the call that a child may be being abused they send out Child Protective Services (CPS) to evaluate wheiter or not a child is being abuse, treat the children if they are injured, and prevent the cycle of abuse and neglect from happening again. CPS and DHS do try and keep the families together if they can but if that is not possible the child is taken out of the custody of the parents and placed into the DHS custody and eventually introduced to foster parents. Children can receive a recommendation
Throughout this work I will relate to a case study. I will provide a definition of abuse using both sociological and psychological perspectives to contribute to our understanding of the causes of abuse. I will define the types, indicators, signs and symptoms of abuse and its impact on families and individuals, identifying factors relevant to the case study, recognising and explaining current legislation making reference to Government reports/inquiries and research into failures to protect from harm and abuse. I will consider the policies and procedures that my work place use and I will identify some statutory and voluntary agencies and their roles in supporting those affected by abuse, relating specifically to the abuse of children.
The assignment that follows will discuss how our authorities have placed government guidelines and legislation’s into place to protect children and young people from harm, abuse or neglect. Firstly, it will discuss why it is so important for professionals to work together among different children services, such as the health sector, education sector and social care sector. It will then discuss why multi-agencies work and integrated work between agencies is so important. Secondly, it will discuss two different case studies and discuss about what may have gone wrong in the past and what legislation has been implemented to prevent further children and young people who have been at risk from abuse. It may be difficult to accept, but every child, young person or vulnerable adult can be hurt, put at risk of harm or abuse, regardless of their age, gender, religion, or ethnicity. The government, authorities, people working alongside children/ young people are the people who should work together to help achieve better outcomes for these children and young people.
Explore what support is available to children at risk of abuse and critically examine its impact for safeguarding children.
All children and young people have a right to be protected from abuse regardless of their age, gender, disability, culture, language, race, faith, belief or sexual orientation. All suspicions and allegations of abuse will be taken seriously and responded to swiftly and appropriately. Working in partnership with other organisations, children and young people and their parents and carers is essential. Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined has protection of children from maltreatment & preventing impairment of childrenâ€TMs health or development. Ensuring those children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care, and undertaking that role so as to enable those children to have
The author of this book ,Stuart was abused by his step father that almost ruined his life and ended up in hospital, but in this book he writes about how he survived the
Back in the day there were not as many child protecting laws and assisting facilities like there are today. In 1960’s there was very little information as it relates to child abuse. A Canadian psychologist by the name of William L. Marshall said, “you could read all the information in one morning. With the lack of information there was no way for individuals to readily identify what constituted as child abuser. Child abuse before 1875 was in fact the era before child services were created to protect the children.
Every year, 1 in 10 children will suffer child abuse and in the United States each year there are over 2.9 million reports of child abuse. Every year, children are being disciplined and as a result, there is more abuse. Different races and ages think discipline and abuse is good for the children, but the majority of the time, child abuse and discipline all begins with stress and alcohol.
2) When discussing child-rearing philosophies and economic with social factors that give to prevalence of child abuse in the US, of today’s views. Everyone has their own opinion and belief on how a child should be raised and disciplined. With child rearing, some parents just “take it too far”, when disciplining their child. It is very saddening to see history repeat itself when a parent is victim of abuse themselves. A parent may not know the difference between punishment and abuse. When I was raised in my parents’ home, it was considered punishment for committing a wrongdoing. I either cleaned something, got spanked, hit upside the head, room was torn apart and had an hour to put it in order or else more punishments. The household consist
Each week Child Protective Services receives more than 50,000 allegations of child abuse. Two-thirds of the allegations have enough evidence to start investigations. The results of these investigations showed 2,450 children are abused everyday (Ianelli, 2006). In 1999, CPS, nearly four, confirmed an estimated 1,401 child abuse and neglect fatalities every day. (Child Abuse Statistics, nd).
Child Abuse. How does one decide what constitutes abuse? Is there a thin line between abuse and discipline? We often hear the horrific stories of child abuse in our communities, but are we as a society so used to hearing these stories that we have become desensitized to them?
These are activities that are targeted at members of the community and general population with the aim to raise awareness about the problems of child abuse. It involves an approach that targets helping families and children before child abuse occurs and not intervening after the harm has been done. This is very essential as every child deserves to grow up and be nurtured in an environment that is safe and stable which helps in the child’s total development such as the physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral components. These strategies can be via a myriad of programs such as educational programs via public awareness programs, public service announcements, parent education groups, child educational programs, family support and strengthening programs.