intersectional issue between domestic violence and child abuse becomes a controversial problem for both the domestic violence workers and child protection workers. As Hester (2011) indicates, the intervention approach for domestic violence incident focuses on the men’s violence against women. It attempts to support the battered female as the center of the interventional plan, which advocates for gender equality between the male and female. However, child protection workers pay mostly focus on the children
another part of the world. This assignment will begin by defining child protection. This will lead to an analytical comparison between England and Florida’s child protection approaches, structure of the system and possible practice issues. This will include will include relevant legislation and policies. Following this suggestions on the improvement of provisions and services will be made in accordance to the above findings. Child protection has been chosen for the focus of this assignment as this is a
Historical Justifications. In 1974, the first national child protection legislation, The Child Abuse Prevention and Treat Act (CAPTA) became effective to promote awareness to communities and states to engage in identifying and preventing child abuse (Stein 1984). In order to realize the objectives of the Act, abuse must be defined. Defining abuse is hard to set in stone, as one concern is whether both physical and emotional abuse should be included or only one (Stein 1984). Another concern is determining
may be argued that the notion of child abuse is socially constructed, in other words the definition changes over time and it may even be different from one culture/country to the next, it is ‘a product of a particular culture and context and not an absolutely unchanging phenomenon’ (Corby, 1993, p.39). For example, in the UK in the 1980’s there were four types of abuse, in 1988 there were five and in 1991 they were back to four. For example, work into child protection emerged in the 1960’s and so if
Introduction “Parliaments and their members can and should be among the foremost champions of child protection. They can legislate, oversee government activity, allocate financial resources and, as leaders within their nations and communities, raise awareness of issues and provide advocacy.” Historic Perspective The end of the 19th century saw a raising concern with the cruelty inflicted to children by their guardians, that was expressed in the public campaigns carried out by the National
As a policy, modernizing the framework already in place to protect and prevent child neglect and abuse are an ongoing role for social workers and multi-agencies. The role of social workers in child protection involves good supervision to enable any abuse. Risk valuations and risk managements have become an important role for professionals in the area of child safeguarding, as the fear of children’s deaths have risen over the years and cased moral panics within the media and pointed blame towards
they need to know about every single child so any issues of concern can be pointed out to the managers. One of our managers are the named safeguarding officer. It is then her and the room leaders responsibility to pass any information on to children’s services agencies without delay if need be. It is the room leader’s responsibility to give all staff guidance, support and advice such as any specific safeguarding issues. All staff must attend a child protection training course to help us identify
Child Protection Where I work we have a number of policies and procedures to make sure that safeguarding is taking place. Since I have worked there I have had to attend a number of trainings on this all of which are compulsory in order to be able to work in the setting. All member of staff, volunteers and any other person that comes into contact with the students are properly vetted, this includes checks into the eligibility and the suitability (e.g references), and all of these people have to have
An explanation of child protection within the wider concept of safeguarding children and young people. “Safeguarding is protecting vulnerable adults or children from abuse or neglect. It means making sure people are supported to get good access to health care and stay well. It is wrong if vulnerable people are not treated by professionals with the same respect as other patients. It is making sure that people are supported to have full and happy lives. It is making sure that people get safe and empowering
Child protection is protecting children from physical, emotional or sexual abuse or neglect. It also means that it is our job to ensure children grow up into confident, healthy and happy adults. Child protection is an important part of good practice in early years settings, schools and out-of-school services. You may work together in a team or alone if you are a nannie or a foster career, we all have an important role to play to ensure that every child, regardless of their age, gender, religion