Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care

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1.1 Define the following types of abuse Physical abuse: Physical abuse may involve hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning, or scalding, drowning, suffocating or anything that can cause harm to a child. Physical harm may also be caused when a parent or carer falsifies the symptoms or may deliberately cause a child to have ill health; this can be known as Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy. Sexual abuse: sexual abuse involves forcing or enticing a child or young person to take part in sexual activities, whether or not the child is aware of what is happening. The activities may involve physical contact, including penetrative (e.g. rape or beggary) or non-penetrative acts. They may include non-contact activities, such as involving children in looking at, or in the making of pornographic material, watching sexual activities or encouraging children to behave in sexually inappropriate ways. Emotional/psychological abuse: Persistent emotional ill treatment of a child such as to cause severe and persistent adverse effects on the child’s development. It may involve conveying to a child they are worthless, unloved, and inadequate or valued only in a small part. It may involve causing children to feel frightened or in danger. Emotional harm may be the initial triggers that lead to physical harm e.g. self harm. Financial abuse: Vulnerable people who suffer material exploitation at the hands of any person through the misuse of their money, property, possessions, or by having their access to material goods restricted by another person. The following are risk factors which may predispose a person with learning disability to financial abuse: • Inability to administer their own money due to lack of numeracy skills • Inability to understand finances • Dependence on other people to administer money • Several people are involved in managing their money •
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