Nick Parry Morton’s Lodge CYP33 4.1 Abuse and neglect are forms of maltreatment of a child. Someone may abuse or neglect a child by inflicting harm or by failing to prevent harm. Children may be abused in a family or in an institutional or community setting, by people they know or by a stranger, for example, through the internet. They may be abused by one or more adults, or another child or children. Child abuse can have major long-term effects on all aspects of a child's health, development and well being.
Children may be sent to orphanage or foster care, but the decision never com lightly as the mental issues with separating families are obvious. Since the stigma regarding these problems is so major, the children are at the mercy of others to alert the government. Those others maybe friends and families, but mostly schools and teachers. As everyone have an obligation to alert child welfare when kids are at risk, the school have this as a statutory duty. A social worker will act upon this warnings and issue necessary measures.
Often children and young people can become seriously ill very suddenly which means that as a member of staff they should be alert to any changes in their behaviour which could indicate pain or nausea. When a child becomes sick or lets the school staffs know that they feel unwell, staff will need to sufficiently look after them until their parent or a carer arrives to collect them. In life threatening situations the emergency services should always be contacted straight away. An emergency situation which requires urgent medical attention includes: * An open wound that won’t stop bleeding or where the blood is pumping out. * Burns or scalds to the child’s skin * Meningitis symptoms such as a stiff neck, fever, headache and a rash that doesn’t fade when pressed by a glass.
Principals of safeguarding and protection in health and social care Task A Ai - Aix) When working in social care you may come across situations where some are people at risk of or are being abused by the people who are suppose to be caring for them. You need to know what signs to look for and how you can help stop and protect these people from further abuse. Lets look at types of abuse and signs and symptoms to identify. Type of abuse Physical abuse When a social worker or carer physically hurts or harms the person they care for or are responsible for. Sexual abuse Sexual activity is abusive when consent is not given freely.
Carers should take into consideration any form of distress shown by the individual e.g. a service user may have a tendency to be aggressive to service providers. The psychodynamic perspective would explain this by saying that the individuals aggressive behaviour is due to experiencing inner turmoil and tensions and conflicts from the person’s past are projected into current situations. Service providers should not take this personally – it will be due to unresolved conflicts with one’s same sex parent. In severe cases help should be provided through the use of psychotherapy.
Possible signs, symptoms, indicators and behaviours that may cause me concern for the welfare of a child that I came into contact with could be as follows: Physical: Bruising, Burns, Bite marks or scars. Neglect: Dirty hair/skin, Soiled clothing, Under nourished, withdrawn. Sexual: Genital/rectal itching, lack of trust, isolated/withdrawn. Emotional: Low self-esteem, hair twisting, delayed development, attention seeking behaviours. As an adult I have a duty to report any concerns regarding the welfare and protection of children that enter our Care Home.
Factors Affecting the Consequences of Child Abuse The definition of child physical abuse is very difficult to define and may be described in several different ways depending upon which states you’re in. however, common to all the different definitions is the presence of an injury that the child endures at the hands of his or her caregiver after intentional physical contact between the child and the perpetrator. It is defined not by the act itself, but instead by the repercussion of the act, for example bruises,
A quick snack to eat in between a few classes may appear harmless, but in the end it adds up. Snack after snack, students go about their day completely unaware of the harmful effects of all the unhealthy food they have consumed. Because these junk foods cause childhood obesity, cause heart disease and diabetes, and contributes to poor eating habits, junk food should not be made available in schools. In an article “Should States Ban Junk Food?” it states that nearly 300,000 people die each year from complications associated with being obese or overweight (Codey, 1). Many children in schools walk past vending machines or enter school cafeterias where there is a significant amount of junk food being presented to them.
The Faces of Abuse. Abuse can be harmful in many ways. The psychological effects can be devastating at all stages of development. Survivors of abuse may show an array of emotions, behavioral, and physical symptoms at the time of abuse and throughout their life span. Name-calling, shaming, bullying, embarrassing, or threatening an individual, their pets, or a friend or a family member is consider psychological abuse.
A child could also feel as if any adult that approaches then could be harm to them. There are also signs that you can tell when a parent is abusing the child. An example would be if a parent was talking about the child saying he and or she was very bad or "evil". Another reason why a parent would possible physically abuse a child would be because they were abused themselves when they were younger. Second, Neglect: when a child is being neglected he and or she is consistently dirty and smells really horrid.