The Impact of Child Abuse in the United Kingdom

This article discusses the impact of child abuse in the United Kingdom and how The Children Act 1989 provides protection to children from neglect and physical harm. The legislation empowers service providers to reduce the cases of child abuse and improve the quality of life of children. The article also explores the ways in which the chosen policy can impact child abuse in terms of service delivery and social care.

Health and social care policy
and legal frameworks

Table of Contents
TITLE..............................................................................................................................................3
KEY WORDS..................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

TITLE
The impact of child abuse in the United Kingdom.
KEY WORDS
Neglect, child maltreatment, harm, safeguarding, violence.
INTRODUCTION
Child abuse refers to not only physical abuse but it also includes the physical violence which
are directed at child. This can refer to a form of maltreatment in which they are not getting better
care and face different type of violence or threatening. Child abuse also include neglect which
causes of the main reason for the child abuse. Child abuse may include the failure to act by
caregiver or parent which can lead to create an impact on harm and different maltreatment which
needs to get better and effective care. There is different form of child abuse which includes
physical abuse, emotional or psychological abuse, physical neglect, emotional or psychological
neglect, sexual abuse and others (Glaser and et. al., 2018). There are large number of population
are getting highly affected through this child abuse. According to Crime survey for England and
Wales (CSEW) estimated that there are about one in five aged between 18 to 74 have
experienced child abuse which can have at least one form which includes emotional abuse,
sexual abuse, witnessing domestic violence. There were about 52260 children within England
who were subjected to get protection plan (CPP) and about 2820 children were getting child
protection register (CPR) within Wales. They have experienced neglect or any type of child
abuse from which they needed to get protection. Here, Children Act 1989 has been chosen
legislation which includes the Act of parliament and allocates duties to local authorities, parents,
courts and other agencies. This help to ensure about safeguarding and welfare of children. This
legislation has the aim to give protection and rights to protected through any type of abuse or
exploitation and get safeguarding against any type of child abuse (Szabo, 2019).

MAIN BODY
Ways through which chosen policy can impact child abuse in terms of service delivery and social
care
There are different ways in which The Children Act 1989 has impacted the service delivery
and social care. Here, legislation provide protection to children through any type of neglect
which can help in getting better and effective response towards their care. It also provides
information to parental responsibility. It includes the safeguarding from the any type of physical
harm and provide protection against them (Spencer and et. al., 2019).
Protection against the neglect
Here, it is essential to provide better and effective response toward the delivery of better care
and support which are effective and allow to get better care to children. Here, through using the
Children Act 1989, it allows children to get protected through any type of harm which are
associated with taking care and not getting exposed to any type of neglect when they need care
and support (Trail, 2021). Here, are many because which can lead to create the risk of neglect. In
this, it can includes getting busy in other work which can create risk of neglect to child while
taking care of them. There is other reason which can include intestinally where individual do not
like to take care about the health of other individual which are associated with taking care of
getting better and effective response. Here, through using the Children Act 1989, it can help to
take action against the individual who are the responsible for neglect within health and social
care. Due to work pressure, health and social care provider may not get sufficient time to provide
better and effective care services to children (Shaari and et. al., 2022).
Improve parental responsibility to reduce risk of child abuse
The Children Act 1989 also help parents to provide better learning about the caring of their
children. This also insist parent through providing better guidance about the way which can be
helpful in taking care of individual that are associated with taking care of children (Marsack-
Topolewski and et. al., 2019). Here, through this, The Children Act 1989 is able to provide better
guidance to parents which can allow parents to learn about taking care of individual within
health and social care. This is the one in which it is essential to delivery effective response
towards delivery of better and effective care which may help in providing better safety from any
risk of neglect while providing better care to their child. Here, The Children Act 1989 act allow
to provide better opportunity to delivery better and effective response towards the parents to their

children. This can involve in getting better delivery of care through parents and provide better
care which can enable them to ensure about good and improved life (Bunting and et. al., 2018).
Safeguarding from physical harm
This legislation also provides better protection through any type of physical harm to child
and assure their better care within social care services. This legislation inbounds professional to
ensure safety and improve the quality of life of children who are facing any type of abuse. The
Children Act 1989 also help children to get protection against any type of physical harm which
are creating high impact on the delivery of better and effective response (Zeanah and et. al.,
2018). This can enable them to get provide effective response towards any form of child abuse
and help them to get better care through protecting children from getting exposed to abuse. This
can help children to get better and effective response towards the service delivery and social care
(Bywaters and et. al., 2020).
Ways in which chosen policy can help in service delivery and social care
There are some of the ways through which Children Act 1989 help service delivery and
social care. These ways may include secure sufficient childcare to meet their needs, reduced
inequalities, empower them to take care of children during safeguarding. These are the ways
which allow legislation to provide some help and support to service delivery and social care.
Through using the Children Act 1989, legislation, it allows childcare service organisation
to use their guidelines and implement those in the service which allow them to take care about
the children needs (Wolford and et. al., 2019). This can also enable them to identify children
needs which should be basic and should be provided them for their better growth and
development. There is also need to ensure that children should get better and proper care which
are their rights. Here, care service provider should ensure about the service delivery which are
associated with taking care of effective response that can help them to meet children needs. This
can also enable them to take different measures which can allow them in securing childcare
which are necessary to employ in the service delivery. This can enable them to associate with
better and effective response (Read and et. al., 2018). Children Act 1989 allows care services to
use their guidelines which enable and empower them to take initiative which can enable them to
take appropriate action that can allow them to ensure about the using strategy that allow care
service provider to improve their service delivery and meet the children needs (Scoular and et.
al., 2019). This can also help in getting better care which allow them to take action and improve

their learning which are associated with taking care to meet the childcare needs. Children Act
1989 also enable childcare service provide to meet the service delivery and provide better and
effective social care (Thacker and et. al., 2019).
Children Act 1989 also enable service provider to use their guidelines which can allow
them to provide better and effective response in taking care about maltreatment and help children
to get better service delivery. There is also need to get ensure about the effective care which are
effective and help in getting better services which should be provided to any child. This can help
to improve the childcare promotion and help them in getting better and effective response
towards childcare (Fredriksson, 2021). Through using the legislation, it enables service providers
to use those services which are associated with taking care of the effective response in initiative
which can help in reducing the risk of inequalities (Liu and et. al., 2019). Here, legislation allows
to provide better and effective response which can help in reducing the inequalities within
getting different service and protection through any type of harm or neglect. This can enable
them to take care about the effective response towards the learning which are associated with
delivery of better care. Here, it is essential to provide equal opportunity to children to get better
access to healthcare services, care services and other services (Castles, 2018).
Here, through using this legislation, it enables them to provide better learning and help in
getting better care about the effective response which can associates with delivery of better and
effective learning that can enable them in providing better and equal opportunity to every child.
This can help service provider to ensure about getting service delivery which are associated with
care of children. Here, through using Children Act 1989 legislation, it allows service provider to
use effective use of the guidelines that enable them to user those for better and effective service
delivery and help to reduce the cases of child abuse. This can also have high impact on care of
children and reduce the inequality (Kelly and et. al., 2020). There is service provider who may
not able to get deliver better care services within the care organisation either intentionally or
unintentionally. Through using this legislation, it restricts them to reduce the inequality in
service delivery and ensure about the taking appropriate action that enable them to improve their
services and allow them in taking care of effective response which are associated with delivery
of better and effective response. This can also help in reducing the inequality in service delivery
and allow to get better and effective response toward the child protection which can be helpful in
reducing the cases of child abuse within UK (Sims-Schouten and et. al., 2019).

Empowering care services
Children Act 1989, also empower care services to use their procedures and legislation
which can allow them to use in their service which are associated with taking care of effective
response towards the delivery of better care and provide better response towards the child
protection and reduce child abuse (Aliverti, 2020). There are large number of cases where
service providers are also involved in not providing better care and support to individual which
are not associated with delivery of better and effective response and may help in getting better
care about the child and their better growth (Levine and et. al., 2020). Through using this
legislation, it enables service providers to use their guidelines and get empower about the
learning which are associated with taking care of effective response that help them to implement
the legislation more effectively and allow to improve their services which provide better service
delivery to ensure and fulfil the childcare needs and their protection against harm, neglect or any
abuse. Here, service delivery gets improve through strictly implementing the legislation with UK
that enable them to get better care and help in providing better social care (Hood and et. al.,
2020).
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it can have concluded that there are large number of children who
are exposed to the child abuse which restrict them in their proper growth and development. In
this, there is need to provide some protection to reduce the cases of child abuse within UK. Here,
Children Act 1989 is one of the legislation which is effective in providing better care and support
to children. It also provides safety against any harm, neglect, violence, physical abuse or any
other type of child abuse. This provide high extent to the service provider to consider their
guidelines to provide better and effective response towards the reducing the cases of child abuse.
This also implies about using different ways which can associates with providing opportunity to
reduce the impact of child abuse and improve quality of life. There is different way through
which it enables service delivery and social care. There is also some way which also enable them
to improve their service quality and delivery better safety and protection to children and help in
reducing the cases of child abuse. Here, some of the issues arises about the effectiveness and
measurement of its effectiveness within reducing the cases of child abuse.

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