(PDF) Safeguarding Children and Young People

CHILD ABUSE
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN

Children Act 1989
• This act provides the framework that is legislative in nature for the protection of
children in England.
• The key or vital principles that is included in the act are as follows:
• The paramount nature related to the welfare of the child
• The requirements and expectations around the existing duties related to the care
of the children.

Children Act 2004
• It refines and strengthen the Children Act
established in the year 1989 Act.
• This further helps in encouraging the
partnership between the existing
agencies and further creating more
accountability.
• It helps in promoting the well-being s of
the children and the young people.
• Arrangements are made to promote and
safeguard child’s welfare.

Types, signs and symptoms:
• Child abuse is caused when
someone harms a child body
both physically and mentally;
• This creates a negative impact
on the child’s health, body well-
being and their development
(Widom, Czaja and Dutton 2014).

Physical abuse:
• This means when someone hurts a
child body, any kind of harm is
abuse, this includes the following:
• Burning a child.
• Bites or hit kicks.
• Throwing object at the child.
• Holding child under water
• Tying up the child.

Sexual abuse
• This involves activities like oral-genetical
contact.
• Being involved in the sexual activities of
adults
• Being touched or talked to in sexually
explicit ways either directly or indirectly
• Exposure to child pornography or
intercourse (Horwath and Tarr 2015)