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Child Protection and Family Support Assignment

   

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Running head: CHILD PROTECTION AND FAMILY SUPPORT ‘A critical commentary on how my learning from the child protection module will enhancemy ability to work effectively in my support with children, young people, parents/carers and/or families’Name of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note

1CHILD PROTECTION AND FAMILY SUPPORTIntroduction According to the Child Care Act 1991, in Ireland, a child is defined as a person whohas not crossed the age of 18years, excluding those who are married (Fahey and Nixon 2014).In Ireland, two key authorities who have pact with the child protection analysis are ‘TUSLA-the child and family agency’ and ‘Garda Siochana’. The former one mainly assesses reportsfor a child’s welfare and safety whereas the later one focuses on the investigations ofprofessed offences as well as whether a crime has been committed. Child protection isimportant so that children who have been harmed or are at risk of being harmed are protected(American Psychological Association 2013). The main role of the departments safeguardingchildren or youthful people is mainly to explore the concerns regarding whether a child oryouthful person has been injured or is at a probability of remarkable danger and to givecontinuous services to those children as well as young people. Child protection is mainly theterm that is used to recognize governmental policies and its services that are working tosafeguard the children who are being abandoned or abused and to interfere when in need.Like many other countries, for Ireland the welfare of children are supreme. The departmentthose are responsible for child welfare and protection policy in Ireland includes Adoption,Childcare legislation and Children in care. Thus, in this essay the importance of knowledgeregarding child protection act will be reflected that is guiding people to improvise their abilityto work with children, adults as well as their family members. The aim of this essay is mainly to discuss how the learning from the child protectionmodule has improved the ability to carry the work with children, youthful people, parents orcaregivers and families along with a brief analytical commentary on relevantliterature/theory/research relating to child protection and family support.

2CHILD PROTECTION AND FAMILY SUPPORTDiscussion I work with people having mild intellectual disability in the disability sector inIreland. However, the Health Service Executive (HSE) provides as well as funds variousservices for the people who are intellectually, physically and sensory disabled. The servicesmainly included basic health services along with assessment, rehabilitation, community care,income maintenance, home care, day care and residential care respite. From my personalexperience, I have seen that people with disabilities are allowed to general health services ona similar basis like everyone else in Ireland. My practice is mainly of working in the fieldwith the people who are intellectually disabled. In Ireland, the Department of Health andChildren is the one who mainly uses the term ‘intellectual disability’ and define theirconditions as including a greater than average difficulty in the sphere of learning. Myexperience in such a home where I have been working with intellectually disables, is mainlyto provide services to children who are diagnosed with an intellectual disability and providingtheir families with plans for each life stages. My organization mainly provides families of thedisabled children with the knowledge and supports so that they are well informed about theirneeds and services. Therefore,through this child protection and family support module myability to communicate will get enhanced as I have to communicate with many disabledchildren as well as their family members to understand their concern and help them identifytheir needs as well as help them in their crisis situations. Many researches has revealed that there is a strong link between disability as well aschild maltreatment which indicates that impaired children are notably more likely toencounter maltreatment than those who are non-disabled (Jones et al. 2012). Among them,who are with specific impairments are at greater danger. Moreover, there are confirmationsthat interactions of age and gender as well as socio-cultural elements of disability effectsvarious types of maltreatment to those who are located amid the children who are non-

3CHILD PROTECTION AND FAMILY SUPPORTdisabled though this reason require further investigation. It seems the therapeutic services aswell as criminal justice systems frequently disappoint to take reports of the necessities andincreased vulnerability of the disabled children. However, in Britain very, less is knownabout what actually happens with the children those who are disabled and who are maltreatedand how the protection services inscribe those need (Radford et al. 2013). Moreover, fewstudies are there which tells us about what exactly happened to impaired children’s owndescription of maltreatment or protection. This learning however, have enhanced my abilityof being assertive with the children as well as their families regarding the child protection aswell as family welfare. In another research by Chadwick et al. (2013), it was stated that households in Irelandstays the basic suppliers of assistance to those suffering from intellectual impairments. Thus,the main objective behind their study is to map the life experiences of the intellectuallydisabled while including the members of their families as co-researchers. The outcome of thisresearch has highlighted that concern for a family member who is having intellectualdisability is an active and an adjusted process. Thus, having more awareness around childprotection can definitely help me understand the children as well as making their parentsaware that how the State care about them and so they render the various child protectionservices and supports so that their children can get proper assistance. However, this has beeninfluenced by the accessibility of proper assistance for the families who are going to advisethem, communication as well as associations along with facilities as well as professionals, theaccessibility of data as well as attitudes for impaired as well as governmental supports.Through these further approaches, which can deliver improved support to the family carers inIreland, are mainly supplying with flexible as well as timely support at times of emergencies,they must further offered services, supports along with entitlements and information to thefamily members before they need to fight for them. Thus,understanding this, my ability to

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