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Child Protection and Legislation : Report

   

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CHILD PROTECTIONAND LEGISLATION

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1FACT-SHEET 1 → TYPES OF ABUSE........................................................................................1Criteria 1.1...................................................................................................................................1FACT-SHEET 2 → INDICATORS OF THE ABUSE...................................................................2Criterion 2.1................................................................................................................................2FACT-SHEET 3 → PROFESSIONALS WORKING TOGETHER FOR REDUCTION INABUSES..........................................................................................................................................4Criterion 3.1................................................................................................................................4WRITTEN ADVICE FOR NURSERY MANAGER......................................................................5CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTIONEvery nation within UK holds the responsibility of formulating its policies as well aslaws that hover around education, social-welfare and health. Laws are frequently formulated forprevention of behaviour that could harm a child. This also has inclusion of required actions thatkeep children same from any harm. As per the current statistics, near about 57,000 children havebeen found out who need to be protected from abuse in UK (Johns, 2017). In response to thisthere are nearly about 93,000 children under care within UK. So the report will throw light uponvarious aspects of child abuse in UK as well as the associated legislation for protection ofchildren against any harm caused.FACT-SHEET 1 → TYPES OF ABUSECriteria 1.1a) Abuse : Abuse is regarded as an action purposely committed for harming other individuals.b) Protection : Protection is defined as a type of legal-measure whose intention is preserving therights and civil-liberties (Hodes, Armitage and Creighton, 2016).c) Safeguarding : With reference to the children, safeguarding is defined as the actionundertaken for the welfare as well as protection of them from any type of harm.d) Defining 'Harm' and 'Significant-harm' :The ill-treating of or impairinghealth/development of child comes under harm. Determining whether the harm is significant ornot is done by comparing him/her with another child of same age on the parameters ofdevelopment & health.When the well-being of a child along with his/her development is getting affected in asevere manner then, significant harm's threshold is reached.At a given time a could be made subjected to more than one forms of abuses. The childabuse can be classified into four official categories that have been briefly discussed below :I.Emotional Abuse : As defined by the NSPCC, UK, maltreating the children or either theact of neglecting them is regarded as emotional abuse. This type of abuse is usually foundout in between the relationship that exists among a child and his/her parent/carer. This isinstead not an outcome of patterned events or either a specific event. This usually occurswhen needs such as approval, consistency, affection and security are not met. All thesecome under the category of developmental needs. The manifestation of child abuse couldbe found out by the behavioural, affective, cognitive or either the way of physically-1

functioning of a child (Been and et.al., 2014). Some common examples include :insecure-attachment, unhappy, lower self-esteem, underachieved education. If the childis found happy then there is a possibility that is getting affected by some act that isemotionally hurting him. Also, in schools teasing by bullies may have lowered their selfesteem. II.Sexual Abuse : The act of enforcing a child for taking part in sexual activities is termedas sexual abuse, as defined by the NSPCC. This type of abuses occur when a child isforced to take part in sexual activities despite considering that whether they are aware ornot. The examples include acts of violence, inappropriately touching, making them watchinappropriate sexual-activities. In such abuses both males and females could be found tosolely perpetrate them. Often, it is found that adults for their pleasure often enforce thechildren to take part in inappropriate sexual activities. This causes them sexually abusedbecause it is affecting them b y providing harm. III.Physical Abuse : The act of abusing the child causing them injuries such as bruises, cuts,burns is termed as physical abuse, as defined by NSPCC (Types of child abuse, 2017).Such abuses usually result in actually or potentially harming a child physical way bylesser interactions, which comes under control of parents or any other responsible ortrusted person. There is a possibility that either single or multiple repetitive incidentscould occur. Examples of such abuses include either induced or fabricated illness.Symptoms of such abuse could not be clearly explained by aid of medical tests andusually are observed by a parent/carer when they pay visit to their child at hospital.Parents often ill-treat children on misbehaving. Some are found to physically beat theirchildren if they do not folow their instructions. This is another physical abuse because thechildren are being harmed by beating thereby causing bruises and marks on their body.IV.Neglect : The act of failing in meeting the basic needs and demnds of children is termedas neglect, as defined by NSPCC. It could be described within the terminology ofomission in which children suffer from either impaired development or any other sort ofsignificant-harm. These abuses occur because of being deprived from having food,clothes, warmness, safety, supervising, getting attached towards affection provided fromadults or providing medical-care (Darlington, Healy and Feeney, 2010). For example, notproviding adequate nutrition to child may affect his/her height or weight which might2

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