Children being exposed to domestic violence - child abuse

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Table of ContentsChild abuse ......................................................................................................................................3Prevalence of child abuse ................................................................................................................3Sign of child abuse ..........................................................................................................................3Professional steps to be taken when child abuse is detected or suspected ......................................4Collaborative roles with other professional when working with a child who has been abused .....5Legal, moral and ethical issues related to child abuse ....................................................................6Impact of child abuse on the child development and well-being.....................................................6The role and responsibility as a professional in reducing the incidence and impact of child abuse ..........................................................................................................................................................7

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Child abuse At a time when a parent or caregiver, whether through action or failing to act whichcauses emotional harm, injury and or death to a child is known as child abuse. There are differentaspects of child abuse that is sexual, emotional, neglect, exposure to domestic violence etc.Physical abuse can be seemed and notices and other type of abuse such as emotional abuse whichalso leave deep, lasting scars. Further the physical signs of child abuse is knowns as beaten-upchild symptom while this syndrome mention to many fracture which take place at the time whenchildren have received them at the time of accident. Physical abuse may be take place at the timeof stress (Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi, 2014.). Further, children who are socially abused maystill suffer from the effects after the injuries have healed. In physical abuse it includes injury thatis shaking, throwing, hitting or causing suffocation. For instance female genital mutilation is onekind of physical child abuse which is illegal and prohibited in UK. Prevalence of child abuse From the adults report it has been identified that there are 28.3% and 20.7% of childrenwho are being physically and sexually abused. National society for the prevention of cruelty tochildren shows generate report in 2014 in the UK which includes following:There were 69 children putting to death (Sigfusdottir, Asgeirsdottir, and Sigurdsson,2013.).44 children here died as the consequences of conflict of undetermined purpose.It is recorded that 7964 cases of cruelty or neglect.From the above result it show that there are large number of children who are beingmaltreated. On the other side government statistics show that in 2013 -14 there are 66000children in England who were bring up to local authority social care services. Sign of child abuse There are some sign of physically abused in caregiver and parents which are as follows:Cannot or do not want to explain injury of child, or they explained in such a way whichdo not make any sense. Indicates that child is not responsible or a liar (Sigfusdottir, Asgeirsdottir, andSigurdsson, 2013)Not provide medical care on time or make delay in providing care.

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Any problem which take place in school or home and blame a child for that problems. Uses of harsh physical evidence or ask teachers to do so. Care giver of parents keep from school, clubs and churchParents or caregiver show little concern to the childThere are some sign of physical abuse in child which are as follows:PhysicalAny harm to a child which is not creep yet Injuries which can be seen At various stage of healing, injuries can be shownUnexplained injuries that is fractures, burns and bruisesNot provided medical treatment. Professional steps to be taken when child abuse is detected or suspected There are some professional such as school teacher, nurses, polices who are legally duty-boundto report if they detected any child abuse (Finkelhor, Turner, and Hamby, 2013). Along with thisany person who think that any person any child is physically abuse then it need to report to childprotection. It is a duty of professional to act if any child abuse is detected or suspected. It isimportant involve senior colleagues and share information. Further if it has been identified that achild is in danger then professional must act in the child best interest. As per according to theGeneral medical council guidance it is a duty of all professional to report concerns that child is atrisk (Kemp, Maguire and Dunstan, 2014). Further, child protection will be measure and wherenecessary investigation will be done if a child is at risk of significant harm. There are somepotential sign of child abuse which individual must know in order to protect in children formphysical abuse. Responding to sign of child abuse:it need to consider most effective responses which will make sure that child protectionand well-being. It cover following points which are mentioned below:Make notes: If any sign is identified then it should be record whatever is observed.Continue to observe: It is important to continue record observe.Consult colleagues: Need to get support from colleagues and supervisors. Then need tocompare and brainstorm possible strategies.

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