Protection of Child and Vulnerable Persons

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE PERSONS 1
Protection of Child and Vulnerable Persons
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PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE PERSONS 2
Protection of Child and Vulnerable Persons
CASE STUDY ONE
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From the case study above, there is several point of concerns, one of the concern about
Leo is that, he has a problem known as the Down syndrome. Down syndrome refers to a state in
a person, where an individual is born with additional complementing chromosome (” 11 Facts
about Down syndrome | DoSomething.org | Volunteer for Social Change").
Secondly, Leo despite his health status, Leo still has no one to take of him and his
roommate during the night and that why, they have joined a bad company at the club. The
greatest point of concern in this case is that, Leo has ended up interacting with strangers and they
are using him to conduct their businesses in the name of paying him after the service. This case
has a social effects on people living with such disabilities (Young‐Southward, Philo,. and
Cooper, 2017)
Thirdly, Leo has engaged himself in a business that he has no knowledge about it. In this
case, Leo is being used by friends to run their business by asking him to deliver products that he
does not know what they are at all. The big question here remains, what business exactly is being
transacted by this people Leo call them friends.
Lastly, Leo has ended up not listening to those who are providing support to him against
this unknown business he is doing during the day on behalf of the friends who he just mate in a
night club.

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE PERSONS 3
Individual living with Down syndrome have an issue in taking care of themselves, and
looking at the case of Leo and his friend, they have been staying by themselves during the night,
which is not right because, individual suffering from Down syndrome are not able to take of
themselves. From that case, there is a relationship between the inability of self-care and decision
making. This is a clear indication that, Leo has no capacity at all to make decision on his own
(Reed, and Berrier, 2017).
According to the cognitive symptoms of Down syndrome, it very clear that, a person
living with this kind of syndrome suffers from; below average intelligence, such individual are
not very good from differentiating good from bad and doing the right thing. Secondly, they have
cognitive impairment, where such individuals are not able to judge situation in the right manner
(Horvath, Garagnani, Bacalini, Pirazzini, Salvioli, Gentilini, Di Blasio, Giuliani, Tung, Vinters,
and Franceschi, 2015). Thirdly, slowed learning, such individual take long to establish what is
right and what is wrong.
Adult with Down syndrome should be supported in the right way to understand their
rights just like any other normal person. This to allow and give them the opportunity to make
decisions and take control of their life and everything they engage in. independence amongst this
people living with such syndrome should be encouraged. In so doing this people with such
syndrome will be encouraged to do things their own way. Like Leo who has not heed to the
advice of those taking care of him, they should allow him to make is own decision through
guiding before withdrawing their support.