Child Abuse and Neglect: Prevention & Support

The assignment delves into the serious problem of child abuse and neglect, emphasizing the government's role in addressing it. It outlines government efforts to raise awareness among parents about the consequences of child abuse through educational programs and legal actions. Furthermore, the document discusses initiatives aimed at protecting children from harmful environments and providing support for abused children.

CHILD ABUSE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
AC 1.3 Impact of social and cultural element on physical, emotional psychological, neglect
abuse on children.............................................................................................................................3
AC 2.2 Inform the professional’s involvement in protecting vulnerable groups in health and
social care........................................................................................................................................4
AC2.1 Examine the strengths and weakness of current legislation/policies relating to abuse of
vulnerable.........................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion............................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Child abuse is also known as child maltreatment. It is the act or failure to act by the
guardians those results in possible harm to a child. It includes all the forms of physical, sexual,
psychological abuse or neglect occur in a child's home or institution or organisations. Child abuse is
the major problem that carries the attention of whole country (McCoy and Keen, 2013). Several
enterprises follow the policies/legislation practices that govern the working efforts in health and
social care for abusing activities which are held by the vulnerable people.
This report is centred on policies and legislations of healthcare and social care
centre that follows to take away the child abuse from the environment. Along with this, study is
focused on the impact of social and cultural factors on physical and emotional, psychological mind
of the child and ways to protect the vulnerable groups in welfare society.
AC 1.3 Impact of social and cultural element on physical, emotional psychological, neglect abuse
on children
Child abuse is a kind of act which takes place by the parents or other adults due to various
reasons such as due to poor financial condition. There are various impacts of social/cultural factors
on the physical, emotional and psychological abuse on child. These impacts are as follows:
Physical: Physical abuse refers to the situation in which children sustains injury due to
intentional use of physical forces. Parents or other adults abuse their children due to the disorder,
disability or disease they have. They use various ways in physically abusing the children like
kicking, beating, shaking, biting, burning, poisoning, hitting and many more. The reason behind
abuse to the kids is social and cultural life of the parents or adults which makes them to do wrong
and unlawful acts with their children (Tower, 2010). The thinking which works behind this action is
to improve the habits of child and makes them to meet the expectations of parents. Impact of this
abuse is very bad on the mentality and health of children. It results to minor or severe haemorrhage,
broken bones, impaired brain development, shaken baby syndrome and many other problems.
Sometimes parents take their stress out due to their improper social life, financial issues and poor
living standard in the form of abuse to their children for taking out their frustrations. There are both
short term and long term effects to the health and body of the child. On the other hand, violence and
physical harassment by the adults with a child results to reduce his/her telomerase activity which
directly affects the lifespan. Along with this, immediate adverse effects of physical abuse is on the
health, as it results to ill health, development of cancer, suffering from asthma, high blood pressure
and many other disease.
Emotional: Child abuse impacts negatively on the mentality, feelings and emotions of the
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children. Those children who continuously ignored, shamed, terrorized and humiliated by parents or
adults due to hectic working life, improper management of their personal life, etc results to become
emotionally weak. The reason behind such kind of child abuse by parents is lack of their
development opportunities, job dissatisfaction, imbalanced personal and professional life, etc which
makes them to take out irritation in such forms (Vieth, Bottoms and Perona, 2014). All these
activities lead to decrease in the self esteem and self confidence. As per the result, children do not
have good and effective relations with their parents and they do not like to build new relations and
friendships. Children facing child abuse have lack of social skills, communication and interpersonal
skills, lack of development both physically and mentally.
Psychological: Children who face physical abuse by their parents due to various reasons are
at risk of developing psychiatric problems. Parents hit, kick, etc their children by comparing them
with the other ones. This comparison leads to affect psychology of the child. Along with this, adults
also injure their child for not meeting their expectations. Parents have many desires and
expectations with their children and when their child becomes unable to fulfil them, they are abused
by the parents (Newton and Gerrits, 2011). Such kids suffer from various types of physical health
issues such as chronic head, abdominal, pelvic and muscular pain. On the other hand, youngsters
who are facing the issue of child abuse are having disorganised attachment which leads to cause
various issues such as dissociative symptoms, depression, anxiety, acting out symptoms and many
more. However, there are some children also who faces child abuse in their past but later able to
manage their life unexpectedly well. Such people used to have high interest towards the welfare and
treatment of kids facing child abuse.
Impact of social and cultural elements is as follows: Income: It helps in living a standard and high quality life. Those people who are financially
weak used to use various kinds of abuses of neglects on their children due to frustration and
irritation. Individuals also compare their lives and status of society with others which leads
them to take stress. Generally, people physically or emotionally abuse their kids due to their
daily life issues and problems (Mešić, 2016). Education: Low educated people do not get proper employment and due to this, they face
different kinds of problems. This frustration leads them to abuse their children. Along with
this, parents compare the marks of their child with other children and hit, kick or ignore
them because of not meeting the expectations (Shura, Rochford and Gran, 2016). Imbalanced personal and professional life: Nowadays, employees are not able to manage
their personal and professional lives properly. This creates conflicts or disputes between
parents and it impacts negatively on children's mentality. Sometimes, mother or father abuse
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their kids due to disputes.
 Cultural factor: In some undeveloped societies, parents send their children for labour work
in industries. Higher authorities used to abuse kids due to their improper work instead of
guiding or mentoring them properly. Child labour is quiet common in the nations like
Bangladesh. Parents due to financial issue make their kids to work and earn money (Getaz
and et. al., 2016).
AC 2.2 Inform the professional’s involvement in protecting vulnerable groups in health and social
care
There is various professionals’ involvement in protecting the vulnerable groups in health and
social care are as follows:
Local health board:
This board have statuary responsibility to work together or in partnership with the local
bodies, to make strategy for raising the health of the children. This organisation plans and pay
attention to the hospital and family health service institute (Lutzker, 2013). This institute assure the
services are appropriate and according to the policies and procedures in place to protect the
vulnerable group of the child abuse.
Health providers:
All the health care practises have responsibility to protect the vulnerable adults and children.
Their participation supports the social services in preventing children from any kind of abuse or
neglect. This occupational group must have to understand the guidelines from their social care
bodies, defence society, and trusties to protect the vulnerable adults and the sharing of information.
All those working in health field have basic awareness regarding the protection of vulnerable adults.
General practitioners and primary health care staff:
Gps (general practitioners) and other members of the primary health care team are placed to
recognise the vulnerable adult. This place also recognises the adults have problems which affect the
capacity to care their children (Oates, 2013). The GPS members of the healthcare team and all
practitioners indicate about the abuse and know to make adult protection to social service. This
practiser also aware the network which leads health professionals for advising parents about the
child neglect. These practitioners are the important part of the society in all stages of the vulnerable
adult protection. They must prepare the information which needs to be shared to the social service
centre.
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NHS trust and secondary health care providers:
NHS Trusts are liable for providing the alternative and ordinary care in patients, outpatients,
day care and health service community (Annansingh and Veli, 2016). All the hospital and
community staff has basic awareness in respect of vulnerable adult protection and be alert to the
possibility of neglecting the children. The staff members also document and share the information
for the protection of vulnerable adult in the social care organisations.
National public health service:
This national public health service is an integral part of the NPHS trust and work. This guide
the policies and procedure which have responsibility for discharge of the statutory functions. It also
provides guidance and advice to the partner agencies such as local health boards to discharge their
duties (Tideman, 2016). The discriminate adult team with the NPHS is responsible for the policies
and procedure which develops for the following area of group: learning disability, mental health,
older people, and substance misuse. It doesn't involve in the direct contact with the service users.
The NPHS supply an extent of public health service for vulnerable people which includes public
protection, health need assessment, health promotion and guidance as well as procedure
development. The key strategies followed by NPHS:
 Identification of the threats to public health and providing the data for the design, delivery,
observation and assessment of system and services to address them (Getaz and et. al., 2016).
 Health protection and health improvement through developing the high quality evidence.
 Cut down inequity and promote equity by improving the health of disadvantage group and
people.
 To realize and sensitive check of the professional for the public health requirement.
 Public protection also addresses the different threats of the public health care (Pettigrew,
2016).
AC 2.1 Examine the strengths and weakness of current legislation/policies relating to abuse of
vulnerable
According to the CDC (centres for disease control and prevention), child abuse includes
both acts of commission and omission by the parents that cause harm to a child. The department of
education is responsible for child safeguarding (Moreau and et. al., 2016). It sets the procedure and
code of practice for policies and legislation system ensure the effective work for child safety. As per
the scenario, the use of current policies and legislations in healthcare organisations is as follows:
Children Act 2004: Children act is designed for supporting the healthy life and care of the
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child. It allows children to remain safe in the healthcare set up and assist them for their quest and
making helpful for contribution to the country. It also helps to achieve the economic stability. This
act deals with children's trust that have been equipped independently of health and social care
services. It also made provision funds; this investment trust is designed to carry off the poverty and
financial hardship felt by underclass children's. This fund also reduces risk of crime carried out by
the children's. The limitation of this act is that the court cases for the child labour are heard by the
private bodies so there is no public investigation in procedures (Shura, Rochford and Gran, 2016).
Safeguarding vulnerable groups Act 2006:
SFGA's is pass to restrict contact between the children and the vulnerable adults and those
people might do them harm. This act also places a statutory duty on all those working with the
vulnerable groups. The health care organisation needs to register and receive an advanced vetting
operation apply to the criminal warrant for non-compliances. Once the people get registered, future
health care professionals are able to check online status and free of charge. Under this act the care
workers control to abuse or vulnerable activity for the children's. The safeguarding vulnerable
group’s act 2006 provides the legislative framework for the new vetting and bearing scheme. The
scheme makes sure that the known present risk to the children or vulnerable adults cannot enter the
relevant work place (Mešić, 2016).
Children and young person’s act 2008
This act makes a provision about the local authority social work or services for children's
and young persons. The local authority establishes a care standards in relation to the agencies
connected with the children. This healthcare agencies provide professional who listen, relies upon
to be there for children's and young people (Oates, 2013). In order to improve the process in
agencies, they make strong network to provide ongoing practical help and emotional support to the
kids after leaving care home. Social care accesses better quality and appropriate housing for the
welfare of children. The authority makes sure the establishment of act prevents social care
organisations in abusing or neglecting the children. In this act, lack of contact causes significant
emotional upset for the children which decrease their sense of belonging.
Children act 1989:
It aims to alter practices and legal processes for the welfare of child. The act follow the
principle that are primary responsible to up bring the child rest with families (Getaz and et. al.,
2016). This act also deals with disputes between the parents and the state regarding the security of
child and upbringing of the children. This act also makes provisions for statuary recognition to the
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wish of older children to have an independent say on the issues affecting them. It also set out the
general principles that are applied in any health organisation for prevention of abuse to the children.
CONCLUSION
For day to day security and well state of some child to the country are vulnerable by child
abuse and neglect. Kid abuse doing harm to child intentionally or not provide the essential needs.
The government conduct the events to acknowledge the parents about the punishment given to the
vulnerable people for child abusing. Government also introduce the scheme to the abusing child for
prevention of the unhealthier environment in the country. Therefore, this has somehow supported in
development of the entire nation.
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