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Report on Child Abuse and Neglect

   

Added on  2020-01-23

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3AC 1.3 Impact of social and cultural element on physical, emotional psychological, neglect abuse on children.............................................................................................................................3AC 2.2 Inform the professional’s involvement in protecting vulnerable groups in health and social care........................................................................................................................................4AC2.1 Examine the strengths and weakness of current legislation/policies relating to abuse of vulnerable.........................................................................................................................................6Conclusion............................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................82

INTRODUCTIONChild abuse is also known as child maltreatment. It is the act or failure to act by theguardians 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 isthe major problem that carries the attention of whole country (McCoy and Keen, 2013). Severalenterprises follow the policies/legislation practices that govern the working efforts in health andsocial care for abusing activities which are held by the vulnerable people. This report is centred on policies and legislations of healthcare and social carecentre that follows to take away the child abuse from the environment. Along with this, study isfocused on the impact of social and cultural factors on physical and emotional, psychological mindof 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 childrenChild abuse is a kind of act which takes place by the parents or other adults due to variousreasons such as due to poor financial condition. There are various impacts of social/cultural factorson 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 tointentional 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 likekicking, beating, shaking, biting, burning, poisoning, hitting and many more. The reason behindabuse to the kids is social and cultural life of the parents or adults which makes them to do wrongand unlawful acts with their children (Tower, 2010). The thinking which works behind this action isto improve the habits of child and makes them to meet the expectations of parents. Impact of thisabuse 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 poorliving standard in the form of abuse to their children for taking out their frustrations. There are bothshort term and long term effects to the health and body of the child. On the other hand, violence andphysical harassment by the adults with a child results to reduce his/her telomerase activity whichdirectly affects the lifespan. Along with this, immediate adverse effects of physical abuse is on thehealth, as it results to ill health, development of cancer, suffering from asthma, high blood pressureand many other disease.Emotional: Child abuse impacts negatively on the mentality, feelings and emotions of the3

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