Safeguarding and Risk Management in Teenagers: Issues, Risk Assessments, and Interventions

SAFEGUARDING
AND RISK
MANAGEMENT IN
TEENAGERS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Safeguarding is the measure action that taken to protect children, teenagers and elder
people, promote the welfare of children and prevent them from harmful activities. Child
protection is the part of safeguarding and it focus on protecting individual and identifying the
cause of harm. Safeguarding is essential process that protect children, young people and adults
from harm, maltreatment, abuse and neglect. The safety and wellbeing of children, adults and
teenagers are more important as they come at workplace, it includes citizen health and social
safety, human rights and provide them safe environment to live free from harm. Examples of
safeguarding includes- sexual exploitation, allegations at workplace and radicalisation.
Additionally, this essay covers, issues and complication regrading safeguarding in teenagers, risk
assessments and interventions to improve safeguarding in teenagers (Sironen & et. al., (2020).
MAIN BODY
Safeguarding issues concern is about to worries that they may be at high risk, unable to
protect themselves against harm, abuse and deterioration, physical abuse, emotional abuse,
sexual exploitation and violence. In teenager’s increase incidents of self-harm and suicide
because of their personal and professional situation, teenagers at high risk and that is harmful for
the physical, mental and emotional health. Young people have adverse effect of environment that
living with abuse, neglect and violence and this can become increasing evidence because of their
social behaviour it results in self-harm and may lead to suicide (Wisener & Schuitemaker,
(2018). Safeguarding issues in teenagers mostly within family member are very complex and
they make decision to struggle alone, these issues effects teenagers with harmful activities such
as physical abuse in teenagers are change in behaviour, fear towards violence, depression and
angry outbursts. Issus arises with sexual abuses, with in organization, self-neglect and financial
abuse are most common in teenagers are unexplained injuries, person become angry and
depressed change in behaviour, unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STDs),
lack of care, bullying, fear towards staff member, lack of personal hygiene, lack of medical
appointment, unexpected cash withdrawal without permission to their parents, self-harm, alcohol
or drug misuse, smoking, accommodation problem, unemployment, increased incidents of
isolation, alienation from families these issues are most common in teenagers. Sometimes
chronic diseases are the issue which may lead to early death, unintended pregnancies are the
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