Options for Safeguarding Children

Social Circumstances

Table of Contents
Advise the local authority as to what options are available in order to safeguard the children, and
what course of action you would undertake and why. ...................................................................3
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INTRODUCTION
Safeguarding could be referred to as course of action which is undertaken for the purpose of
promoting welfare of children as well as protecting them from any kind of harm or injury. In this
relation, it has been identified that safeguarding includes the protection of children from
maltreatment as well as abuse, prevention of any kind of harm caused to the health or
development of children, assurance of provision of a suitable atmosphere to children for growing
up, assurance of provision of effective care and safe environment along with execution of course
of action intended to empower young individuals as well as children to be exposed to attainment
of best and favourable outcomes. Present report has been conducted the advise to local authority
in context with the options that are available to safeguard children.
MAIN BODY
Advise the local authority as to what options are available in order to
safeguard the children, and what course of action you would undertake
and why.
Protection of child is an important as well as crucial part of safeguarding process.
It is mainly focused upon protection of individual children determined as suffering or probable to
encounter significant harm (Sibert and Debelle, 2017). This majorly encompasses child
protection procedures which tends to provide the in-depth details of the manner in which
response to concerns about children required to be devised. In other words, it could be
comprehensively identified that process of child protection majorly includes the safeguarding of
children from any kind of abuse, violence, neglect and exploitation in long term. In this regard, it
has been analyzed that the Article 19 of the UN Convention on Rights of the Child tends to
provide a guideline to protect children within as well as outside the bounds of homes. One of
ways in this relation to perform out child protection is by way of provision of quality education.
Child protection system could be said to be a set of government run services which are designed
for protecting younger people inclusive of children who are underage, and for encouraging
stability of family.
Now, there are many types of harms that majorly lead to emergence of need for child
protection and safeguarding. This is mainly because children can be abused in so any ways that
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