Analyzing Social Policy: Implementation of Child Abuse Policies in US

This essay examines the implementation of anti-child abuse policies in the United States, focusing on the initiatives by the National Conference of State Legislature. It identifies various forms of child abuse and neglect, including physical, emotional, and educational neglect, and explores the socio-economic factors contributing to these issues. The essay outlines key policies such as social worker visits, healthcare access, tax support, social services enrollment, housing vouchers, and family leave, while also highlighting areas for improvement, such as policies for homeless and specially-abled children, and the role of educational institutions. It emphasizes the crucial role of social workers in policy implementation and their impact on the effectiveness of these policies. The essay also references relevant literature and provides a bibliography for further reading.

RUNNING HEAD: SOCIAL POLICIES
Social Policy Implementation
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1SOCIAL POLICIES
The formation of social policies aims to ensure the individual welfare by means of legislative
regulation. The formation of the social policies is also greatly related with the social
development and hence there is a constant change and shuffling in the policies in order to suit the
well being of the institution (.Andrews, 2012) Though. Primarily the social policies are
formulated by the state and turned into laws by the judiciary system, it is however, often seen
that the social policies can be formed by an organization or institution, that acts independently
and have their own regulators. Of course those regulations have to tally with the laws of state.
This essay will deal with the formulation of anti child abuse policies as implemented by
the National Conference of State Legislature in US.
It has been reported that every year in US, a large number of children are abused either
physically or emotionally and most of them are treated as “normal”. The council has detected the
various categories of abuse and neglects. While the physical abuse or the emotional abuse refer
to the actions that can harm a child physically or mentally, the neglects can be classified as
Educational neglect, emotional neglect, medical neglect etc. The conference laid out a detailed
description of the probable causes behind such actions and formulated some evident based
policies in order to keep the matter in check. Crucial among those are:
1.Visiting of the social workers to each child at early stage of childhood.
2. giving health accesses to those who cannot afford it.
3. Providing tax related supports to the families.
4. Social Services Enrollment Rules and Requirements
5. Providing housing vouchers to families so that they can shift to a better resourced community.
6. Maternal and paternal family leaves.

2SOCIAL POLICIES
The policies developed on the basis of socio economic supports to be provided to the
families in order to reduce the extent are practical and beneficial. However, some changes can
still be implemented in order to gain more security for the children:
1. While most of the emphasis has been given on children living in a family, the homeless’
children are also subjected to abuse and need support of the law policies need to be
formulated specially for them.
2. Policies regarding the role of kindergarten and preschool institutions’ duties and
responsibilities in teaching the students about their safety must be implemented.
3. Policies regarding the educational facilities of the homeless children and specially able
children can be taken care of.
The social workers are argued to be involved largely with the implementation as well as the
creation of policies. The social workers aid the policies crafted by state or federal bodies to
oversee the extent of the success of an implemented policy and also influence the effective
performance of the policies (McLaughlin, 2017). The social workers also deal with the needs and
problems of the individuals and provide assistance to them. In doing so, they actually understand
the need of the policies in order to maintain their rights and their proper administration.

3SOCIAL POLICIES
Reference list:
Andrews, K. T. (2012). Social movements and policy implementation: The Mississippi civil
rights movement and the war on poverty, 1965 to 1971. American Sociological Review,
71-95.
McLaughlin, M. W. (2017). Learning from experience: Lessons from policy
implementation. Educational evaluation and policy analysis, 9(2), 171-178.
Spillane, J. P., Reiser, B. J., & Reimer, T. (2015). Policy implementation and cognition:
Reframing and refocusing implementation research. Review of educational
research, 72(3), 387-431.
Bibliography:
https://www.ncsl.org/Portals/1/Documents/Health/StatePolicies_ChildAbuse.pdf