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Social Work Ethical Dilemma

   

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Social Work EthicalDilemma
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1CASE PRESENTATION................................................................................................................1LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................2OUTCOME......................................................................................................................................2CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3RECOMMENDATIONS.................................................................................................................3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4APPENDICES.................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTIONThe case study is about the death of Daniel Pelka in context with ethical dilemmas. Thisreport will provide a brief idea on how the improvement of safeguarding in schools can be done(Sim, 2014). The study shows about the opportunities missed by school staff, social services andhealth professionals to help him. After this case schools and social workers are very activeregarding the health of children because protection of children is the main priority.. Thisdocument will focus on the rules and regulation of government that has changed after the deathof Daniel Pelka (Devine and Parker, 2015). The purpose of this report is to increase the safetystandards of children, so that they will not have to suffer such kind of situations and no childrenshould die from family abuse. CASE PRESENTATIONThe case presentation is on Daniel Pelka, born on 15 July 2007 died on 3 march 2012. Hewas born in Coventry, England, died when he was just 3 years 8 months old (Lucas, 2016). Hewas living with his mother Magdalena Luczak and step father Mariusz krezolek. Biologicalfather of Daniel was Eryk Pelka. Daniel was having two siblings named Anna and Adam. Theirage was not disclosed. The cause of death shown in the police report was head injury and childabuse but it is more than that. The first language of the boy was Polish, and according to othersocial workers this was creating the problem for him in the school (Baier and et.al., 2015). As hewas not able to tell the problem he was facing to anyone. The social worker who was involved inthis case was Chris Horne (Ashley, 2017). He was the first one sent to Daniel's home with police.His role was to check whether the conditions of other siblings of Daniel's are healthy or not. Thecondition of Daniel was very poor as he was beaten by his parents everyday, they starved thechild, forcing him to eat salt and locked him in the room alone for days and nights. Later it wasfound that his weight was just 10.8 kg when he died (Sim, 2015). In school, the staff saw himbegging and starving for food on more than one occasion, but they ignored him, and on one dayhe was caught stealing the birthday cake of his teacher. There were various missed opportunitiesin Daniel's case. First is the ignorance of school teachers, as they are not bothered about thecondition of the child. Secondly, the social service care was not making any kind of efforts tohelp the starving children and they are not investigating properly to find out the real problem ofthe death of Daniel (Weston, 2014). 1
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