Social and Cultural Impacts on Child Abuse: Professional Involvement

This report explores the impact of social and cultural elements on various forms of child abuse, including physical, emotional, and psychological abuse and neglect. It details how social and cultural factors such as poor financial conditions, societal expectations, and imbalanced personal and professional lives of parents contribute to child abuse. Furthermore, the report discusses the involvement of various professionals, including national public health services, general practitioners, and healthcare staff, in protecting vulnerable groups, highlighting their roles in policy guidance, health promotion, and ensuring appropriate care. It also examines the strengths and weaknesses of current legislation and policies related to child abuse, such as the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 and the Children Act 2004, emphasizing the importance of balancing child safety with family rights. Desklib offers this document along with a multitude of study resources for students.

AC 1.3 Impact of social and cultural element on physical, emotional psychological, neglect abuse on children:
Child abuse is a kind of act which takes place by the parents or other adults due to various reasons such as due to poor financial condition. There are various impact of social/cultural factors on the physical, emotional and psychological abuse on child. These impacts are as
follows:
Social and cultural Physical:Physical abuse refers to the situation in which children sustains injury due to intentional 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 like kicking, beating, shaking, biting, burning, poisoning, hitting and many
more. The reason behind abuse to the kids is social and cultural life of the parents or adults which makes them to do wrong
and unlawful acts with their children. The thinking which works behind this action is to improve the habits of child and
makes them to meet the expectations of parents. The impact of this abuse very bad on the mentality and health of the
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 poor
living standard in the form of abuse to their children for taking out their frustrations. There are both short term and long term
effects to the health and body of the child. On the other hand, violence and physical harrasement by the adults with a child
results to reduce his/her telomerase activity which directly affects the lifespan. Along with this, immediate adverse effects of
physical abuse is on the health, as it results to ill health, development of cancer, suffering from asthma, high blood pressure
and many other disease.
Social and cultural Emotional:Child abuse impacts
negatively on the mentality, feelings and emotions of the
children. Those children who continuously ignored, shamed,
terrorized and humiliated by parents or adults due to hectic
working life, improper management of their personal life, etc
results to become emotionally weak. The reason behind such
kind of child abuse by parents is lack of their development
opportunities, job dissatisfaction, imbalanced personal and
professional life, etc which makes them to take out irritation
in such forms. All these activities of the leads to decrease the
self esteem and self confidence. As per the result, children do
not have good and effective relations with their parents and
they do not like to build new relations and friendships.
Children facing child abuse have lack of social skills,
communication and interpersonal skills, lack of development
both physically and mentally.
Social and cultural Psychological:Children who faces physical abuse by their
parents due to various reasons are at risk of developing psychiatric problems.
Parents hit, kick, etc. their children by comparing them with the other ones. This
comparison leads to affect psychology of the child. Along with this, adults also
injure their child for not meeting their expectations. Parents have many desires
and expectations with their children and when their child becomes unable to
fulfil them, they are abused by the parents. Such kids suffer from various types
of physical health issues such as chronic head, abdominal, pelvic and muscular
pain. On the other hand, youngsters facing the issue of child abuse results to
have disorganised attachment which leads to cause various issues such as
dissociative symptoms, depression, anxiety, acting out symptoms and many
more. On the other hand, there are some children also who faces child abuse in
their past but later able to manage their life unexpectedly well. Such people used
to have high interest towards the welfare and treatment of kids facing child
abuse.
AC 2.2 Inform the professional’s involvement in protecting vulnerable groups in health and social care:
There are various professionals’ involvement in protecting the vulnerable groups in health and social care are as follows
Local health board:
This board have statuary responsibility to work together or in
partnership with the local bodies, to make strategy for rising the
health of the children. This organisation plans and pay attention to
the hospital and family health service institute. This institute assure
the services are appropriate and according to the policies and
procedures in place to protect the vulnerable group.
Health providers:
All the health care practises have responsibility to protect the
vulnerable adults and children. Their participation support the
social services in preventing children from any kind of abuse or
neglect. This occupational group must have to understand the
guidelines from their social care bodies, defence society, and
trusties to protect the vulnerable adults and the sharing of
information. All those working in health field have basic awareness
regarding the protection of vulnerable adults.
General practitioners and primary health care staff:
Gps (general practitioners) and other members of the primary
health care team are placed to recognise the vulnerable adult.
This place also recognise the adults have problems which affect
the capacity to care their children. The GPS members of the
primary healthcare team and all practitioners indicate about the
abuse and know to make adult protection to social service. This
practiser also aware the network which lead health
professionals for advising parents about the child neglect.
These practitioners are the important part of the society in all
stages of the vulnerable adult protection. They must prepare the
information which needs to be shared to the social service
centre.
NHS trust and secondary health care providers:
NHS Trusts are liable for providing the alternative and
ordinary care in patients, outpatients, daycase and
health service community. All the hospital and
community staff have basic awareness in respect of
vulnerable adult protection and be alert to the
possibility of neglecting the children. The staff
members also document and share the information for
the protection of distinguish adult in the social care
organisations.
National public health service:
This national public health service is an integral part of the NHS trust and work. This guide the policies and
procedure which have responsibility for discharge of the statutory functions. It also provide guidance and advice
to the partner agencies such as local health boards to discharge their duties. The discriminate adult team with the
NHS is responsible for the policies and procedure which develops for the following area of group: learning
disability, mental health, older people, and substance misuse. It doesn't involve in the direct contact with the
service users. The NPHS, supply a extent of public health service which includes public protection, health need
assessment, health promotion, guidance and procedure development. The key strategies followed by NPHS:
 Identification of the threats to public health and providing the data for the design, delivery, observation and
assessment of system and services to address them.
 Health protection and health improvement through developing the high quality evidence.
 Cut down inequity and promote equity by improving the health of disadvantage group and people.

AC2.1 Examine the strengths and weakness of current legislation/policies relating to abuse of vulnerable.
According to the CDC (centres for disease control and prevention), child abuse includes both acts of commission and omission by the parents that cause harm to a child. The department of education is responsible for child
safeguarding. It sets the procedure and code of practice for policies and legislation system ensure the effective work for child safety. As per the scenario, the use of current policies and legislations in healthcare
organisations is as follows:
Children Act 2004: Children act is designed for supporting the healthy life and care of the child. It allows children to
remain safe in the healthcare set up and assist them for their quest and making helpful for contribution to the country. It
also helps to achieve the economic stability. This act deals with children's trust that have been equipped independently
of health and social care services. It also made provision funds, this investment trust is designed to carry off the poverty
and financial hardship felt by underclass children's. This fund also reduce risk of crime carried out by the children's. The
limitation of this act is that the court cases for the child labour are heard by the private bodies so there is no public
investigation in procedures.
Safeguarding vulnerable groups Act 2006:
SFGA's is pass to restrict contact between the children and the vulnerable adults and those people might do them harm.
This act also places a statutory duty on all those working with the vulnerable groups. The health care organisation needs to
register and receive an advanced vetting operation apply to the criminal warrant for non-compliances. Once the people get
registered, future health care professionals are able to check online status and free of charge. Under this act the care
workers control to abuse or vulnerable activity for the children's. The safeguarding vulnerable groups act 2006 provides the
legislative framework for the new vetting and bearing scheme. The scheme makes sure that the known present risk to the
children or vulnerable adults cannot enter the relevant work place.
Children and young persons act 2008
This act makes a provision about the local authority social work or services for children's and young persons. The local authority establish a care standards in relation to the agencies connected
with the children. This healthcare agencies provide professional who listen, relies upon to be there for children's and young people. In order to improve the process in agencies, they make strong
network to provide ongoing practical help and emotional support to the kids after leaving care home. Social care access better quality and appropriate housing for the welfare of children. The
authority make sure the establishment of act prevents social care organisations in abusing or neglecting the children. In this act,the lack of contact causes significant emotional upset for the
children which decreases their sense of belonging.
Children act 1989:
Its aim to alter practices and legal proceeding the welfare of the child. The act follow the principle that are primary responsible to up bring the child rest with families. This act also dealswith
disputes between the parents and the state regarding the security of child and upbringing of the children. This act also makes a provisions for statuary recognition to the wish of older children to
have an independent say on the issues affecting them. It also set out the general principals that are applied in any health organisation for prevention of abuse to the children.