XGBCYP4212 Safeguarding: Children Act, Media & Child Abuse Reporting

This presentation delves into child safeguarding, focusing on the Children's Act 2004 and the critical role of the media in reporting and addressing child abuse cases. It highlights the Act's key features, emphasizing children's welfare, protection from abuse, and the right to inquiries. The presentation further examines how the media fulfills its responsibilities by raising awareness, reporting on child abuse cases, and influencing policy changes, citing examples like the Victoria Climbie and Daniel Pelka cases. It concludes that the Children's Act aims to create a safer environment for children, and the media plays a crucial role in ensuring their protection and promoting welfare.

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INTRODUCTION
▪ Child safeguarding refers to the
responsibility of organisation to ensure
about program, operations and staff
should not harm any children.
▪ This can help reduce the risk of harm and
providing better safety within the
community.
▪ There is a main role of media to review
and report the child abuse by providing
cover and report on the crime that other
related with against children.

Features of Children’s Act 2004
There are various key feature of
Children's act 2004. This may include-
▪ Children welfare is Paramount
▪ Children should be provided best care
within their families.
▪ Every child have right to get protection
from abuse or exploitation
▪ Right to inquiries to safeguard their
welfare.

Media fulfiling roles and responsibilities
▪ There are many story in the media which can help to
identify that media are fulfilling their roles and
responsibility. In order to creating awareness about
the child abuse and providing safety and safeguarding
to children.
▪ They also provide data related with children cases
which are effective and allow to take responsive
measures that can enable to share the information
and good practices to providing safety to children's
(Peckover and et. al., 2019).
▪ Media is playing the role and responsibility more
effectively by reporting and reviewing the cases of
child abuse.

Media role in cases
▪ Victoria Climbie was a case, where 8 year old
Ivorian girl was murdered by her boyfriend and
great aunt. It was lead to public enquiry and
produced major changes in child protection policy
within United Kingdom.
▪ Here, media has played an big role in covering the
the case. Media has taken care of each angle
through which a case can be assumed. Here, media
have cover all the procedure with a narrow view.
▪ This created a pressure for the government
organisation to perform the case more wisely.
Through media role play, it created situation of
sharing information to the large population about
the case.
▪ This attract large number of population and
government get in place to make some
implementation and change in the policy for for the
child protection.
▪ The murder of Daniel Pelka at age fore where
family member has been found guilty for the
murder. It has been identified that headlines has
been made for a month and provide the evidence
that a number of opportunities had been missed
that can provide the information that a child has
been suffered from child abuse.
▪ Here, media plays an important role in showing
and covering the the case of Daniel pelka who
was the victim of child abuse.
▪ It was needed to make the media that create high
attention of people of the country and attract the
government towards the case sesitivity.
▪ This create attention of government and focus on
making policy and regulation that introduce
mandatory reporting and create the changes in
Child Protection Act.

CONCLUSION
▪ From above discussion, it can be concluded that
Children's Act 2004 is developed from the
children act 1989 act. It has a purpose to make
country safer place for children and allow to
create better environment.
▪ It can also provide protection or safeguarding
from any type of neglect or harm. In this, there
is discussion about key features of Children's Act
2004 where safeguarding and promoting welfare
is one of the important topic within legislation to
focus upon.

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▪ Hadjimatheou, 2021. ‘Social care told me I had to’:
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