XGBCYP4202 - UK Child Abuse: Policy and Legal Frameworks Timeline

This report provides an overview of child abuse protection policies and legal frameworks in the UK. It includes a timeline of key legislation such as the Children Act 1989, Every Child Matters 2003, and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018. The report analyzes the aims, importance, and impacts of these policies, highlighting their role in improving child welfare and safeguarding practices. It concludes that these acts and policies are crucial for developing informative growth in child care protection, mitigating child care wellness, and improvising awareness functionally within the UK.

Child Abuse

TABLE OF CONTENT
Timeline:.................................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................6
MAIN BODY..........................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................9

Timeline:
Children act -1989 Lord Laming Report - 2003 Every Child Matters - 2003
 Importance: Child Act is
important as it helps to
know the right to be
protected form the abuse
and exploitation.
 Aim: To give the child
right to protection from
 Importance: It is important
for strong leadership
nationally for effective
working between
children’s services for their
safety.
 Aim: To safeguard the
 Importance: It helps the
children to seek help and
enjoy the positive
environment framed for
them.
 Aim: To ensure that all
children avail the

abuse and right to
inquiries and safeguard
the welfare.
 Impact: It impacted
positively by concerning
the welfare of children.
children from front lining
the staff to take
responsibilities of children.
 Impact: It had a negative
impact as there was failure
in child protection system.
support they need to stay
healthy and contribute
positive with the
economy.
 Impact: There is
positive impact as it
helps in supporting the
carers and parents
between services
enhancing workforce.
Child Act - 2004 Working Together to Safeguard
Children -2018
Child Safeguarding Practices
Review Panel - 2018
 Importance: The Act
helps in reinforcing
organizations working
with children to help
safeguard children.
 Aim : To improve local
working to be effective
which helps in promoting
child’s wellbeing.
 Impact: It has positive
impact on the
organizations and
children.
 Importance : The act helps
in working with young
people, children and
families.
 Aim : To ensure that the
young people and children
remain safe and are not
harmed.
 Impact: It has positive
impact on children as it
helps in safeguarding the
children from harm.
 Importance : It helps in
making sense from more
serious incidents of
child abuse.
 Aim : To identify the
improvement which are
to be made to promote
and safeguard welfare of
children.
 Impact: It has positive
impact on the society as
helping to safeguard the
children.

INTRODUCTION
Child abuse in UK has been found to be major concern, in providing better protection
standards for all children. It increases long term contributions within effective childcare benefits
being given to children, where specific learning and engagement in optimum health care
standards among children care. UK has been further taking best steps and strategies to mitigate
optimum vision, and determine technical improvement for improvising child care abuse cases.
Child abuse further has been found to be also one of the major parameter, where extended
determined improvement in UK policies have been focused on. Report will determine focus
towards most essential acts, policies developed within UK for reporting child abuse incidents and
prioritizing varied new strategies to provide better care.
MAIN BODY
National documents regarding child abuse protection in UK has been found to be widely
essential, in providing wider scale safety measures and determining optimum better adoption of
child abuse protection. UK has various child abuse acts, programs and strategies undertaken for
protecting child abuse diversely. There are various acts and policies undertaken, within UK to
analyze strategies for protecting child abuse systematically and undertaking priorities for
creating awareness (Klein, 2013).
The inclusion of child care strategies, variedly plays most essential role for primitive
improvement within availability competently towards diverse benchmarks. Children act 1989
aims to give the child right to protection from abuse so that they are safeguarded from the harm
which have been facing or may have faced (Ham, 2009)
 Children Act, 1989 - The Child Act 1989 is the UK act which helps in allocating local
authorities in the UK. This is the right which helps the child from falling into any type of
abuse and exploitation. This also helps in addressing to their welfare such that they are
able to create value for the aspects that the children are being protected at large scale
(Hudson, 2013). It is also understood that children are best taken care of within the
family surroundings and not in the external environment. It helps in giving every child

right to protection from the harm and safeguarding them towards the harm which they
face.
The UK allocates duties to the authorities which are residing locally to ensure that the children
are being taken care of and are protected at large scale. This also helps in promoting their welfare
towards how effectively he local authorities and parents are being concerned n taking care of
their children. The country UK has undertaken the aspects as to how the care is being provided to
the children such that if they face any type of abuse, proper care is being provided to them
concerning their issues and problems to solve at large scale by following the act and its rules.
 Every Child Matters, 2003 – It is a comprehensive program for wide reaching the
services of children for their education, social services, community organizations etc.
This act helps in addressing the aspects as to how effectively and in appropriate manner
the care services are provided to the children and how the organizations are taking care
of the children (Ham, 2004). Every Child Matters Act helps in encouraging the aspects
that there are being acts which helps in addressing the major concerns of the children
residing in UK as this act is being taken into consideration within UK. Every Child
Matters has helped in signifying that care is to be provided to each and every child
inspite of their gender, race etc.
The UK systematically aims to address the better aspects by taking care of the children by
supporting in their needs to stay healthy and safe. This act also helps in achieving the positive
contribution for the aspects of economic wellbeing to be created and promoted effectively and in
appropriate manner. The UK government is taking care of the aspects as to how the addressing
of the safeguarding the children for protecting them from the abuse which they face. This act
also has positive impact on the economy so that safeguarding of the children is being done for
the children and they do not face any abuse or exploitation. (Glasby & Dickinson, 2008).
 Working Together to Safeguard Children, 2018 – This act which is Working
Together to Safeguard Children, 2018 which helps in addressing the fact that the care is
being provided to the children by the parents by also working with the young people,
families and children. This act helps in aiming that care is provided to the young people,
families and children at large scale such that they are not harmed and are safeguarded at
large scale and so not feel insecure This act also aims to ensure that this act provides all

securities and the safety measures to the young people, families and children effectively
(Hugman, 1991). This act works together to safeguard the children so that they are able
to take care of themselves. This act is being followed in UK as it helps them to take care
of the children in their country against any type of abuse or exploitation which they face.
UK has been addressing this Act for the specification that care is being provided to the children
on aspects as to how effectively the act is being followed and the care concerns are being
mentioned at large scale. The country has been taking concern to provide all positive aspects of
care so that there is safeguarding of the children. There are aspects as to how the care is being
provided to the children and how they are ensuring the ways to positively work on the act so that
there are less number of cases of child abuse and exploitation.
All above discussed acts have been found to be crucial for identifying varied functional
importance in child protection services, and extended wellness essentially adopted in Child care
policies within UK. This has been also found to be diverse up optimized diversity, for mitigating
child care wellness and improvising awareness functionally (Baggot, 2013).
Therefore, these acts which have been explained helps in focusing on the positive impacts
as to how the child care can be taken and how effectively the care is being provided to the
children along with parents such that they feel safe and secure while remaining in the positive
environment. These acts also helped in addressing the impacts, aims and importance as to how
the changes are being taken place within the aspects of addressing the care which are associated
with child care. There are certain aspects as to how the acts play an important part in knowing
that the child care is an important concern for the individuals and the country and therefore care
is being provided as per the rules and regulations which are followed within this act. The acts
also help in improvising and enhancing the health and wellness such that the economics
conditions are also balanced and the care is being provided to the children at large scale.
Conclusion
The report has concluded that child protection acts and policies undertaken in UK are
widely essential, to further develop new scale informative growth in child care protection
diversely. Study has summarized inclusion of various acts such as Children Act 1989, Lord
Laming Report, 2003, Every Child Matters 2003, Child Act 2004, Working Together to
Safeguard Children 2018, Child Safeguarding Practices Review Panel, 2018 were being analyzed

and explained in detail which helped in addressing the aspects as to how effectively the acts were
being undertaken and how care can be major concern to be provided to the children, parents etc
(Johnson & Desouza, 2008). Study has summarized in detail importance of national policies, and
extended wellness taken up within acts of child care abuse prevention. Research has
summarized in detail, varied parameters within various acts and generating optimum scale
improvement in child care services.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Baggot, R., (2013) Understanding health policy 2nd ed. Abingdon: Policy Press.
Glasby, J., & Dickinson, H., (2008) Partnership working in health and social care: an
introductory reader. Abingdon: Taylor Francis.
Ham, C., (2004) Health policy in Britain: the politics and organisation of the National Health
Service. 5th ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan.
Ham, C., (2009) Health policy in Britain 6th ed. London: Palgrave.

Hudson, B., (2013) Competition and collaboration in the “New NHS.” London : Centre for
Health and the Public Interest.
Hugman, R., (1991) Power in caring professions. London: Palgrave.
Johnson, J., & Desouza, C., (2008) (eds.) Understanding health and social care 2nd. ed. London:
Sage Publications.
Klein, R., (2013) The new politics of the NHS : from creation to reinvention 7th ed. London:
Radcliffe Publishing.