What is Child Protection?
Activity undertaken to protect specific children who are suffering, or are at risk of suffering, significant harm.
Who are ‘children in need’?
Those who require additional support or services to achieve their full potential.
What measure are taken by safeguarding children to minimise the risk of harm to children?
- protecting children from maltreatment
- preventing impairment of children’s health or development
- ensuring that children are growing up in a safe and caring environment
What is child abuse and neglect?
Anything which those entrusted with the care of children do, or fail to do, which damages their prospects of safe and healthy development into adulthood.
What are the 3 elements of child abuse?
- Significant harm to child
- Carer has some responsibility for that harm
- Significant connection between carer’s responsibility for child and harm to child
What document of legalisation is in place to protect children?
The Children & Young People’s Act 2014
What does GIRFEC stand for?
Getting it right for every child
What is the GIRFEC in the CYPA 2014 main points?
- Named person for every child as a single point of contact to provide advice and support to families and to raise and deal with concerns about a child’s wellbeing. Now voluntary schemes only not mandatory
- Lead professional where particularly complex needs or where different agencies need to work together. Not legislated for, and will remain a matter of policy and guidance only.
- Single child’s plan - single planning process for individual children who have wellbeing needs.
According to the CYPA 2014 when is it appropriate to share someone’s personal information?
- when safety is at risk, or where the benefits of sharing the information outweigh the public and individual’s interest in keeping info confidential.
- get consent if possible
- only share what you need to
What are the UNCRC ( United nation convention on the rights of a child)?
- The right to respect
- The right to information about yourself
- The right to be protected from harm
- The right to have a say in your life
- The right to a good start in life
- The right to be and feel secure
What is the aetiology of the responsible adult in child abuse?
drugs, alcohol, poverty, unemployment, marital stress, mental illness, disabled, domestic violence, step parents, isolation, abused as a child, unrealistic expectations
what is the contributing factors of the child in child abuse?
crying, soiling, disability, unwanted pregnancy (born at wrong time), failed expectations, wrong gender, product of forced, coercive or commercial sex
What are the 3 big concerns to parenting capacity?
- domestic violence
- drug and alcohol misuse
- mental health problems
How many kids does data show undergo severe maltreatment?
1 in 5
What are the 5 categories of child abuse?
- physical
- emotional
- neglect
- sexual
- non-organic failure to thrive
Which groups of children are more vulnerable to child abuse?
- under 5 yrs
- disability and medical problems
- irregular attenders
How many children in Scotland are killed each year by a parent or parent subsitute?
10
What are the 5 needs of every child?
- nutrition
- warmth and clothing
- hygiene and health care
- stimulation and education
- affection
What are 5 effects of child neglect?
- failure to thrive/short stature
- inappropriate clothing: cold, injury, sunburn
- ingrained dirt (finger nails), headlice, dental caries
- Developmental delay
- withdrawn of attention seeking behaviour
What is the short term damage of neglect?
- physical health
- emotional health
- social development
- cognitive development
What are the long term affect to adults that were neglected as children?
Arrest
Suicide attempts
Major depression
Diabetes
Heart disease
What is the definition of dental neglect?
- the persistent failure to meet a child’s basic oral health needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of a child’s oral or general health or development
What implications can severe dental disease cause a child?
- pain
- disturbed sleep
- difficulty eating
- absence at school
What can dental disease put a child at risk of?
- bullying (bad appearance of teeth)
- repeated antibiotics
- dental anaesthesia and extractions
- severe infections
