Child Abuse – The Failure of Social Services. The rate of abuse of children especially in the United Kingdom has grown to point that is now a national threat, one would have thought that the case of Victoria Climbie in 2000, and the case of baby Peter in 2007, would have attracted social services to the major cause of child abuse and try to stop it, but that is not the case today, and the situation is getting worse. The main purpose for this project is to understand and show why social services have failed to protect children from violence and neglect in the UK. To answer the question of why social services have to protect children this protect will talk on the following points which are: what is child abuse, what are the rights of children
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There are various forms of child abuse or maltreatment, which include neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation and emotional abuse or neglect. The forms of child abuse that will be discussed in this project will be the physical abuse or violence and neglect. Physical abuse is when a child is injured by a parent or caregiver deliberately, while Child neglect is when a parent or caregiver does not give care, supervise or support to the wellbeing of a child’s health or safety, which may be physical, medical or educational …show more content…
According to one a social worker In the inquiry into the case of victoria, social service has not yet learnt its lesson and it is the same or worse than it used to be. In the light of all this it might just be that social services need radical steps to be taken for them to their job properly, and a good example is the David Cameron proposal, which states that social workers, teachers, and does involved with the care of children should be jailed for five years if the turn a blind eye to abuse children, this was as a result of recent cases of child abuse in Rotherham and Oxfordshire. If laws like these are made and also social service workers are paid well and children services are well funded then the system will be much better. Another solution is that poor practice standards in social services should be improved, by increasing the monitoring of the practice to ensure compliance with the instructions of the law concerning the protection of children. It is of great important that social services take their jobs seriously and avoid human errors, in order to avoid continuous death of
There are various forms of child abuse or maltreatment, which include neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation and emotional abuse or neglect. The forms of child abuse that will be discussed in this project will be the physical abuse or violence and neglect. Physical abuse is when a child is injured by a parent or caregiver deliberately, while Child neglect is when a parent or caregiver does not give care, supervise or support to the wellbeing of a child’s health or safety, which may be physical, medical or educational …show more content…
According to one a social worker In the inquiry into the case of victoria, social service has not yet learnt its lesson and it is the same or worse than it used to be. In the light of all this it might just be that social services need radical steps to be taken for them to their job properly, and a good example is the David Cameron proposal, which states that social workers, teachers, and does involved with the care of children should be jailed for five years if the turn a blind eye to abuse children, this was as a result of recent cases of child abuse in Rotherham and Oxfordshire. If laws like these are made and also social service workers are paid well and children services are well funded then the system will be much better. Another solution is that poor practice standards in social services should be improved, by increasing the monitoring of the practice to ensure compliance with the instructions of the law concerning the protection of children. It is of great important that social services take their jobs seriously and avoid human errors, in order to avoid continuous death of