Child Protection And Abuse Case Study

Within the Department of social services there are many policies, codes, and laws that must be followed when working with clients. These policies ensure that there is reason for all things that social workers do and that the clients are safe. One important code that the child protective service workers within the agency use is Virginia Code 63.2-100 which gives that the definitions of abuse and neglect as well as the different types. This code is used often throughout the agency when there founded abuse of a child. This code begins by stating that said abuse must be done by the child’s parent or the person responsible for the child’s care. So this means that if there is a child’s uncle physically or sexually abusing her but he is not the child’s care taker it is not a social workers responsibility to remove the child unless the parent is allowing him to abuse the child. Also, the code goes on to talk about neglect and states that if a parent refuses to provide care necessary to a child’s health or abandons their children. Another issue that this code covers is if a parent …show more content…
For example there was a case of suspected abuse at the agency of a nine year old Amish boy. He had falling from a window and hit his head and the parents did not seek immediate medical attention, instead they used herbal remedies to help the child during the healing process. Eventually, the child got worse and they took him to the hospital but he passed away shortly after. The child had a skull fracture and because it was untreated it caused his death. Even though this was considered about there was nothing that the agency could do because this was part of their religion and they do not seek medical attention for minor injuries. With using this code they determined that abuse or neglect was not a factor in this case and they had to close the