Every state has child abuse reporting and protection laws. The purpose of these laws is to protect children from neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse and psychological abuse. Reporting is the first step in the child protection process. Anyone who suspects a child is being abused can file a report with child protective services or law enforcement. Most states have mandatory reporting laws for people who have jobs working with children such as school employees including teachers, physicians,…
Child protection is one of the most important ways of safeguarding children and promoting their overall welfare. Safeguarding children is an umbrella concept that covers the overall welfare of children including health, safety, learning, growth and development. It is necessary for teachers, parents and other caregivers to protect children from harm, abuse and neglect in order to promote their welfare. Every child has unique interests, attitudes and needs. In this regard, a teacher or caregiver…
the child’s emotional development and sense of self-worth through insults, intimidation, and physical aggression. This will affect a child from being social with his or her peers because of language neglect. Physical and Emotional/Psychological abuse harms the developmental process of trust and forming a stable relationship with other people. This deprives the child the ability to develop motor and fine motor skills that are important for their learning and later in life. Childhood abuse…
“Neglect is defined as the failure to provide or meet a child’s basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter (physical and psychological) that affects the child’s health, safety, and well-being” (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2014). Neglect can have adverse effects on a child’s development and failure to thrive on developmental milestone. This can affect the speech and language development of the child, educational attainments and impact on the health and wellbeing of the child in later…
Karen mentioned that she is not cooperating with CW. Amber is not willing to engage in MH services and a chronic child neglect behavior. Karen provided us a long explanation and examples about why Amber did not get or is not willing to understand the necessity for her to engage in MH services. This is right now the main concern of why the CW is not developing a family…
authors of this article wanted to expand the literature and focus on how child maltreatment can impact language development. Authors hypothesized that children who experience neglect are more likely to have delays in language development compared to a child who experiences abuse or both abuse and neglect. The participants of this longitudinal study included 74 preschool-age children who were in child protective services due to child maltreatment and did not suffer from any other outstanding…
what factors must be in motion that causes an individual to neglect and abuse a child? What lead up to the moment where somebody decided to offend a child; something so easily manipulated, and able to be taken advantage of? What mindset must a person have; their thoughts of physically abusing a child? Have you ever questioned what personal issues a person has to be dealing with, that made them contemplate taking the innocence of a child by means of mistreatment for their own personal pleasure,…
of any known or suspected abuse situations that a child is abused or neglected. A report should be made when there is a reasonable cause to believe that a child or adolescent has been abused or neglected or is in danger of being abused. A report of suspected abuse is only a request for an investigation. The person making the report does not need to prove the abuse; Investigation and validation of child abuse reports are the responsibilities of child protective services workers. If additional…
in a supportive environment. The first priority as teachers is to develop a responsive relationship with each child and make the classroom a safe and predictable place. With this foundation, you can scaffold children learning and practice of the executive function skills especially emotional regulation or self-control that are such important keys to resilience. Simply the fact that a child has…
ways as: information about children or young people can be shared with parents or carers but only about their own child or children. Parents/ carers should not be allowed any access to any other child’s books, marks and progress at any given time. However, parents and carers should be made aware that information regarding their child will be shared with the receiving school when that child leaves the setting. Any information…