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Title: Safeguarding Children.


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Safeguarding Children.
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What has this to do with me?
  • Protecting children is everyones responsibility
  • If you aware of anything that may impair an
    adults ability to care for a child e.g substance
    or alcohol misuse, physical or mental illness,
    then you have a duty of care to the child even
    when the child is not your patient.

3
Where can I get advice?
  • From your line manager or from the Trust named
    child protection professionals
  • xxxx - xxxx
  • Nurse Consultant Safeguarding Children
  • xxxx - xxxx
  • Consultant Paediatrician
  • xxxx xxxx
  • Senior Midwife

4
Child protection in England
  • 26,400 children are on the child protection
    register (2006)
  • Each week 3 children die following abuse and
    neglect
  • Homicide rates for under 1 year are 5 times
    greater than the average
  • 80 of child homicides are carried out by a
    parent and 10 by a stranger

5
A Child is
  • a person under the age of eighteen
  • (Children Act 1989)

6
What is abuse?
  • A person may abuse or neglect a child by
  • inflicting harm
  • or failing to act to prevent harm.
  • Children may be abused in
  • a family
  • an institutional or community setting
  • By those known to them or, more rarely, by a
    stranger.
  • Working Together to Safeguard children 2006

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Physical Abuse
May involve Hitting, Shaking, throwing,
poisoning, burning or scalding, drowning,
suffocating or otherwise causing physical harm to
the child. Fabricated or Induced Illness by
Proxy Parent or carer feigns symptoms of, or
deliberately causes ill health in
child. Working Together to Safeguard Children
DOH 2006
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Sexual Abuse
Involves forcing or enticing a child to take part
in sexual activities, including prostitution,
whether or not the child is aware of what is
happening. Physical contact - penetrative or
non-penetrative Non-contact activities -
involving children in looking at, or in the
production of, sexual online images, watching
sexual activities or encouraging children to
behave in sexually inappropriate ways. Working
Together to safeguard children, DOH 2006
9
Emotional Abuse
The persistent emotional ill-treatment of a child
such as to cause severe and persistent adverse
effects on the childs emotional development.
  • Worthless or unloved inadequate or valued only
    in so far as they meet the needs of another
    person
  • May feature age or developmentally inappropriate
    expectations being imposed on children.
  • May involve seeing or hearing the ill-treatment
    of another or involve serious bullying or
    causing children frequently to feel frightened
    or in danger, or the exploitation or corruption
    of children.
  • Some level involved in all types of
    ill-treatment but may occur alone.
  • Working Together to Safeguard Children DOH
    2006

10
Domestic Violence
  • Every week in the UK two women are killed by
    current or former partners.
  • Domestic violence accounts for one quarter of all
    violent crime.
  • 1 in 4 women aged 16-59 1 in 7 men have been
    physically assaulted by a current or former
    partner.
  • Domestic violence often starts or intensifies
    during pregnancy.
  • Domestic Violence Resource Pack DOH 2000

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Neglect
The persistent failure to meet a childs basic
physical and/or psychological needs, likely to
result in the serious impairment of the childs
health or development.
  • May involve a parent or carer failing to
  • provide adequate food, shelter and clothing
    (including exclusion from home or
    abandonment)
  • protect a child from physical and emotional harm
    or danger
  • ensure adequate supervision (including use of
    inadequate caregivers)
  • ensure access to appropriate medical treatment
  • It can also include neglect of, or
    unresponsiveness to, a childs basic emotional
    needs
  • Working Together to Safeguard Children, 2006

12
Immediate Action to safeguard a child
  • Share
  • your suspicions with your line manager or the
    Trust named child protection professionals
  • Refer
  • to Children and Young People Services (social
    services) so that the child is protected and the
    family receive the help and support they need to
    look after their child. Follow up in writing
    within 48 hours.
  • Record
  • your findings and actions taken. Where
    appropriate draw a diagram of any injury. Dont
    forget time, date and signature.

13
Child Abuse can happen anywhere.
  • Cases of abuse have been found in poor and
    affluent homes, in rural and urban settings, in
    all religious groups and races. (Bennett
    1990)
  • And by anyone
  • Parents, relatives family members,
  • Friends, neighbours and baby sitters,
  • Clinical staff, paid care staff, volunteers and
    associates.

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Protecting children is everybodys business.
  • Your information however small may be the key.
  • Report it - Dont expect someone else to!!!
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