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What does child protection include?
Child protection is the safeguarding of children from violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect. At the level of prevention, their aim includes supporting and strengthening families to reduce social exclusion, and to lower the risk of separation, violence and exploitation.
Why would a child be put on the child protection register?
Each Health and Social Care Trust (HSC Trust) is required to keep a register of every child/young person in its area who is considered to be suffering from, or likely to suffer, significant harm and for whom there is a Child Protection Plan.
What is the aim of child protection?
The overall aims of the Child Protection Plan are: To ensure the child is safe and prevent him or her from suffering further harm by supporting the strengths, addressing the vulnerabilities and risk factors and helping meet the child’s unmet needs; To promote the child’s welfare, health and development; and.
What is child protection and why is it important?
The most important outcomes of child protection are to prevent violence, abuse and exploitation, and to ensure displaced children access to protection services, by establishing or supporting national and community-level child protection systems.
What are the stages of child protection?
Tier 1: No additional needs. These are children with no additional needs; all their health and developmental needs will be met by universal services.
What is the difference between child in need and child protection?
A child in need plan operates under section 17 of The Children Act 1989 and doesn’t have statutory framework for the timescales of the intervention. A child protection plan operates under section 47 of The Children Act 1989, and happens when a child is regarded to be suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm.
What are the 6 principles of child?
The Care Act
- Accountability.
- Empowerment.
- Partnership.
- Prevention.
- Proportionality.
- Protection.
What are 6 principles of safeguarding?
What are the six principles of safeguarding?
- Empowerment. People being supported and encouraged to make their own decisions and informed consent.
- Prevention. It is better to take action before harm occurs.
- Proportionality. The least intrusive response appropriate to the risk presented.
- Protection.
- Partnership.
- Accountability.
What is child safety and protection?
Child Safety and Protection Programme The main focus of the programme is reduction of corporal punishment in schools, decrease of sexual and gender based violence amongst women and girls and elimination of bullying within the schools.