Child Care Case Study

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Child Care Children form the largest percentage of the global population. The population of children is high and so is their levels of vulnerability, especially in the modern day world where political, social and economic problems integrate, thereby necessitate a substantial number of challenges of child care. Meeting the needs of children, especially guaranteeing children of protection is not only an expensive, but also an extremely complex activity. This is the reason as to why the modern day world had numerous agencies working within and across nations to ensure that child care is attained. However, it is imperative to note that the presence of numerous organizations working to embrace child care could on one hand imply the weight with which …show more content…

The safeguarding of health comes with a substantial number of tasks, all of which cannot be accomplished by a single agency. Different agencies deal with different defined roles. Nonetheless, it is important to note that the challenges of safeguarding children are in one way or another related, which means that agencies dealing with different challenges have to liaise so as to ensure that children are fully protected. In what can be termed as the development of effective mechanisms of dealing with the problem of multi –agency cooperation and coordination in safeguarding children in the United Kingdom, Safeguarding Children Boards have been established to oversee the working of child protection agencies in the country (Webber, Mccree & Angeli …show more content…

Agencies working in the field of child protection should be in a position to comprehend the risks that face children. Cases of child abuse are reported at the local level, and the only way to attain critical information on the nature and types of risks that face children often come by way of the establishment of critical connections between local organizations and large agencies. Watkin, Lindqvist, Black & Watts (2009) observed that the status and expertize of agencies discharging duties with regard to the protection of children are hindered by the strereotyping of agencies by other agencies. Inter-agency working can be enforced when agencies working in the filed of child protection do agree on the professional code of conduct, which can guide the operation of agencies (Watkin, Lindqvist, Black & Watts 2009). At this juncture, it is rational to observe that there is lack of external control of the agencies dealing with child protection at the national level so as to avoid all the confusion that comes with the development and implementation of critical policies. The activities of agencies dealing with the protection of children ought tobe guided by a clear policy, but as it is in a substantial number of countries, it is apparent that the there are no clear policies to

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