There are many different regulations and strategies which are used to safeguard young adults and one of these strategies is the recruitment of staff and preventing people who may harm vulnerable people from getting assess to them. for example, the adults barred list. The is a list of people which either has a high risk of harming others or a probable risk of harming others. The people on the list are barred from working in health and social care settings and around vulnerable people. There are many different places where information is received from and this may include the police, courts, or health and social services. all this information is used to decide whether they are at risk of harming vulnerable people in order to decide whether they …show more content…
This is because it aimed to help provide better protection for vulnerable adults. One of the ways it aimed to do this is by creating a multiagency framework which required everyone in health and social care settings to start working together so that the risk of abuse or neglect is reduced e.g. by sharing information. This guidance also helped to identify those who are most at risk of abuse and the reasons for this higher risk. This guidance helped to reduce the risk of abuse as it helps to ensure that all the different agencies are working together, and no information or signs of abuse or neglect is missed. This means that we can avoid situations like the Rotherham abuse where there is a lack of communicate and nothing is doesn’t to help the person being abused, leading to disastrous consequences. It also to identify those who may be at risk. This is good at it helps to ensure that vulnerable people who are at risk of being abused, are being identified and support is put in place to reduce this risk of abuse. The no secrets guidance was reviewed in 2008 and a national consultation exercise was put in place to found limitations of the guidance. This lead to a report from this exercise being published. However, the government has not responded to be review. [5]
...children, young people and their families can be both complex and difficult. Social work practice is one of the most challenging as it involves work with a diverse range of both professionals and service users. However, there is more that one single reason for this. As all professionals, agencies and parents continue to work together in various different cases, a variety of skills are required including: communication, preparation, intervention skills, assessment of significant harm, research of current legislation and decision making skills, all of which contribute to the complexities and difficulties of social work. It could be argued that these difficulties are highlighted most in many public cases of child abuse; moreover these cases can be seen to be changing social work practice, affecting the difficulties and complexities of working within this profession.
Growing up I relied extensively on those around me such as my parents, as a child I did not have the ability to care for myself, I was not able to function as an adult. Unfortunately the majority of children do not receive the same level of support growing up. Lack of support commonly challenges disabled youth. Without support it is hard for disabled youth to maintain dignity that they set for themselves. Insufficient support produces a considerable predisposition to a lower quality of life or a loss of self-respect causing an imprint on their lives. Takes dignity away from disabled youth often causes them to their self-confidence or let their future slip away. The government must provide
This was introduced through the Children Act 1989 and allows intervention to families making sure the child is protected from abuse. There are categories of significant harm such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect and emotional abuse. It is where harm has already happened or is likely to happen to the child’s health or development.
Agencies working together to safeguard children must be aware of the maltreatment of a child. To ensure the Children Act 2004 is maintained in settings there will be policies and procedures that practitioners must follow. The Children Act 2004 was introduced as a result of the death of Victoria Climbié and was the introduction to the Every Child Matters 2004 agenda. The ECM 2004 aims to give the best lifestyle to children through its five outcomes. Settings sharing information with other settings and working co-operatively together helps to protect children from harm due to the influence of the Every Child Matters 2004 framework. The Every Child Matters 2004 framework has influenced settings by giving them and othe...
Adult foster care (AFC) frequently gives a supervised environment for adults that are unable to live independently due to weaken physical or mental condition. AFC is a state-funded program that transforms lives. Its services allow seniors and persons with abnormalities who need help with personal care tasks to remain in a home and in the community with a qualified and approved caregiver. AFC is typically secured for people over the age of eighteen. An extensive variety of residents are performed in adult foster homes, from those needing only room, board and minimal personal assistance. Residents are caring to those residents needing full individual care, or skilled nursing care with the help of community-based registered nurses. AFC is typically presented through governmental or private agencies. The home can give up to twenty four hour supervision for one to four residents. It may be organized by relatives who are unable to care for the adult in question. AFC is a caring system in which adults are put into group or private homes where they are taken care of by caregivers. AFC homes may be giving full-time to care for adults that need minimal support with the ability to personal care for residents. AFC is defined as a home setting in the community for adults who are
This is a website page edited by Sue Alford, the Editor and Director of Public Information Services for Advocates of Youth, a nonprofit organization in Washington D.C. This advocacy group promotes efficient sexual education and is dedicated towards STI and HIV/AIDS prevention. Alford contrasts comprehensive and abstinence-only education through a descriptive table that lists how they differ in curriculum, methods of teaching, and attitudes towards sexual activity in adolescents. This source will help me see the distinctions between the two methods of education, allowing me to interpret the pros and cons of each.
The age of responsibility should be when a teenager finally turns 21, at this age they are closer to having a matured brain and are allowed to do most things. Considering the age of responsibility to be younger than 21 can cause problems for not only the adolescent, but for others who are around them as well. In this essay the reasons as to why younger teenagers are at higher risks of things like driving, drinking, juvenile and so on.
It is equally important to look at the responsibilities of the social work practitioner and how they can address some oppressive and inequitable factors that influence the lives of young offenders. When we look at the child welfare and the Youth Justice Systems, it gives the impression that they take unconnected approaches in addressing the needs of young people. This view is to some extent reinforced by the way each system has differing aims and objectives when engaging with these groups and its focused interventions. As we are aware social workers will always take a welfare-orientated approach, which will seeks to engage with vulnerable groups and individuals who come to the attention of the welfare system. On the other hand the youth justice system will be focused on interventions with convicted offenders which seek to rehabilitate and reduce crime, however neither are as cut and clear as they may sound. The separation of focus is rejected further structurally, with responsibility of the youth justice system been placed under the control of the Ministry of Justice whilst the local authority social services department are responsible for the welfare system. Notwithstanding this very clear division in responsibilities, and how services and focused, it is also the case that victims and offenders are seen as being at opposing ends of the crime spectrum; with one end being the recipient of a felonious act and the other end the perpetrator of the
Munro (2003) states child abuse is treating a child in a way that is harmful or morally wrong however, goes on to explain it is hard to find a universal agreement of the definition of child abuse. NSPCC (2010) further explains child abuse as maltreatment of a child. This can be done directly by inflicting harm or indirectly by failing to prevent harm from happening. Abuse can be perpetrated by an adult or another child. Working Together to Safeguard Children (2013) states that it’s the responsibility of everyone who works with children to make sure that a child is safeguarded and their welfare promoted. The Purpose of this essay is firstly to discuss risk factors posed to Simone and Sasha through the scenario provided and highlight ways a professional should assess whether a child is suffering from an abusive or neglectful situation. Secondly the appropriate action that needs to be taken, and the support that needs to be given, and what services will be involved with the family in order to prevent a family brake down while safeguarding and protecting the children’s welfare, will also be discussed. Lastly this essay will draw on current legislation, guidance and procedures that promote multi– agency working in order to effectively safeguard and promote children’s welfare.
Due to the complexity and enormity of the problems faced by adolescent runaways it is almost impossible to overstate the myriad of negative forces that place pressure upon the youth. Sexual and physical abuse is prevalent among runaway youth, as well as substance abuse, victimization, mental health problems and problems with the juvenile justice system (Rohr, 1996). These problems are frequently seen in many facets of the youth population; however, the runaway population is often forced to face these issues without a stable home or place to stay.
This cultural discourse for collective accountability around child abuse, reflected in Failure to Protect, I suggest is emblematic of Ulrich Beck’s concept of ‘risk society’ (Gillingham referencing Beck 2006, p. 87). Gillingham deliberates the implication of a cultural discourse centred on risk is problematic as ‘Social problems become reconstructed as individual responsibilities and, consequently, governments are able to avoid risk to themselves’ (2006, p.87). In this fashion we can see the responsibility rests on those operating in the social welfare system in the form of risk based assessments (McDonald et al. 2011, p. 14; Gillingham 2006, p. 90). While the responsibility is further evidenced in the penalties of failing to report sexual abuse, which extend from the staff member or members being removed from working with children to incurring a five-year jail term (Vic). The main criticism I have with the Failure to Protect law is that in simply charging individuals within the welfare system for neglecting their role of responsibility to their client; attention is drawn away from the underlying dominant discourses or as Gillingham notes ‘the process of socialisation that leads adults to harm children’ (2006, p. 91). I want to stipulate further that legal
The current U.S. system of laws surrounding the legal age of responsibility has failed us. It is not built with today’s society in mind. Teens today are pressured to grow up faster than ever while every teen develops maturity differently. Society should change the system of legal responsibility to honor the individual development of each person rather than by an arbitrary age. We should change it so the age of adulthood in our country is determined by the ability of a person to prove that they are mature by driving, paying bills, holding a job or attending college instead of by arbitrary laws and set numbers. The system should change in order to have a more equitable judgement for the age of responsibility.
A risk can be defined as a high or low chance that someone could be harmed and how serious that harm can be. The development of risk management strategies is essential for the prevention of both hepatitis B and hepatitis C in the healthcare setting. The risk management process involves the identification of the risk, the analysis of the risk, the elimination or reduction of the risk, the ongoing evaluation of the risk management and efficient occurrence management of the accidents or infections that take place (Prevention).
Victorian Gvernment. (2006). Vulnerable babies, children and young people at risk of harm. Victoria: Victorian Government.
In accordance with the developments in our country, the number of teenagers who have social problems is increasing and their behavior becomes a problem because they disturbing the neighbors and others. Social issues are one undesirable situation that affects some people mentally as well as physically when facing it. this will make people view with suspicion and discomfort when looking at social delinquents. Those teenagers behave like that because of there is no other place to release their stress and problems. There are some social problems among youth in Malaysia nowadays, one of the social problems are baby dumping.