BDS3 Child Safeguarding Flashcards
What is child protection?
Activity undertaken to protect specific children who are suffering or are at risk of suffering significant harm
What is safeguarding children?
Measures taken to minimise the risks of harm to children.
Including:
Protecting children from maltreatment
Preventing impairment of children’s health or development
Ensuring all children are growing up in a safe and caring environment
What is child abuse and neglect?
Anything which those entrusted with the care of children do, or FAIL TO DO, which damages their prospects of safe and healthy development into adulthood
What are the 3 elements that must be present to be defined as CHILD ABUSE?
Significant harm to child
Carer has some responsibility for that harm
Significant connection between carer’s responsibility for child and harm to child
What is an act that protects children?
The children and young people’s act 2014
What are the child abuse categories?
Physical
Emotional
Neglect
Sexual
(non-organic failure to thrive)
What are the big 3 concerns for parenting capacity?
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol misuse
Mental health problems
What are markers of nutritional neglect?
Failure to thrive/ short stature
What are the markers of hygiene and healthcare neglect?
Ingrained dirt (fingernails), headlice, dental caries
What are the markers of stimulation and education neglect?
Developmental delay
What are markers of affection neglect?
Withdrawn or attention seeking behaviour
What is the definition of dental neglect?
The persistent failure to meet a child’s basic oral health needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of a child’s oral or general health or development.
What are some indicators for dental neglect?
Obvious dental disease
Impact on child - pain impacting sleep, school for example.
Practical care has been offered, yet the child has not returned for treatment.
How do you manage dental neglect?
Observe, record, communicate, refer
3 stages:
Preventative dental team management
Preventative multi-agency management
Child protection referral
Parent/ carer offered treatment and sent reminder
What are the 3 parts of the triangle for childcare? (what I need for people looking after me)
Parenting capacity
Family and environmental factors
Child’s developmental needs
