Child protection and safeguarding

Question 1

Four main components of safe guarding team

Answer 1

Advice, supervision, training and audit

Question 2

Multi agency working:

Answer 2

Medical, nursing, ambulance, police, education, children and adult social services, charities

Question 3

Aims of safeguarding

Answer 3

Protecting children from abuse and neglect, preventing impairment of their health or development, ensuring they receive safe and effective care

Question 4

Children’s rights

Answer 4

Basic needs are met, protected from cruelty and exploitation, given opportunities to play an active role in society and to have a say in their own lives, right to their own identity, parents are in a position to care properly and to the best of their ability, vulnerable children including those who cannot be with their families receive the best possible care

Question 5

Children’s Act 1989 key principles

Answer 5

The welfare of the child is the paramount consideration, a child grows up best in their own family, wherever possible families should be supported to achieve this, partnership with clients brings the best outcome, parental responsibility, participation of the child

Question 6

Child abuse includes:

Answer 6

Neglect, sexual abuse, physical abuse and emotional abuse

Question 7

Physical abuse may include

Answer 7

Hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning, scalding, drowning, suffocating, or otherwise causing physical harm to a child

Question 8

Normal bruising

Answer 8

Most accidental bruises are over bony prominences/on the front of the body, children pulling to stand bump their foreheads

Question 9

Areas accidental bruising is uncommon

Answer 9

Back, buttocks, forearm, face, ears, abdomen, hip, upper arm, posterior leg, foot, hands

Question 10

Characteristics of abusive bruising

Answer 10

Clustering appears commonly, may carry the imprint of the implement used, seen on the soft parts, head is the commonest site, in children not independently mobile

Question 11

Characteristics of abusive burns

Answer 11

Parental inattention/neglect/abusive, injury does not fit history, abusive burns include cigarette, immersion, contact, carpet, poured or thrown scalds

Question 12

Key features of abuse

Answer 12

Unreasonable delay in seeking help, inconsistent history which doesn’t fit injury or development, injuries to young/non-mobile children

Question 13

Sexual abuse key features

Answer 13

A child under 13 does not have the legal capacity to consent to any form of sexual activity, penetrative sexual activity with a child under the age of 13 years carries a life sentence, must pass on information which puts the child or others at risk

Question 14

Features of neglect

Answer 14

Neglect is the persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical and or psychological needs, likely to result in a serious impairment of the child’s health or development

Question 15

Consider for neglect:

Answer 15

Persistent infestations, non-compliance with medical treatments, failure to obtain treatment for tooth decay, repeated failure to attend medical appointments, faltering growth, inappropriate carer, animal bite on inadequately supervised child, injury if lack of supervision suggested

Question 16

Emotional abuse

Answer 16

The persistent emotional ill-treatment of a child such as to cause severe and persistent adverse effects on the child’s emotional development

Question 17

How to safeguard children

Answer 17

Safe healthcare environments, clear policies and guidelines aimed at keeping children safe, training for staff, access to advice and guidance, willingness to act, a culture that values children’s rights