Child safegaurding Flashcards

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What is child protection?

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Activity undertaken to protect specific children who are suffering, or at risk of suffering significant harm

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Who are children in need?

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Those who require additional support or service to achieve their full potential

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What does child safegaurding mean?

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Measures taken to minimises the risks of harm to children

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What is child abuse and neglect?

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Anything a child caregiver do or fail to do that affect negatively the child safety and healthy development into adulthood

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3 elements of child abuse?

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  • Harm to child
  • carer has responsibility for the harm
  • significant connectiono between carer’s responsibility and harm
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3 national acts for child protection?

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  • National guidance for child protection in Scotland 2014
  • Children and young’s people act
  • Getting it right for every child
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GIRFEC have a national practice model that creates a shared language and approach to identifying and meeting concerns through “ my world triangle” , “matrix” and what else?

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The well being Wheel ( SHANARRI) , which have 8 indicators of wellbeing

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What are the 8 SHANARRI indicators?

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  • Safe
  • Healthy
  • Achieving
  • Nurtured
  • Active
  • Respected
  • Responsible
  • Included
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When can you share information about a child according to CYPA?

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When the safety of the child is at risk or when benefits of sharing outweigh the public and individual interest in keeping info confidential

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What are the 5 rights of children according to the The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child?

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  • The right to respect
  • The right to information about yourself
  • The right to be protected from harm
  • The right to have a say in your life
  • The right to a good start in life
  • The right to be and feel secure
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3 big concerns in the aetiology of child abuse relating to parenting capacity?

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  • Domestic violence
  • Drug and alcohol misuse
  • Mental health problems
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5 categories of child abuse?

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  • Physical
  • Emotional
  • Neglect
  • Sexual
  • non-organic failure to thrive
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3 categories of vulnerable children?

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  • Under 5s
  • Irregular attenders
  • Children with medical problems of disabilities
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What are the 5 markers of neglect?

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  • Nutrition
  • Warmth clothing and shelter
  • Hygiene and health care
  • Stimulation and education
  • Affection
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How would nutrition affect a child in regards of neglect?

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Failure to thrive

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How would warmth, shelter affect a child in regards of neglect?

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Inappropriate clothing , sunburn and cold injury

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How would hygiene affect a child in regards of neglect?

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  • dirty finger nails
  • Caries
18
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How would affection affect a child in regards of neglect?

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Withdrawn or attention seeking behaviour

19
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3 short term damage from neglect?

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  • Physical health
  • Emotional health
  • Social and cognitive development
20
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3 long term damage from neglect?

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  • Arrest
  • suicide attempts
  • depression
  • diabetes
21
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What is the definition of dental neglect?

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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

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3 indicators of dental neglect?

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  • Obvious dental disease
  • Child impacted ( teasing at school)
  • Practical care has been offered but child not returned for treatment
23
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3 stages of managing dental neglect?

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  • Preventive dental team management
  • Preventive multi-agency management
  • Child protection referral
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What happens in preventive dental team management?

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  • Raise concerns with parents and offer support , set targets and keep records and monitor
25
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What happens in preventive multi-agency management of dental neglect?

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  • Liaise with other professional such as school nurse or health visitor
  • Agree on a plan and review at agreed intervals
26
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The child is subject to which framework in preventive multi-agency management?

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Common assessment framework

27
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A child under 5 failed an appointment and failed to respond to letter from dental practice , what would you do?

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  • Send letter to health visitor of the child
28
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What is stage 3 of management of dental neglect?

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  • Child protection referral to social services by telephone followed by writing
29
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3 types of child physical abuse?

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  • Over chastisement (cultural)
  • Acute or compassionate (shaking)
  • Chronic and pathological
30
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From what date it has been illegal to physically punish a child?

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7th november 2020
Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Act

30
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4 Extraoral signs of physical abuse?

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  • Bruising of face
  • Bruising of ears
  • Eye injuries
  • Hair pulling
  • Fractures
31
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4 Intraoral signs of physical abuse?

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  • Bruises
  • Burns
  • Tooth trauma
  • Frenal injuries
32
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5 things would make you suspect physical abuse?

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  • Delay in seeking help
  • Story vague and lacking of detail
  • Account not compatible with injury
  • Parent mood abnormal
  • Child say something contradictory
  • History of previous injury
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What would ask when suspecting child physical abuse? and how you would confirm?

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  • How did the injury happen?
  • Does the explanation fit the clinical findings?
  • What is the reason for delay in seeking advice? and is it reasonable?
34
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Who you would talk to
to get advice regarding child abuse?

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  • Experienced colleqgue
  • Safegaurding nurse
  • Child protection advisor
  • Safegaurding doctor
  • Social services
35
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If a child is at immediate danger after referral to social services , what would you do?

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Contact the police for removal of child from the family