ICA2 - Child Safeguarding

Question 1

3 main criteria in the assessment framework triangle

Parenting/Carer Capacity
Family & Environmental Factors
Child’s Development Needs

Answer 1

1. ) Parenting/Carer Capacity
   - basic care, safety, and protection
   - emotional warmth and stability
   - guidance and boundaries
2. ) Family and Environmental Factors
   - family history, functioning, and well being
   - housing, employment, and financial considerations
   - wider family and social and community elements
3. ) Child’s Development Needs
   - behavioural, emotional, and social development
   - family and social relationships
   - identity, self care and independance

Question 2

4 categories of abuse

Answer 2

1. ) Physical
   - includes fabricated or induced illness
2. ) Sexual
   - sexual exploitation is a form of child sexual abuse

3.) Emotional

4. ) Neglect - failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs
   - medical neglect is ignoring children’s illness or health
   - GPs should put ‘was not brought’ instead of ‘did not attend’

Question 3

what is ACEs?

Answer 3

1.) Adverse Childhood Experiences - traumatic events in childhood

2. ) Suggests that children that experience >4 ACEs are highly likely to exprience trauma in adulthood
   - ‘ACEs heritage’