Safeguarding

Question 1

What are the high risk combinations for accumulating parental risk?

Answer 1

1) Substance misuse
2) Domestic abuse
3) Parental mental I’ll health

Question 2

What are the risk factors for Child Abuse?

Answer 2

1) Infants/PreSchool
2) Adolescence
3) Disabled/learning difficulties
4) Siblings of abused children
5) Children of previously abused children
6) The resilient child

Question 3

What are the red flags of abuse?

Answer 3

1) History incompatible with injury
2) Injury history vague
3) History changes each time told to healthcare worked
4) parents give contradictory histories when on their own

Question 4

What are behavioural red flags?

Answer 4

1) Delay between injury and presentation
2) Parent doesn’t show concern to appropriate severity of injury
3) Pathological parent-child interaction shown
4) Unrealistic expectations, inappropriate demands and angry impulsive behaviour