1.1 Explain The Importance Of Safeguarding And Promoting The Welfare Of Children

Emotional abuse – involves the persistent psychological mistreatment of a child and may include making the child feel inadequate, unloved or worthless, imposing inappropriate developmental expectations on a child, threatening, taunting or humiliating the child or exploiting or corrupting

Safeguarding is for everyone and every organisation responsibility to protect children from any harm and promote their welfare (Children Act, 2004). However, the Department of Children, School

Safeguarding is a term which is broader than ‘child protection’ and relates to the action the commission takes to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm. Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility.

The UK Government has defined the term ‘safeguarding children’ as: ‘The process of protecting children from abuse or neglect, preventing impairment of their health and development, and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care that enables children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.’

Physical neglect includes refusal of, or delay in, seeking health care, food, clothing, or shelter; abandonment; expulsion from the home or refusal to allow a runaway to return home; and inadequate supervision (Child Abuse, Primavera). Educational neglect includes the allowance of chronic truancy, failure to enroll a child of mandatory school age in school, and failure to attend to special educational needs (Child Abuse, Primavera). Emotional neglect includes such actions as marked inattention to the child’s needs for affection; refusal of or failure to provide needed psychological care; spouse abuse in the child’s presence; and permission of drug or alcohol use by the child (Child Abuse, Primavera). Whether the caregiver is guilty of over-discipline or did not mean to intentionally cause harm to the child, abuse is abuse.

Neglect and abuse are forms of mistreating a child. When a person causes harm to a child or fails to act to prevent harm this is abuse. Children are abused rerly by a stranger, but is possible. Usually children are abuse by somebody they know or a family member. A child is considered to be abused, or at risk of abuse when their basic needs are not being met through avoidable acts of either commission or omission by parents or

Child abuse and neglect can result from physical, emotional, or sexual harm. Most often, child harm originates from the presence of an action (abuse) rather than the absence of it (neglect). Physical abuse involves a non-accidental harming of a child, verbal abuse involves harming or threats of harm to a child. Child abuse and neglect is defined by the State of South Wisconsin as “the physical abuse, sexual abuse, willful cruelty, unlawful corporal punishment, and neglect of any minor by any person” (Nelson, 2014).

“I carried this with me for decades. And then I decided to become a Warrior instead of a victim statistic. I broke the cycle” (Unknown). Child abuse is the harming of a child that causes extreme injury, emotional instability, or even death. Neglect is a form of child abuse where a parent does not provide the proper care that a child needs to successfully grow and develop. Child molestation is another form of child abuse, and involves an adult or older adolescent using a child for their own sexual pleasure. There are thousands of cases being reported every year. However, we may never know the exact number of cases.

Physical and medical neglect failing to provide a child's needs ( food, clothing, shelter, health care and child’s safety ). Failure to provide such as necessary needs can lead to psychological and physical health problems, eating disorders, serious illness.

Child neglect is another form of child abuse, but focuses more on the act of omission rather than the act of commission. According to the Center for Disease Control (2016), child neglect is defined as, the failure to provide for a child's basic physical, emotional, or educational needs or to protect a child from harm or potential harm. Forms of neglect include educational neglect, physical neglect, and emotional neglect (Iannelli, 2010; Leeb et al., 2007). Child neglect is not always deliberate abuse; however, more often than not it yields similar detrimental consequences as with intentional acts of child

Child abuse is any mistreatment or neglect of a child that results in purposely inflicted harm or injury. Neglect is the most common form of child abuse. Children can be left unattended without proper supervision or shelter, leaving the child at risk of danger or unprotected from harm. Neglect is also when the child is left hungry or dirty. The child may not be receiving adequate clothing based on the weather. Or the adequate medical services the child may need. Children who are abused and neglected do not get the love and attention they need.

Safeguarding is the action taken to ensure the safety and well-being of children as well as protecting them from harm, abuse and exploitation. Child protection is a part of safeguarding it ensures the protection and welfare of children. There are two elements that come under child protection these are the health and safety and child abuse.

Child neglect is the failure, by a parent, guardian or caretaker, either intentionally or through negligence or inability,

Child abuse is defined as maltreatment or neglect of a child by a parent or other caregiver that results in potential or actual harm or threats of harm to a child. Child abuse encompasses both acts of commission and omission. The former being abuse, and the latter being neglect (Anim, 2014). Child abuse is divided into four types, first is physical abuse such as hitting, kicking, shaking, or burning; sexual abuse; emotional abuse and lastly neglect, which involves the failure to meet a child’s basic physical, emotional, or educational needs or the failure to supervise the child in a way that ensures safety (Crisp & Lister, 2009).

Child abuse is becoming an epidemic in the United States of America and the numbers are growing yearly. The correct definition of child abuse is when a parent or caregiver causes harm, injury, death, emotional harm, etc. It also stated that child abuse can occur when a parent or caregiver does not do anything about the harm being caused to them. Physical abuse is a form of child abuse that causes physical harm to a child, such as, hitting, kicking, pinching, etc. Sexual abuse is another form of child abuse, which is when an adult uses a child in a sexual way or in sexual actions. Emotional abuse, is when a parent or caregiver begins to negatively affect a child’s emotional state and or development socially. The last form of child abuse is neglect. Child neglect is when a parent or caregiver is not providing the child with care, support, etc. Each form of child abuse can affect a child in many ways and can also cause issues for the child in their adult life (childhelp). Due to child abuse becoming such an epidemic there are now many organizations, legislation, and support for children and families experiencing this traumatic event.