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Sensitivity: PROTECT Safeguarding Children Signs of abuse
Sensitivity: PROTECT Physical Abuse When an adult, child or young person deliberately hurts a child, such as hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning, drowning or suffocating. Emotional Abuse This would happen, for instance, when a child is all the time being unfairly blamed for everything, or told they are stupid and made to feel unhappy. Neglect Where a child is not being looked after properly, for example, not getting enough to eat or being left alone in dangerous situations. Sexual Abuse An example of sexual abuse would be where a child has been forced to take part in sexual activities or in the taking of rude photos. Types of ABUSE There are four recognised categories of child abuse: Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Neglect and Sexual Abuse.
Sensitivity: PROTECT Other Types of Abuse: - Bullying E. g. calling names, damaging property, stealing, spreading rumours, cyberbullying, hurting, getting people into trouble. Domestic Abuse is when one adult in a family or relationship threatens, bullies or hurts another adult e. g. physically, psychologically, emotionally, sexually or financially. Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) can be hard to identify and a change in behaviour in a young person may often seem like normal teenage behaviour. But for some, these could be the signs of something far more serious. Child marriage, or early marriage, is any marriage where at least one of the parties is under 18 years of age. Forced marriages are marriages in which one and/or both parties have not personally expressed their full consent. This is illegal within the UK.
Sensitivity: PROTECT County Lines and Criminal Gangs are a form of criminal exploitation, in which criminals groom and manipulate children to sell drugs, often in towns outside their home county. This is a serious issue in the UK, its name comes from the mobile phone 'lines' that are used to control where the young person goes to deliver drugs. Child trafficking is where children and young people tricked, forced or persuaded to leave their homes and are moved or transported and then exploited, forced to work or sold. FGM is when a female's genitals are deliberately altered or removed for nonmedical reasons. It's also known as 'female circumcision' or 'cutting', but has many other names.
Sensitivity: PROTECT Contextualised Safeguarding Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to understanding, and responding to, young people’s experiences of significant harm beyond their families. It recognises that the different relationships that young people form in their neighbourhoods, schools and online can feature violence and abuse. Parents and carers have little influence over these contexts, and young people’s experiences of extra-familial abuse can undermine parent-child relationships.
Sensitivity: PROTECT Common signs Some common signs that there may be something concerning happening in a child’s life include: unexplained changes in behaviour or personality becoming withdrawn seeming anxious becoming uncharacteristically aggressive lacks social skills and has few friends, if any poor bond or relationship with a parent knowledge of adult issues inappropriate for their age running away or going missing always choosing to wear clothes which cover their body. These signs don’t necessarily mean that a child is being abused, there could be other things happening in their life which are affecting their behaviour – but we can help you to assess the situation. You may also notice some concerning behaviour from adults who you know have children in their care, which makes you concerned for the child/children’s safety and wellbeing.
Sensitivity: PROTECT Impact of Abuse on Children Some of the effects child abuse can have include: negative effects on a child’s health, relationships and education adults who were abused as children may find it harder to cope with life's stresses, get a good job, or be a good parent mental health problems, drug or alcohol issues, criminal behaviour – or showing signs of harmful behaviour themselves. But it doesn’t have to be this way. We can all play our part in preventing abuse. And we can all help a child who’s experienced abuse to get their life back on track. NSPCC. org. uk
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