Support and protect vulnerable children, young people, their families and their carers
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Who do the services help
- children and families needing help to live in wellness - children in need of protection - children in local authority care - children with disabilities and/or additional needs
- Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 places duty on local authorities to provide services to most vulnerable - unpicks legislation to explain the must do and give info about implementing good practice - covers adults too
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Non-Statutory Guidance
- considered less complex for govt. to issue this sort of guidance - circulate info swiftly to influence good practice - service would be open to criticism if ignored this guidance
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National Minimum Standards
- e.g. foster care - standards govt. expects when delivering a service - practice orientated - used by OFSTED to judge quality of services and compliance with regulations
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Cycle of Provision
1. Assessment of Need 2. Plan 3. Service of Provision 4. Review (made new/modify plan if necessary)
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Assessments of Need
- Child in Need and Child Protection Plan .Central duty team referral received . Social worker complete detailed assessment - Children with disabilities and additional needs . education, health and care plan . focus on eligibility
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Practical Challenges for Children's Social Care
- Information sharing within and between agencies - need for specialist training - some effects of maltreatment easier to detect than others - parental deception - cultural diversity regarding maltreatment vs. normative behaviours
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Provision of Services
- Case Management - Interventions
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Case Management
- Case holding social worker with a statutory duty to monitor and review case - statutory reviews - liaising with other professionals
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Interventions
- Research suggests that changes in a family are seen when the underlying issues are addressed - variability in the types of interventions available across local authorities - variability in understanding of research evidence
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Aim to improve child outcomes
- Shift in focus from protection to wellbeing - Minimising the impact of maltreatment . family support . child and adolescent mental health services
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Whole Family Approaches
- Parenting Capacity .Drug and alcohol services - Multi-systemic or family therapy - "Think Family" approach - Troubled family initiative, "Family Intervention Projects"
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Focus on Early Intervention and Prevention
- Understanding a child's journey . Munro review of Child Protection In England (2011) - Not part of Children's Social Care Statutory function, but considerable overlap
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Early Intervention More (Cost) Effective
- Allen Report (2011) - Services for 'vulnerable families' . 'Area' or 'locality' teams
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Multi-agency Provision
- MASH teams - Co-located teams
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Disabled Children
- Support for families with disabled children - Move away from institutionalism - Respite care or short breaks - Personalisation
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Quality Assurance and Inspections
- Statutory (and moral) imperative to ensure legal requirements are met and care is of sufficient quality - Individual case reviews - Inspectorates for children - Serious case reviews
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Categories of Abuse
1) Physical 2) Sexual 3) Emotional 4) Neglect
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Physical Abuse
- Inflicting physical harm - Includes when a parent or carer fabricates the symptoms of, or deliberately induces, illness in a child
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Sexual Abuse
- Enforcing young child to take part in sexual activities - Non-contact abuse, i.e. involving children in looking at, or in production of, visual sexual material
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Emotional Abuse
- Emotional maltreatment of child to cause severe and persistent adverse effect on child's emotional development - seeing or hearing ill-treatment of another
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Neglect
Persistent failure to meet a child's basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child's health or development
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Impact of Child Maltreatment
- Physical harm - Disruption to emotional, social and cognitive development - Adapting to negative environments - Outcomes in later life - Own parenting capacity
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Who do the services help
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- children and families needing help to live in wellness - children in need of protection - children in local authority care - children with disabilities and/or additional needs
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