Child Discriminatory Practice Essay
a crime has been alleged, suspected or committed by a parent/carer:
If practitioners suspect or have been told by a child that their parent/carer is possibly committing a crime or is committing a crime, it depends on the seriousness of the crime as to how practitioners should deal with it. Crime can consist of many things such as; theft, benefit fraud, fraud, prostitution, dvd piracy, murder, drug taking etc. It depends on the seriousness of the crime as to whether practitioners breach confidentiality. Trust is something which is paramount because you need to have trust within a professional relationship as without it the child and their family are not going to be willing to share important information with practitioners. If a child has spoken …show more content…
The crime can be varied from; shoplifting, drugs, theft or violence, but one small crime can easily lead to another bigger crime and possibly the child being involved in possible gang activity. This can be dangerous for children and young people as they can be introduced to some dangerous people. Practitioners will need to know if the child or young person’s parents/carers are aware of the child’s criminal activities and if they are not the child could be being neglected. Practitioners job is to protect and monitor the child, by law every child has the right to be protected from harm. If this means that practitioners must involve the Local Safeguarding Children Board then they have the right to break this confidentiality, as well as following child protection policies and procedures. Practitioners may be advised to speak to the child’s parents/carers first to see if they are aware of their child’s crime related activities, if they are and are willing to do nothing to help the child then it is the job of the practitioners to try and provide the child/young person with support and to try and find out why the child is committing the crimes. This can provide tension between the child/parents and practitioners but practitioners have a duty to protect the child from harm so it would justify why they have to break the
If practitioners suspect or have been told by a child that their parent/carer is possibly committing a crime or is committing a crime, it depends on the seriousness of the crime as to how practitioners should deal with it. Crime can consist of many things such as; theft, benefit fraud, fraud, prostitution, dvd piracy, murder, drug taking etc. It depends on the seriousness of the crime as to whether practitioners breach confidentiality. Trust is something which is paramount because you need to have trust within a professional relationship as without it the child and their family are not going to be willing to share important information with practitioners. If a child has spoken …show more content…
The crime can be varied from; shoplifting, drugs, theft or violence, but one small crime can easily lead to another bigger crime and possibly the child being involved in possible gang activity. This can be dangerous for children and young people as they can be introduced to some dangerous people. Practitioners will need to know if the child or young person’s parents/carers are aware of the child’s criminal activities and if they are not the child could be being neglected. Practitioners job is to protect and monitor the child, by law every child has the right to be protected from harm. If this means that practitioners must involve the Local Safeguarding Children Board then they have the right to break this confidentiality, as well as following child protection policies and procedures. Practitioners may be advised to speak to the child’s parents/carers first to see if they are aware of their child’s crime related activities, if they are and are willing to do nothing to help the child then it is the job of the practitioners to try and provide the child/young person with support and to try and find out why the child is committing the crimes. This can provide tension between the child/parents and practitioners but practitioners have a duty to protect the child from harm so it would justify why they have to break the