Fgc Model Of Child Neglect

All children should have a safe, happy and healthy childhood which can grow up in a loving and caring environment. It is essential to allow them the time to have all the wonder and happiness as well as innocence that should come with childhood (“Protecting Children is Everyone’s Business,” 2009). It is the right of all children to have loving care and support as well as the right to receive the best services that would foster their success in life. It is the primary responsibility of the parents to raise their children and ensure all their rights are upheld. Moreover, the unique way of protecting a child is to ensure maltreatment does not take place in the child’s life. This can be attained by, building capacity and strengthening families as well as communities to enable parents to raise healthy and happy children. Also, protecting a child is not only the responsibility of the parent but for everyone including the communities, governments, and business all of which need to work together to prevent child maltreatment.

Child neglect does not have a single definition
The family-centered intervention approach (FGC)involves bringing together the child, the members of the family, and the child protection professionals to help sort out the issues in the family. The FGC model empowers families to be part of the decisions that have an impact on them. What’s more, the model is based on the assumptions that families have enough competence to make their own decisions if they are appropriately engaged and prepared as well as provided with the necessary information. Additionally, it argues that the decisions made by families are likely to succeed than the ones imposed on them by outsiders(Huntsman, 2006). Thus, family empowerment is the central aim of the FGC model and shifting the power of decision making to the family allows them to resolve their issues