Roles and Responsibilities of Agencies Concerned with Child Abuse
Social services roles and responsibilities are:
• To provide support for vulnerable children and families.
NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) roles and responsibilities are:
• Provides support for children and families in situations such as domestic violence, abuse. • Work with different organisations e.g. social services, police, family protection, education and health services. • Provide support via telephone line to home-based childcare workers on whether to refer a situation to social services. A Health Visitor’ s roles and responsibilities are:
• A health visitor have crucial skills in protecting children from harm and abuse, they are one of the first to recognise children who are likely to be abused or neglected. A health visitor plays a big part in all stages of a child protection process including case reviews. • Support the health of babies and children under the age of five. • They have contact with many multi agencies and they support the work of the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board (LSCB). • They are trained to a high level to recognise any risks that the child might be in. • The health visitor will visit parents home so they will gather information such as signs and symptoms this will enable a health visitor to start the process of the signs and concerns of abuse or neglect. The health visitor will need to have access to ongoing contact with the family if abuse or neglect is suspected. • Health visitors should use their own judgement on when to share information with other agencies. • They support and guide parents of young children. • Provide developmental checks on under fives.
General Practitioners (GP’s) roles and responsibilities are:
• The role of a GP is to maintain their skills in recognising if a child is being abused or neglected. • They need to follow all correct procedures if abuse or neglect is suspected. • All GP’s Should have regular training and update their training when
• To provide support for vulnerable children and families.
NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) roles and responsibilities are:
• Provides support for children and families in situations such as domestic violence, abuse. • Work with different organisations e.g. social services, police, family protection, education and health services. • Provide support via telephone line to home-based childcare workers on whether to refer a situation to social services. A Health Visitor’ s roles and responsibilities are:
• A health visitor have crucial skills in protecting children from harm and abuse, they are one of the first to recognise children who are likely to be abused or neglected. A health visitor plays a big part in all stages of a child protection process including case reviews. • Support the health of babies and children under the age of five. • They have contact with many multi agencies and they support the work of the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board (LSCB). • They are trained to a high level to recognise any risks that the child might be in. • The health visitor will visit parents home so they will gather information such as signs and symptoms this will enable a health visitor to start the process of the signs and concerns of abuse or neglect. The health visitor will need to have access to ongoing contact with the family if abuse or neglect is suspected. • Health visitors should use their own judgement on when to share information with other agencies. • They support and guide parents of young children. • Provide developmental checks on under fives.
General Practitioners (GP’s) roles and responsibilities are:
• The role of a GP is to maintain their skills in recognising if a child is being abused or neglected. • They need to follow all correct procedures if abuse or neglect is suspected. • All GP’s Should have regular training and update their training when