Unit 7 P4 Substance Abuse And Abuse Case Study

EVIDENCE NO:

DATE:
21st November 2013

IDENTIFY EVIDENCE TYPE DIRECT OBSERVATION  REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT x QUESTIONS  EXPERT WITNESS  PRODUCT  WITNESS TESTIMONY 

CANDIDATE NAME:
Sharyn Morgan

Evidence: It is important that children, young people, families and communities are free from victimisation, exploitation and abuse because it is written in the UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) which the UK signed in 1991.
This states in Article 19 that the Government must take all appropriate action to protect a child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care
of parents, legal guardians or any other person who has the care of the child.
Article 32 states that children must be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education, or be to harmful to the child’s health or physical mental, spiritual, moral or social development.
Article 37 states that no child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, nor life imprisonment without possibility of release shall be imposed for offences committed by persons below 18 years of age.
To victimise someone is to punish or discriminate against selectively or unfairly, or to make a victim of someone.
To exploit someone is to take advantage of them unethically or unjustly for one’s own advantage and to abuse someone is to maltreat, or speak insultingly or cruelly to.
Victimisation or abuse of a child can take many forms. A child could be a victim of bullying by other children, name calling, teasing, physical bullying such as pushing, kicking, punching or being spat at. Abuse could be at the hands of an adult or another child, being sexually abused, or physically abused, or even psychologically abused - name calling or constant put downs. All this makes a child a victim and is against the UNCRC.
To exploit a child is to have them do something against their will for another’s gain. A child could be made to work for another’s profit, to make them do something against their will because they are too young to understand it is wrong e.g. sexual acts. Again this is against the UNCRC and it is the child’s right to not be exploited, abused or made a
victim.
It is not only children who can be victimised, exploited and abused. It can be families, young people and communities. This can occur because of minority groups being in the area and being bullied or abused, targeted because of their nationality, the colour of their skin, or their sexual preferences.
All people have a right to be free from victimisation, abuse and exploitation because it is part of the European Convention on Human Rights (1998) which states that all individuals have the freedom from torture and inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment and freedom from forced or compulsory labour.

Unit, Element, P.C.’s
Knowledge
305.16a

Children’s Care, Learning & Development
Tassoni, Bulman, Beith and Robinson
Heinneman Education Publishing 2005
Oxford

HNC Early Education & Childcare
Scott, Anderson, Johnstone, MacMillan, Paterson and Sayers
Heinneman Education Publishing 2008
Oxford

ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE AND CLARIFICATION
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COMMENTS/FEEDBACK TO CANDIDATE

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Expert Witness Signature (if applicable):

Candidate Signature:
Sharyn Morgan
Assessor Signature:

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