Child Neglect
The purpose of the course is to raise your awareness of neglect and aid understanding the factors that may contribute to it. Develop understanding of the different forms of neglect and how it can impact children and young people. Using the Assessment Framework to identify essential developmental needs and the dimensions of which these are potentially impacted.
Course Overview
The signs and indicators of neglect will be explored, and this course will help you comprehend and understand what action you should take in order to report it. There is comprehensive advice on in what way you can support a child or young person who is facing neglect. The purpose is to advance your understanding of neglect and comprehend the factors that may contribute to it. Cultivate understanding of the diverse forms of neglect and in what way it can impact children and young people. Using the Assessment Framework to identify essential developmental needs and the dimensions of which these are possibly impacted.
This course is suitable for anyone who comes into contact with children and young people of any age in any setting.
This course comprehensively covers:
- what neglect is and how common it is
- the diverse areas of a child or young person’s life that neglect might affect and the cost of neglect to society
- the key components of effective parenting and the factors that might add to child neglect
- the work of professionals in children’s social care, whose job it is to weigh up all the factors and consider interventions to protect children who may be at risk of harm
- the signs and indicators that should alert you to the possibility a child or young person is being neglected and how to report your concerns
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Curriculum
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Module 1 Understanding neglect
This module covers:
- To introduce the basic forms of neglect and examples of circumstances parents whose children are neglected may be experiencing.
- The prevalence of neglect in comparison to other types of maltreatment in the UK.
- Children’s key developmental milestones.
- The impacts of what harm neglect can do; how it can affect and damage children in key developmental areas such as social, physical and emotional development.
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Module 2 Why are children and young people neglected?
This module covers:
- The key components of effective parenting using the Assessment Framework model.
- Examples of factors that can make parenting neglectful, either intentionally or by omission.
- Examining practices which harm children and young people with disabilities.
- Information regarding children and young people who are especially vulnerable; such as young carers, and looked-after children and young people.
- Other risk factors; based on research focusing on mothers and fathers.
- Resilience and protective factors that can mitigate against risks that children and young people face.
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Module 3 Recognising and reporting child neglect
This module covers:
- The signs and indicators that should alert you to the possibility a child or young person is being neglected at different age-specific developmental milestones. Understanding what possible signs and indicators to look for in infants and toddlers, young children of school age and adolescence.
- Parental neglect during adolescence and it’s possibly consequences.
- Examining barriers to reporting and recognising neglect.
- Best practises for reporting neglect; information regarding organisations that can be contacted and universal principles that should be recorded within your own organisation.
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