Essays on Child Protection

There are many arrangements that are available for looked after children and young people. It would all depend on the current situation that the child or young person is in. A looked after child is a child that has been in the care system for...

Strutting along a stage; Your every move being judged; Pushy parents sat in the audience; fingers crossed. This is what it is like to be a child, in a beauty pageant. It is all a lot of pressure on young kids. People have lots of...

Poverty is a current problem in Scotland and is affecting many people of different ages, one of those ages are children. Figures show that poverty is clearly a problem in Scotland as ‘one in five people in Scotland are living in relative poverty’. More specifically...

Corporal punishment towards children has been a controversial topic for many years. It’s the use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience pain, but not injury for the purpose of correction or control of the child’s behavior. This common form...

The early 1900s were a period of rebirth and reconstruction for the South. Originally introduced as the “New South,” plans for change were in order. Post-Civil War effects had negatively impacted the nation; over 22,000 people died, building structures were destroyed, and most importantly, the...

In order for children to grow up mentally and physically well, agencies of socialization are needed as during this process, they will learn the basic values and norms that will help them in their later life. A family is the most important socio-economic institutions of...

13,700 children are abused every day in the United States (“ child welfare”). Four of these children die each day as a result of abuse and/or neglect(“Home – Child Welfare Information Gateway”). This is way to much for children and it should not be happening...

Child welfare agencies are in charge of ensuring the safety, stability and the overall well-being of children who have been either abused, neglected or children who are at risk of abuse and neglect. Services are provided by states and counties to include services for children...

In the field of health and human services, information technology has been increasing quickly. Information technology among social welfare organizations can best be defined as social networking. Information technology can go back to the 1960s when closed-circuit video was used as the primary instrument and...

Child Protective Services (CPS) is a government funded agency that was put in place to protect children against abuse, neglect, and endangerment. When CPS becomes involved with a family, it is because an intake was called in. The intake can be called in by a...