HOW TO SUPPORT CHILDREN IN ORDER TO REDUCE CHILD ABUSE

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the UK Children’s Act 1989/2004 all provides the guiding principles that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility including:

• Ensure the child is enriched with adequate basic needs such as habitable shelter, healthy food and water, access to formal education, access to healthcare
• service, access to recreational centre, access to local community safe park and individual places of interest for children with special needs.
• Be alert of the signs and symptoms of abuse and neglect without taking any sings on face value.
• Question Behaviours that presence odd to protect the child as early as possible.
• Ask for help through people you trust and designated professionals: Health Service, Schools, Social Care, Police etc.
• Refer to the Social Care service