What is the role of Child Protective Services?

The role of Child Protection Child Protection provides child-centred, family-focused services to protect children and young people from significant harm resulting from abuse or neglect within the family.

What is the primary goal of a child protection worker?

Child Protective Services (CPS) promotes the safety and well-being of children through intervention in reported child abuse cases. The goal of CPS is to keep children in their homes when it is deemed safe, and to provide them with a safe environment when they are determined to be at risk.

What is the process of child protection?

Initial child protection conference share information. assess if the child is likely to suffer significant harm, which category of harm, and whether the harm is due to the care they are receiving. decide if the child needs a child protection plan. devise an outline multi-agency protection plan.

What is the duty of care for a child?

The standard of care required can vary depending on an individual staff member’s position with respect to their level of control and direction over those children in their care or with whom they are engaged. Further details regarding the department’s duty of care obligation please refer to the duty of care policy (PDF, 109.3 KB).

Who is the duty officer for child protection?

The Duty Officer (for both locations) can be contacted on the following number: 01738 476768 (24 hours). Alternatively you could speak to a health visitor, teacher, nursery worker, family doctor, social worker, police officer or children’s reporter. I am concerned about a child, should I speak to the child about my worries?

What are the requirements of duty of care?

The standard of care is the degree of foresight and caution required of education staff who owe a duty of care to the children and young people in their care and control. The requirements of the standard will depend on the circumstances of the activities to be undertaken by those children and young people.

What’s the duty of care of the Department of Education?

All Department for Education staff owe a duty to take reasonable care to protect those children and/or young people in their care and control from a reasonably foreseeable risk of harm.

What are the responsibilities of Child Protective Services?

Child Protective Services responsibilities include: Child Protective Services (CPS) becomes involved with children and families when they are referred by the DFPS Investigations division, which investigates allegations of child abuse and neglect.

Why is a duty of care owed to a child?

An extremely high duty of care is owed to children generally because of their limited ability to care for themselves, and a much higher duty of care is owed to an infant than to a school-aged child because of the differences in their ability to look after themselves and attend to some of their own needs. Proving a duty of care exists

When is a child in need of protective intervention?

A child or youth is in need of protective intervention if they have experienced, or are at risk of experiencing, abuse or neglect due to an action or lack of action by a parent. A social worker will consider the child’s age, developmental status, and other vulnerabilities when assessing reports of abuse or neglect.

What are the legal grounds for child protection?

Legislative grounds for government intervention define the circumstances and, importantly, the threshold at which the statutory child protection service is legally able to intervene to protect a child. Researchers typically focus on defining behaviours and circumstances that can be categorised as abuse and neglect.