There are various forms of child abuse or maltreatment, which include neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation and emotional abuse or neglect. The forms of child abuse that will be discussed in this project will be the physical abuse or violence and neglect. Physical abuse is when a child is injured by a parent or caregiver deliberately, while Child neglect is when a parent or caregiver does not give care, supervise or support to the wellbeing of a child’s health or safety, which may be physical, medical or educational …show more content…
According to one a social worker In the inquiry into the case of victoria, social service has not yet learnt its lesson and it is the same or worse than it used to be. In the light of all this it might just be that social services need radical steps to be taken for them to their job properly, and a good example is the David Cameron proposal, which states that social workers, teachers, and does involved with the care of children should be jailed for five years if the turn a blind eye to abuse children, this was as a result of recent cases of child abuse in Rotherham and Oxfordshire. If laws like these are made and also social service workers are paid well and children services are well funded then the system will be much better. Another solution is that poor practice standards in social services should be improved, by increasing the monitoring of the practice to ensure compliance with the instructions of the law concerning the protection of children. It is of great important that social services take their jobs seriously and avoid human errors, in order to avoid continuous death of