Week 16 Child Protection
Child - Anyone who has not yet reached their 18th birthday
S. 105 The Children’s Act 1989
The Children’s Act 1989
Legal framework for the care and protection of children
S. 47 - local authorities must investigate cases whereby significant
harm appears to be at the issue of a child being taken into emergency
protection
S. 31 - defined significant, harm, development, health and Ill-treatment
Development - Physical, intellectual, social or behavioural development
Health - Physical and Mental Health
Ill-treatment - includes sexual abuse and forms of ill treatment which
are not physical
Harm - “ill-treatment or the impairment of health or development
including, for example, impairment suffered from seeing or hearing
the ill-treatment of another”
The Children’s Act 2004
Empathises importance of Multi Agency partnerships
to safeguard children
S. 11 - highlighted that organisations needed arrangements in
place to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
, Emergency Protection Order
S. 44 The Children’s Act 1989
• Court authorised
• Allows the authorities to remove a child to be placed into suitable
accommodation
• Authorised forced entry if needed
Emergency Protection Power
S. 46 The Children’s Act 1989
• Exclusive standing powers given to police officers
• Authorises police to remove a child to be placed into suitable
accommodation
• Unable to authorise forced entry
• Lasts 72 hours
Initiating Officer - The office in case
Designated Officer - Overseeing the management (insp+)
Children and Disability
Child Abuse - Any form of maltreatment of a child. Somebody may abuse or
neglect a child by inflicting harm on them, or by failing to act to prevent
harm
COP, (2018b:2)
Child Cruelty - Committed by a person over 16yrs that has responsibility
for any child under 16yrs
S. 1 Children and Young Persons Act 1933
S. 66 Serious Crime Act 2015
Child - Anyone who has not yet reached their 18th birthday
S. 105 The Children’s Act 1989
The Children’s Act 1989
Legal framework for the care and protection of children
S. 47 - local authorities must investigate cases whereby significant
harm appears to be at the issue of a child being taken into emergency
protection
S. 31 - defined significant, harm, development, health and Ill-treatment
Development - Physical, intellectual, social or behavioural development
Health - Physical and Mental Health
Ill-treatment - includes sexual abuse and forms of ill treatment which
are not physical
Harm - “ill-treatment or the impairment of health or development
including, for example, impairment suffered from seeing or hearing
the ill-treatment of another”
The Children’s Act 2004
Empathises importance of Multi Agency partnerships
to safeguard children
S. 11 - highlighted that organisations needed arrangements in
place to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
, Emergency Protection Order
S. 44 The Children’s Act 1989
• Court authorised
• Allows the authorities to remove a child to be placed into suitable
accommodation
• Authorised forced entry if needed
Emergency Protection Power
S. 46 The Children’s Act 1989
• Exclusive standing powers given to police officers
• Authorises police to remove a child to be placed into suitable
accommodation
• Unable to authorise forced entry
• Lasts 72 hours
Initiating Officer - The office in case
Designated Officer - Overseeing the management (insp+)
Children and Disability
Child Abuse - Any form of maltreatment of a child. Somebody may abuse or
neglect a child by inflicting harm on them, or by failing to act to prevent
harm
COP, (2018b:2)
Child Cruelty - Committed by a person over 16yrs that has responsibility
for any child under 16yrs
S. 1 Children and Young Persons Act 1933
S. 66 Serious Crime Act 2015
