BSW3704 Assignment 2
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31 July 2025
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, Question 1: Protecting Child's Rights (15 marks)
A social worker can guarantee a child's rights through ensuring participation, best
interest, and dignity in the course of delivering child protection services.
Participation: The child social workers must engage children in decisions
that impact them, considering their age and level of maturity. This can
be done through the explanation of processes in a language they understand, listening to
their opinions, and making their voices heard in court or other quasi-judicial hearings.
Practical Example: A social worker interviews a 10-year-old child
to talk about possible arrangements for living, outlining a variety of options and enabling the
child to voice their wishes in terms of education and visits with siblings.
Best Interest of the Child: Every intervention and decision must serve the child's well-
being, security, and growth simultaneously. This encompasses taking into account their physical,
emotional, and psychological needs.
Practical Example: In the case of planning a family reunification, what the social
worker wants to know is whether the parents are capable of creating a safe
and favorable environment for nurturing the child's overall growth instead of whether the
parents want reunification.
Dignity: Social workers ought to handle children in a dignified manner, with respect for their
inherent value and individuality. This includes not stigmatizing, not infringing their privacy,
and not subjecting them to humiliating treatment.
Practical Example: During the interview with a child regarding abuse, the social
worker employs a confidential, informal environment, a non-judgmental stance, and does not use
terminology that will cause the child to feel ashamed or blame themselves.
Question 2: Continuum of Care (15 marks)
The child protection service continuum includes various levels of care with the emphasis on
coordinated intervention.
Prevention: These constitute efforts aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect from occurring.
Interventions: Positive parenting awareness campaigns, new parent support groups, universal
health visiting services, open early childhood development centers.
Early
Intervention: They target children and families with early indicators of risk or vulnerability and a
ttempt to prevent issues from escalating.
Interventions: Parenting skills classes for at-risk families, home visiting classes for families with
identified problems, children's psychosocial counseling for behaviorally disturbed children, and
school-based programs for bullying or truancy.
Statutory Services: These are legally required interventions when there is a substantiated risk
or indication of child abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
Interventions: Child protection
investigations, child removal from a situation of danger, child protection order applications to co
(COMPLETE
ANSWERS) 2025 - DUE
31 July 2025
For assistance contact
Email:
, Question 1: Protecting Child's Rights (15 marks)
A social worker can guarantee a child's rights through ensuring participation, best
interest, and dignity in the course of delivering child protection services.
Participation: The child social workers must engage children in decisions
that impact them, considering their age and level of maturity. This can
be done through the explanation of processes in a language they understand, listening to
their opinions, and making their voices heard in court or other quasi-judicial hearings.
Practical Example: A social worker interviews a 10-year-old child
to talk about possible arrangements for living, outlining a variety of options and enabling the
child to voice their wishes in terms of education and visits with siblings.
Best Interest of the Child: Every intervention and decision must serve the child's well-
being, security, and growth simultaneously. This encompasses taking into account their physical,
emotional, and psychological needs.
Practical Example: In the case of planning a family reunification, what the social
worker wants to know is whether the parents are capable of creating a safe
and favorable environment for nurturing the child's overall growth instead of whether the
parents want reunification.
Dignity: Social workers ought to handle children in a dignified manner, with respect for their
inherent value and individuality. This includes not stigmatizing, not infringing their privacy,
and not subjecting them to humiliating treatment.
Practical Example: During the interview with a child regarding abuse, the social
worker employs a confidential, informal environment, a non-judgmental stance, and does not use
terminology that will cause the child to feel ashamed or blame themselves.
Question 2: Continuum of Care (15 marks)
The child protection service continuum includes various levels of care with the emphasis on
coordinated intervention.
Prevention: These constitute efforts aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect from occurring.
Interventions: Positive parenting awareness campaigns, new parent support groups, universal
health visiting services, open early childhood development centers.
Early
Intervention: They target children and families with early indicators of risk or vulnerability and a
ttempt to prevent issues from escalating.
Interventions: Parenting skills classes for at-risk families, home visiting classes for families with
identified problems, children's psychosocial counseling for behaviorally disturbed children, and
school-based programs for bullying or truancy.
Statutory Services: These are legally required interventions when there is a substantiated risk
or indication of child abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
Interventions: Child protection
investigations, child removal from a situation of danger, child protection order applications to co
