Suspected or actual maltreatment:
Physical Abuse: Maybe one of the first reasons why a child enters foster care the physical abuse has to be extreme where bruising is left on a child and numerous attempt to help a family learn alternative ways of disciple have failed. Physical abuse may also mean the restraining of a child or being locked within a cupboard or other small space.
Sexual Abuse: This can mean several different things as sexual abuse is often thought about on a continuum of acts with the viewing of pornographic material, grooming, exploitation and sexual abusing.
Neglect: Means such as child’s need for food a clean living environment or emotional needs sometimes the birth parents choice to not seek medical attention could be cause of religious beliefs but there are times when a child’s medical needs are neglected due to pure thoughtlessness.
Incarceration: A child may be placed into foster care when there are no family or friends avaible to care for the child during a parent’s incarceration in prison or jail
Juvenile Offender: A child that has been adjudicated a juvenile offender sometimes the child choice to break the law means the child may find themselves within foster care especially if there are issues within the home and the parents are unable to properly manage the child behavior. Children who have run away behavior those parents find difficult to manage alone. Also children who truancy off school is another behavior that may lead to the child’s needs to be placed init the foster care systems.
Deaths: Sometimes children have to be put in care because family are unable to care for the child after the death of a parent children maybe looked after by the local authority most often it is because the child’s parents or the people who have parental responsibilities and rights to look after the child are unable to care for them. Have been neglected them or the child has committed an offence he local authority has specific responsibilities and duties for a child who is being looked after such as:
- The local authority accommodation under a voluntary arrangement where the child’s patents agree to the child being accommodated
- In local authority accommodation or at home under compulsory measures decided by a children’s court or hearing
P2:
Children who are accommodated by the local authority are entitled to a range of services and their policies are:
- Taking into account their views for planning for their care
- Informing their parents as to what is happening helping them to keep in contact with family and friends
- Ensure that their carers meet their health, educational and social needs
- Inform their carers about the child’s culture, religion and language
- Inform their carers about the child’s special needs
- Protect the child from neglect and abuse
- Help the child prepare for leaving care usually at 18 years old
By ensuring their access to universal targeted and specialist health, education and social care services so that appropriate referrals and health assessments are undertaken which are then supported by individuals are undertaken which are then supported by individual care plans.
Targeted Services: Provides support aimed at particular groups of children they offer services such as sure start children they offer services such as sure start children centers this provides and aims to meet the individual children, young people and their parents who have been identified as having additional needs. Targeted services also include services aimed at groups of children and young people with complex needs such as targeted parenting support and many more, which is offered by the social services. Targeted services remain responsible and accountable for the service they deliver.
Universal Services: Provided to all children, young people and their families universal services are designed to meet the needs that all children and young people have such as school, early years nurseries and connextions as well as health services provided by their GP’s such as midwifes, health visitors.
Specialist Services: Are provided for children and young people with complex, specialist, and acute or very high level of needs. Specialist services include children and young people with serious mental health, children and young people subject to court orders by youth offending service. Access to specialist services requires an additional level of assessment or referral from the social services. Specialist services involve training, guidance, advice and support from agencies this allows them to build their own capacity for dealing with children and young people with the specialist services provisions their aim is to support all children and young people for appropriate periods of time and meet all their needs.