Child Protection and Welfare Practice Handbook - Health Service ...

Index
A
abuse
categories of, 10–14
emotional abuse, 10
extra-familial abuse, 55, 57, 146
financial abuse, 67
intra-familial abuse, 57, 146
physical abuse, 12–13
psychological/emotional abuse, 67
responding to child’s disclosure of,
32–33
retrospective disclosures by adults,
58, 146
sexual abuse, 10–11
See also neglect
access of alleged abuser to children, 146
Access Workers (HSE), 26
adolescents
relationship violence, 67
risk factors in, 60
adult services and impact on children, 29
adults disclosing abuse in childhood. See
retrospective disclosures by adults
Advocacy Workers (HSE), 26
Advocacy, Director of (HSE), 129
age of child
as risk factor in child protection, 60
issues impacting on parenting
capacity, 171–75
alcohol
children and families in Ireland
affected by (2008), 72
exposure of newborn child to, 19
parental misuse of, 71–73
allegations against workers and
volunteers, managing, 129
animals, cruelty to, 108–9
anonymous referrals, 36
anti-social personality disorder, 69
Asian women and domestic violence, 72
assessment practice
child attachment to parents/carers,
103–5
chronologies, 6, 117–19
Index
core assessment, 4
cruelty to animals, 108–9
disabled children, 79–80
domestic violence, 64–66
evaluating progress, 113
fathers/male partners, 111–12
further assessment, 4, 47
home visits, 105–8
initial assessment, 4, 37, 45–46
intellectual disability in children,
79–80
intellectual disability in parents/carers,
75–76
interviewing children, 46
interviewing third parties, 37
key considerations, warnings, pitfalls
in assessments, 93–102
male partners, unknown, 81–82
mental health of parents/carers, 70
parenting capacity, 75–76, 109–13,
171–75
perpetrator risk assessment, 66
recommendations from Serious
Case Inquiries (Ireland), 95,
160–63
record-keeping and file
management, 116
risk assessment, 4
supervising assessments, 113–16
types of assessment, 4
uncooperative or ‘hard to engage’
families, 82–85
attachment of children to parents/carers,
103–5
B
‘Baby Peter’, Serious Case Review, ‘Child
A’ (2010), 81–82
behaviour of child, questions on, 31
best practice in child protection and
welfare work, principles of, 3–4
black and minority ethnic (BME)
communities, 62, 87–88
177