1. Supporting Children’s Rights and Entitlements Outcome Two Describe categories of abuse which require intervention

2. Outcomes Identify a range of signs and indicators which might be an indication of abuse or neglect. Describe ways of responding positively to signs of possible abuse.

3. Child Abuse A child is someone under the age of 16 and child abuse includes such things as: the misuse of power an adult deliberately hurting a child not attending to a child’s needs an adult putting their own needs and desires before a child’s not caring for a child properly using a child for sexual gratification

4. Types of Child Abuse Physical Abuse Sexual Abuse Emotional Abuse Physical Neglect

5. Types of Child Abuse Physical Abuse Is when a child is physically injured by any person caring for them. It is also when a person caring for the child knowingly fails to prevent an injury.

6. Types of Child Abuse Sexual Abuse Is when a person involves a child under the age of consent in any activity that leads to the sexual gratification of that adult. This often includes physical contact such as rape but can also include taking pornographic photographs.

7. Types of Child Abuse Emotional Abuse Is when a child’s basic emotional needs are not being met and this has an effect on their behaviour and development. This can include being constantly ridiculed, criticised or threatened.

8. Types of Child Abuse Physical Neglect Is when someone caring for a child persistently exposes that child to danger or persistently fails to fulfil the child’s basic needs and results in health or developmental problems.

9. Types of Child Abuse Neglect also includes non-organic failure to thrive. This is a medical diagnosis of lack of development in a child where there is no physical or organic cause, such as illness, to account for it.

10. Child Abuse Any act of commission or omission by individuals, institutions or society as a whole which deprives children of equal rights, or liberties, and/or interferes with their optimal development, constitutes by definition abuses or neglectful acts or conditions.