The Role of Teachers in Preventing Child Abuse :: Schools Role in Preventing Child Abuse

There are several(a) strategies used inwardly schools to tackle claw rib. In order to debate the strategies fully there is a need to define what exactly is meant by squirt twist. It is also necessary to be aware of what advice and guidance there is offered through Government documentation and circulars to schools on their role in preventing nestling ridicule. Having put baby abuse and the schools role into context, then the strategies used by the school as a whole and by the teacher within the classroom can be discussed. Therefore what exactly is meant by child abuse? There is a tendency to automatically assume that abuse means sexual abuse. The 1986 draft report by the Department of friendly Security DHSS, Child Abuse - Working Together defined child abuse as falling into six categories physical abuse, physical neglect, chastisement to thrive, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and potential abuse. The present definition for child abuse accordi ng to Department for Education and Skills DfES Circular 10/95 has been narrowed down to include only four categories sexual abuse -physical signs or a substantial behaviour change emotional abuse -excessive dependence or attention seeking physical abuse - unfaltering broken bones, bruises, lacerations and burns physical neglect - inadequate clothing, poor growth, hunger, or apparent deficient nutrition These are the guidelines from which schools work. However, what we as a ships company perceive as abuse may in different cultures/societies be seen as normal practice. There are many cultures for example where three-year-old girls, twelve years of age are taken as brides. a good deal publicity has been given recently to the plight of Muslim women under the Taliban regime. Females be in possession of been treated as property, not as equal citizens and suffered as a consequence. The guideline produced by Liverpool City Council for its schools actu ally contains within it a form _or_ system of government on female genital mutilation Liverpool City Council, 2000. This form of abuse seems totally odious to our society, but again is an accepted form of behaviour by other