Duty Of Care
Duty of care and mandatory reporting are two areas in child protection and juvenile justice that must be considered when working with young people as they could be your legal obligation. What is duty of care? Who do you owe duty of care too? What is mandatory reporting? When should you report a situation?
Duty of care is giving reasonable care to individuals you work with, co-workers, and the general public to protect them from risks of harm that could happen. The measure of reasonable care depends on training, experience, and qualifications. When deciding whether it is your duty of care to help in a situation, you need to consider the risk facts involved. Also you should consider the relationship you have to the people involved, age and …show more content…
It is your responsibility to report child abuse under certain circumstances. Things to consider whether to report an incident or not would be; do you have reasonable belief that the abuse is happening, is there harm being done, is there physical injury involved, sexual abuse, and is this instance something that the parents are not able to protect the child. If these questions point that a report should be made then you should report or it could be considered a crime if it is not reported. Professionals working with young people are obligated to report these incidences depending on youth laws and the organization that you work for. If you decide to report you must tell the individual that you are reporting the incident.
As a professional working in the CPJJ field there are certain legal obligations that must be followed this includes; duty of care, mandatory reporting, and privacy and confidentiality. These can be seen in everyday life. I have a duty of care to my niece when she is with me without her parents whether at my home or out and about. I have also seen mandatory reporting come in to play when a mother left her toddler in the hall way of my apartment while she ran to the store. My grandma works for a state agency and had to report the incident. I saw that it may have looked like she was being unfair to the mother, but was protecting the child from further danger that could happen in the
Duty of care is giving reasonable care to individuals you work with, co-workers, and the general public to protect them from risks of harm that could happen. The measure of reasonable care depends on training, experience, and qualifications. When deciding whether it is your duty of care to help in a situation, you need to consider the risk facts involved. Also you should consider the relationship you have to the people involved, age and …show more content…
It is your responsibility to report child abuse under certain circumstances. Things to consider whether to report an incident or not would be; do you have reasonable belief that the abuse is happening, is there harm being done, is there physical injury involved, sexual abuse, and is this instance something that the parents are not able to protect the child. If these questions point that a report should be made then you should report or it could be considered a crime if it is not reported. Professionals working with young people are obligated to report these incidences depending on youth laws and the organization that you work for. If you decide to report you must tell the individual that you are reporting the incident.
As a professional working in the CPJJ field there are certain legal obligations that must be followed this includes; duty of care, mandatory reporting, and privacy and confidentiality. These can be seen in everyday life. I have a duty of care to my niece when she is with me without her parents whether at my home or out and about. I have also seen mandatory reporting come in to play when a mother left her toddler in the hall way of my apartment while she ran to the store. My grandma works for a state agency and had to report the incident. I saw that it may have looked like she was being unfair to the mother, but was protecting the child from further danger that could happen in the