Explain The Factors That Would Lead To Suspicion Of Child Maltreatment Or Abuse

In this assignment, I will be explaining the factors that would lead to suspicion of child maltreatment or abuse.

It is important that everyone working with children and young people are prioritising child protection. Children and young people may get bruises and minor injures during playing, so it is important to listen to children and take note of their body languages and general behaviors and appearance.

Type of maltreatment
There are many different type of maltreatment such as physical abuse, intellectual, emotional, sexual, bullying, harassment and neglect.

Physical
Sign of physical maltreatment would include hitting, nipping, burning and any kind of inflicting physical harm. Therefore, in order to protect children early years
Abuse and maltreatment does not usually occur in families but in some cases parents may take out their anger on the child, in most cases this would be thought physically abuse and emotional abuse but intellectually, sexual abuse and neglect can take place.

Outside of family
Abuse outside the family is more popular, this can be in form of bullying which mostly is mostly done by young adults and abuse mainly being from adults and relatives. In school children and young people learn about staying away from strangers. This is important so that children stay away from stranger in order to protect themselve as stranger may seem to be nice but actually they are cunning and children may fall for them. In order to overcome this it is important to ensure that children have high self-esteem and confidence as they would be less likely to be targeted by strangers.

In care setting
There could also be abuse in care home and there are many cases where this has happened, in most cases the abuse is in form of bullying and harassment, but in rare cases there could be other abuse such as sexual, physically and others. Care professional are trained and have severe consequences if they are found to abuse or maltreat children and young people in order to prevent abuse from
For example, if a mother, has a new partner and the partner's friend or family move in the house. This may lead to different types of abuse since the partner or friend may think that the child is not needed in the family.

Young people may start to act out abuse if they are viewing things that may contain abuse, for example, movies or animal abuse. This would lead to the young person being abusive and start to behaviour in that way to the others. They would put their thoughts in action at school, by telling others to show that they are powerful compared to others.

Family history may lead to abuse abuse occurring in a family because parents may think that it is normal to hit a child since they have as well. Therefore, parents may not find it strange to abuse their children.

Poor or impaired parenting skills may lead to abuse occurring because the parents do not understand what is right or wrong for their child. Therefore, this would lead to the parents treating the child in a way which may not be right or end up neglecting the child. This can be improved by supporting parents in getting the right skills to care for the