Impact of Poverty on Children SOWK 301 Stace Todd Radford University November 22‚ 2012 According to data from UNICEF‚ a child in the United States is more likely to live in poverty than any other developed nation (American Psychological Association‚ 2012) Children living in poverty suffer from lack of nutrition. Lack of nutrition can lead to premature birth and/or low birth weight (APA‚ 2012). Inadequate access to healthy foods can lead to obesity (Dalton‚ 2007).
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The Situation of Filipino Children and Young People Almost half of the population in the Philippines are children. With a fast population growth a year‚ the government has a difficult task in providing children with enough resources to ensure their rights. For many adults and children‚ a 15-year-old who bears a child willingly or unwillingly ceases to be a girl-child but a young mother. An 11-year-old who takes on the task of tilling the fields ceases to be a boy but a labouring farmhand. A 16-year-old
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Understand How to Support Positive Outcome for Children and Young People. Outcome 2: Understand how practitioners can make a positive difference in outcomes for children and young people. Question 1: Identify the positive outcomes for children and young people that practitioners should be striving to achieve. As we already discussed this in one of the five outcomes in Every Child Matters. As a qualified child care worker I should be aware and make positive contribution in the entire are of child
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Policy and Practice for Children and Young People Discuss the ideology underpinning policy and practice for children and young people and demonstrate an awareness of constructs of childhood and adolescence from either an educational or care perspective. “The idea of belonging and membership‚ being part of a community‚ is a basic human need. It’s one of the principles of our democratic society. We all have the same needs‚ we want to be loved‚ we want to have friends‚ we want to feel that we
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Poverty Problem Poverty is quite an issue not only in third world countries but also here in the United States. Interviews were conducted with 74 families with school-age children‚ including 44 families living at or below 150% of the federal poverty level and 30 families living above 150% of poverty (Heymann 5). Over 14 million U.S. children lived in poverty in 1997 (Sherman and Sandfort 555). Many times it is easy for people to hide certain aspects of their lives. However‚ poverty is not one
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Unit 16 Understanding Safeguarding of Children & young people LOG 3 1.1 Unit 16 & 2.2 & Unit 14 AC 2.3 I have written the policy and procedure for Safeguarding Adults and Children (see log 3a) which demonstrates my knowledge of procedures. In terms of the safeguarding policies procedures and practices for safe working with children and young people‚ this commences at the recruitment stage. We check out at interview if the applicant has any gaps in employment and if they have any convictions
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Safeguarding Children and Young People with Autistic Spectrum Disorder The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of current provisions for safeguarding children and young people with Autism‚ whilst paying attention to proposed and current legislation and reports/ policy initiatives from a UK and Welsh perspectives. The rationale for this paper is because the writer has a nine year old autistic child. All children’s welfare is underpinned by legislation‚ leaving parents and adults
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Gender and Life chances In Britain The purpose of this essay is to describe and evaluate how gender influences the life chances of individuals and groups within Britain today‚ particularly looking at the socialization process of gender and how particular ideologies of gender roles within different social institutions can create social inequalities through the use of power which can be achieved through justice‚ and applying different theoretical perspectives of inequality in reference to gender
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Unit 012 012_1 Understand partnership working within the context of services for children and young people. 1.1 When people working with children and young people work together‚ it can be very positive for the children and young people concerned. The adults could be parents‚ carers‚ colleagues‚ professionals or multi-disciplinary teams. They need to communicate‚ exchange information‚ share their knowledge and experience and understand each other’s roles. whe If you work well as a team in your
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------------------------------------------------- Understanding safeguarding of children and young people For those working in the adult sector Unit 516 Understand safeguarding of children and young people (for those working in the adult sector) 1 Understand the Policies‚ Procedures and Practices for safe working with children and young adults Firstly before any legislation that a child is assessed under‚ an assessment has to be carried out to ascertain the following: * Gathering of information
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