National Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Children

According to The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), a child who is being looked after by the local authority is known as a child in care. In some cases a child will have been placed in care voluntarily by parents struggling to cope. In other cases children 's services will have intervened because a child was at risk of significant harm.
There are a number of reasons why a child may need to be put into care. Living with a disabled child can have a number of effects on the entire family-parents, siblings and extended family members. It is a unique shared experience for families and can affect all aspects of a families daily activities. On the positive side, it can broaden horizons, increase family members ' awareness of their inner strength, enhance family union, and encourage connections to community groups or religious organizations. On the negative side, the time and financial costs, physical and emotional demands, and logistical complications associated with raising a disabled child can have far-reaching effects as I
According to the journal of pediatric psychology a recent analysis indicates that peer activities and cognitive development scores are lower for siblings of children with a chronic illness compared to other children who have healthy siblings. Virtually nothing is known about siblings ' long-term economic, demographic, and physical health outcomes. Another potentially important but under-explored area is how child disability affects the well-being of grandparents and other extended family members and how the responses of those individuals to having a disabled child in the family affect the child 's parents. Overall, much more needs to be learned about how children 's health affects their parents, siblings, grandparents, and extended family