DATE:
21st November 2013
IDENTIFY EVIDENCE TYPE DIRECT OBSERVATION REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT x QUESTIONS EXPERT WITNESS PRODUCT WITNESS TESTIMONY
CANDIDATE NAME:
Sharyn Morgan
Evidence: It is important that children, young people, families and communities are free from victimisation, exploitation and abuse because it is written in the UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) which the UK signed in 1991.
This states in Article 19 that the Government must take all appropriate action to protect a child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care …show more content…
To victimise someone is to punish or discriminate against selectively or unfairly, or to make a victim of someone.
To exploit someone is to take advantage of them unethically or unjustly for one’s own advantage and to abuse someone is to maltreat, or speak insultingly or cruelly to.
Victimisation or abuse of a child can take many forms. A child could be a victim of bullying by other children, name calling, teasing, physical bullying such as pushing, kicking, punching or being spat at. Abuse could be at the hands of an adult or another child, being sexually abused, or physically abused, or even psychologically abused - name calling or constant put downs. All this makes a child a victim and is against the UNCRC.
To exploit a child is to have them do something against their will for another’s gain. A child could be made to work for another’s profit, to make them do something against their will because they are too young to understand it is wrong e.g. sexual acts. Again this is against the UNCRC and it is the child’s right to not be exploited, abused or made a