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Information/Details: neglect occurs when a child
does not receive proper care, supervision, or
neglect to report the case to the country department
of social services
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Information/Details: gather all the information you By: Jacquera Brown
can about the suspected incident or incidents and
write it up in actual and behavioral terminology.
Notify your direct administrator of the information
you have that cause you to suspect abuse or
neglect.
After he/she gathers all the information they may
assign case number so be prepared to jot this
down.
Ask the counselor if he/she feels that the child can
go home if the school should retain him/her until the
caseworker appears.
The school nurse under the direction of the building
administrator may photograph any obvious marks
or contusions for evidence.
Once the case is reported you will protable receive
a report of suspected child abuse or maltreatment
form from the department of social services.
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Information/Details: child abuse is very bad and the Information/Details: physical abuse is often the
statistic of neglect is 62.8% most recognizable form of abuse, as visible
Sexual abuse 9.3% physical indications may be evident. It can be
emotional/psychological abuse 7.1% defined as an injury or a pattern of injuries to a
Medical neglect 2.0% child that is non-accidental. Included in this
Other 14.3% definition may be the following physical signs: welts,
burns, bites, strangulations, broken bones, internal
injuries, cigarette burns, immersion burns, and/ or
dry burns.
Emotional abuse is name-calling, ridicule,
degradation, exacerbating a fear, destroying
personal possessions, torture or destruction of a pet
and excessive criticism. It also includes or routine
labeling or humiliation or withholding of commun
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Information/Details: child abuse is a form of child
abuse that includes sexual activity with a minor. It
includes obscene phones calls, text messages, or
digital interaction, fondling, exhibitionism, or
exposing oneself to a minor, masturbation in the
presence of a minor or forcing the minor to
masturbate. It also includes intercourse, sex of any
kind with a minor, including vaginal, oral, or anal,
producing, owning, or sharing pornographic images
or movies of children, sex trafficking, any other
sexual conduct that is harmful to a childs mental,
emotional, or physical welfare.