1. Safeguarding Children In The Emergency Department
In this essay I am going to discuss the importance of safeguarding children in an Emergency Department (ED). I will discuss what safeguarding is and the need for it within an ED. I will also discuss the government's policies on safeguarding and how they affect our actions. I will also discuss risk assessment and its influence upon government policy and direction. Before the introduction of risk assessment methods in child protection in the 1980's the assessment and prediction of children at risk from abuse was a capricious business: care workers had no theory, or methodology and no ...
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- Approx Pages: 14
- Grade Level: Undergraduate