Physical a form of abuse which Neglect: the persistent failure to meet a may involve hitting, shaking, child’s basic physical and/or psychological throwing, poisoning, burning or needs, likely to result in the serious scalding, drowning, suffocating or impairment of the child’s health or otherwise causing physical harm to a development. Neglect may occur during child. Physical harm may also be pregnancy as a result of maternal substance caused when a parent or carer abuse. Once a child is born, neglect may fabricates the symptoms of, or involve a parent or carer failing to: provide deliberately induces, illness in a child. adequate food, clothing and shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment); protect a child from physical and emotional harm or danger; ensure adequate supervision (including the use of inadequate care-givers); or ensure access to appropriate medical care or treatment. It may also include neglect of, or unresponsiveness to, a child’s basic emotional needs. Sexual involves forcing or Emotional abuse: the persistent emotional enticing a child or young person to maltreatment of a child such as to cause take part in sexual activities, not severe and adverse effects on the child’s necessarily involving a high level of emotional development. It may involve violence, whether or not the child is conveying to a child that they are worthless or aware of what is happening. The unloved, inadequate, or valued only insofar activities may involve physical as they meet the needs of another person. It contact, including assault by may include not giving the child opportunities penetration (for example rape or oral to express their views, deliberately silencing sex) or non-penetrative acts such as them or fun’ of what they say or how ‘making masturbation, kissing, rubbing and they communicate. It may feature age or touching outside of clothing. They developmentally inappropriate expectations
Physical a form of abuse which may involve hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning or scalding, drowning, suffocating or otherwise causing physical harm to a child. Physical harm may also be caused when a parent or carer fabricates the symptoms of, or deliberately induces, illness in a child. Neglect: the persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child’s health or development. Neglect may occur during pregnancy as a result of maternal substance abuse. Once a child is born, neglect may involve a parent or carer failing to: provide adequate food, clothing and shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment); protect a child from physical and emotional harm or danger; ensure adequate supervision (including the use of inadequate care-givers); or ensure access to appropriate medical care or treatment. It may also include neglect of, or unresponsiveness to, a child’s basic emotional needs. Sexual involves forcing or enticing a child or young person to take part in sexual activities, not necessarily involving a high level of violence, whether or not the child is aware of what is happening. The activities may involve physical contact, including assault by penetration (for example rape or oral sex) or non-penetrative acts such as masturbation, kissing, rubbing and touching outside of clothing. They Emotional abuse: the persistent emotional maltreatment of a child such as to cause severe and adverse effects on the child’s emotional development. It may involve conveying to a child that they are worthless or unloved, inadequate, or valued only insofar as they meet the needs of another person. It may include not giving the child opportunities to express their views, deliberately silencing them or ‘making fun’ of what they say or how they communicate. It may feature age or developmentally inappropriate expectations
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