Meeting the educational and employment needs of the child Parent positively supports Parent doesn’t engage Parent doesn’t engage with Parent actively learning/aspirations; engages with with/support learning/aspirations; school; actively resists discourages/prevents child from school. not engaged with school. suggestions of supportive learning or engaging with the interventions. school. Parent supports young person to Parent doesn’t support Parent discourages young Parent actively success in labour market. young person to success in person from success in labour obstructs/discourages person labour market. market. from success in labour market. Child has appropriate Concern that child’s education Child educated to hold intolerant, Child is educated by adults who education/opportunities for social doesn’t teach about different extremist views. Public services, are members of/have links to interaction with peers. cultures/faiths/ideas o, is e.g. schools/youth clubs not used; prescribed organisations see – derogatory/dismissive of different only mixing with children/adults link for list of terrorist groups/ faiths/cultures/ideas. who hold similar organisations banned under UK intolerant/extremist views. law Meeting the emotional needs of the child Child has emotionally warm, Parenting often lacks emotional Volatile/unstable family Child suffers long term neglect of stable family environment; warmth; can be overly critical environment: parenting is emotional needs; now at high risk parenting generally demonstrates and/or inconsistent. intolerant/critical/inconsistent/ of/is already involved in sexual or praise/emotional harsh/rejecting, impacting other forms of exploitation either warmth/encouragement. negatively on child. Emotional as perpetrator or victim neglect leaves child vulnerable to grooming/exploitative relationships with abusive adults/risky peer groups
Meeting the educational and employment needs of the child Parent positively supports learning/aspirations; engages with school. Parent doesn’t engage with/support learning/aspirations; not engaged with school. Parent doesn’t engage with school; actively resists suggestions of supportive interventions. Parent actively discourages/prevents child from learning or engaging with the school. Parent supports young person to success in labour market. Parent doesn’t support young person to success in labour market. Parent discourages young person from success in labour market. Parent actively obstructs/discourages person from success in labour market. Child has appropriate education/opportunities for social interaction with peers. Concern that child’s education doesn’t teach about different cultures/faiths/ideas o, is derogatory/dismissive of different faiths/cultures/ideas. Child educated to hold intolerant, extremist views. Public services, e.g. schools/youth clubs not used; only mixing with children/adults who hold similar intolerant/extremist views. Child is educated by adults who are members of/have links to prescribed organisations – see link for list of terrorist groups/ organisations banned under UK law Meeting the emotional needs of the child Child has emotionally warm, stable family environment; parenting generally demonstrates praise/emotional warmth/encouragement. Parenting often lacks emotional warmth; can be overly critical and/or inconsistent. Volatile/unstable family environment: parenting is intolerant/critical/inconsistent/ harsh/rejecting, impacting negatively on child. Emotional neglect leaves child vulnerable to grooming/exploitative relationships with abusive adults/risky peer groups Child suffers long term neglect of emotional needs; now at high risk of/is already involved in sexual or other forms of exploitation either as perpetrator or victim
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