What to expect?
What to Expect
What is a Child Safety Decision-Making Model?
Child Safety Decision Making Model
Why are there 4 different types of assessments?
What is an assessment?
What are the steps of an assessment?
How can you implement assessment outcomes?
Implementing assessment outcomes
How do you close, appeal and review responses?
Closing a response
Appealing a Response
Reviewing a Response
Do you work for an organisation?
What are governance issues?
Do we care about people?
Do we really care about people?
Do we care about you?
Do we really care about you?
What are the principles behind response strategies?
Principles behind the Response Process
Do you want to keep learning?
Further education options

Child Safety Assessment: Time to Analyse

Challenges

Is the child facing any challenges? A challenge in a child’s life can be any event or situation that the child has to deal with.  It could be a traumatic event, or it could be pattern of behaviour that may cause cumulative harm, such as neglect or bullying.

How is this challenging impacting them now, and how could it impact them in the future?

Resources

Individual children and families have different resources at their disposal.  Concerns to child’s well-being occurs when their resources and/or those of their care givers are not adequate to deal with a specific challenge.    Therefore, there at times a child or family can benefit from the assistance and support from others.  Are the resources of the child, family and/or community enough for them to deal with the current challenges?

One must assess the parents (or caregivers) capacity to provide for the specific needs (possibly new needs) of a child.  This may include the parents (or caregivers):

  • Parents belief of the concerns
  • Ability to prioritize the child’s needs over other priorities in their lives.
  • Issues that may hinder the parents’ ability to provide for the child’s needs.

One must assess the capacity of the family’s community to be able to provide for the needs of the child(ren).

Are they any unmet safety needs?  Does the family, and/or community need assistance to meet the child’s unmet needs.