Child Protective Agent

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Recommended: Current policies and procedures in relation to child protection

"... 1,520 children died of abuse and neglect in 2013—most of them under the age of 4—had died of abuse or neglect over the previous six years, despite child protection authorities having knowledge that they were in unsafe situations." If a child dies under the care of any child protective agent (s), they should be held responsible for the death of the child due to the neglect of their responsibility, failure to take preventive measures, and failure of better training of agents. Neglect of responsibility from any child protective agency is something that can cause a greater risk to the child going through child abuse, due to the fact that they are not completing their service in a correct matter. (Should child services agents) "An estimated …show more content…

( Authors, Smith and Segal) "Child abuse doesn't only happen in poor families or bad neighborhoods. It crosses all racial, economic, and cultural lines.” Agencies should implement specific evaluation measures to identify gaps in their services, which include risk factors that could higher the safety of the child in care. Also taking a better evaluation of the case can lower chances of the child death. Child Protective agencies are corporations that should implement special care of their cases, failing to report a case is something that can effect everything in the process. There for following measures of the Childs case should be more cared about by reporting who has harmed the …show more content…

Opponents believe that child protective agencies are faced with difficult circumstances and no individual agent should be held responsible for the death of a client. While at the same time knowing that they were the ones who were put on the cases care. These opponents feel that these agents that are being help responsible for the Childs death do not disserve to be put in to jail, just because during the representation of the Childs case the case worker had already experienced maximum stress due to the harsh condition of the case itself. (should child protective services) "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), survivors of child maltreatment suffer from the health effects of their abuse their entire lives, facing an estimated $32,648 in medical costs while they are children and $10,530 in adult health care costs. Each year, the CDC estimates, the United States spends $124 billion caring for abused and neglected children." In reality the United States is spending increasing money on the cases of death of children each and every year, while in many cases one of the causes of the death can be failure of better training to agents of Child Protective agencies. Then again, the fact that the United States is loosing large amounts of money, it can directly effect the agencies pertaining to how they might be able to

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