Management of Child Abuse

Question: Discuss about theManagement of Child Abuse. Answer: Introduction The aim of the following brief is to identify the major child abuse cases in the premise of Singapore and the detection and management of the child abuses. The thesis that the paper is desiring to establish, is that the measures taken against the frequent child abuses are not being properly managed as the existing measures require significant improvement. In the year 2012, according to the investigation made by MSF (Ministry of Social and Family development) more than 247 child abuse cases have detected. Among them physical abuse has the most dominant form of abuse. However, it is unfortunate and at the same time shocking to denote that among the listed case 30% has been of sexual abuse and 10% of the rest have been emotional as well as physical abuses (Ngiam Tung, 2016). It is astonishing to note down that several times investigation has revealed that the parents inflict most of physical injuries upon their toddlers. For examples, case Mohamad Daniel Mohamad Nasser is possibly the major example of the fact that how brutal parents can turn for own children. The two years old, Daniel died after having terrible injuries from his mother and her boyfriend. Such similar cases have been listed among the 551 other serious child abuse cases in the year 2015. Between the years 2012 -2014, the number of child abuse case in Singapore has been r aised to 380-400 a year (Tran et al., 2016). Among several issues and reasons about child abuse, it has been identified that the parents have inflicted injuries several times upon their children due to their own childhood and psychological issues. However, in terms of ensuring proper detection and management of the child abuses, it has been found out that in Singapore, two major child abuse detectors and management operators are MSF and CPS (Child Protective Service) (ABUSE MATTER, 2013). On the other hand, there several volunteer schemes like EAF (Enable-a-family), which helps children by providing additional help through providing volunteers whose responsibility, is to observe whether a child is being neglected or abused by his/her own family members or not. However, most of the time effectiveness in investigating child abuses and managing them has been acquired from the MSF and CPS. MSF is solely responsible for investigating more than 272 cases of child abuse, while CPS is efficient in collecting reports and making investigations for determining the risk levels of the children. Instead of these, in Singapore, there is The Children and Young Persons Act that works as a powerful measure in form of legislation that is effect ive in providing support and protection to the children who are below the age level of 14 (Li et al., 2014). Furthermore, in the field of child protection, some of the major agencies, which are working potentially to mitigate child abuse cases, are MCY, CAPT (The Child Abuse Protection Team) and various parenting programs and Carers recovery programs are there in Singapore, which are acting actively to end the social curse. However, the question, which arises even after identifying handful organizations and measures to stop child abuse, is that if the country is growing with more child protection agencies, then in what way the number of child abuses are raising with each passing year. The answer is possibly the lack of effectiveness among the existing measures, which are immediately needed to be modified. It has been noticed in this context that there is not enough measures for acquiring a high index of suspicion for the abuses on children (Lim et al., 2015). On the other hand, the existing measures lack the capability to note down the warning signs of child abuse. Most significantly, most of the time it has been observed that the measures and the child abuse management individuals of CAPT and MSF are not paying enough attention in listening to the children and only giving attention upon resolving the incidents (Ramachandran, 2015). Therefore, considering the evidences against the current measures to mitigate child abuse in Singapore, it can be said that immediate improvements are required. Measures like National Database on Child Abuse and joint collaboration between MSF and the legal authorities have proven effective. As per the issues like not paying attention to the children opinion, it can be said that the present government should take initiatives to open various agencies whose responsibility would be make thorough counseling non the abused child (Ramachandran, 2015). It would be effective if, there would be a particular team of psychiatrists and social workers who would conduct weekly survey on local schools and meet with the students to identify signs of physical or mental abuse among the children. References ABUSE, W.I.C. MATTER, W.D.I., (2013). Management of child abuse.Singapore Med J,54(10), pp.533-537. Li, D., Chu, C.M., Ng, W.C. Leong, W., (2014). Predictors of re-entry into the child protection system in Singapore: A cumulative ecologicaltransactional risk model.Child abuse neglect,38(11), pp.1801-1812. Lim, C.G., Ong, S.H., Chin, C.H. Fung, D.S.S., (2015). Child and adolescent psychiatry services in Singapore.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health,9(1), p.7. Ngiam, X.Y. 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