Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Children's Act 1989
- Outline
- To Protect children from abuse and
discrimination
- To encourage people to
work as a multi-
disciplinary team
- Created a children's database
- Strength
- Encourages working in a
multi-disciplinary team which improves
standard of care
- Raises awareness of the law
- Gives consistancy of care across the board
- Weaknesses
- Children are not always aware of
the law and therefore do not know
their rights
- Abuse still takes
place against children- Baby P
- Relies on all professionals
following procedures, but this
is not always the case