Child Abuse Proper Management Systems

Question: Discuss about theChild Abusefor Proper Management Systems. Answer: Introduction Thesis: Overcoming issues in child abuse and introducing proper management systems for reporting and handling child abuse is extremely important for decreasing the rate of child abuse in Singapore. Child abuse is a growing concern in the nation of Singapore. Government had been trying to monitor different cases and is trying their best to implement different initiatives that will help such cases to be erased from the grass root level itself. The government had tried to implement different deterrent methods to make the population aware of the punishments and the consequences that they may face if they conduct such heinous crime. However decrease in the rate of such crime is not reported and in turn it is yet rising in different part of Singapore (Li et al., 2014). A number of socio economic issues have been identified that have acted as the main reason for the increasing number of child abuse in Singapore. The first number is the lack of education in a number of families where children are forced to work for their parents. Moreover the lack of education in the families gives them no idea about the way how a child should be treated. They often provide harsh punishments for their kid to learn something which in turn has negative consequences (Deblinger et al. 2015). Often many cultures also support physical abuse in terms of making their child good for future. Through various case studies that had been reported, it is seen that mental distortion and harshness of the parents were the main contributor to the ill health of the disease. Frustration form the poor economic background and also lack of proper knowledge to treat toddlers are the main reasons (Abuse Matter, 2013). Sexual abuse of the children is also reported in high end cases and the in vestigators are still trying to reach the root of mental parity of the perpetrators in such cases. Government has implemented a law called the Children and Young Persons Act which was amended in the year 2011 that had instructed the homes of every child to be licensed, enhancing the protection and also welfare of children in residential care, initiatives of reviews for such children to be conducted and also to be visited by officials to monitor them. However all such initiatives failed miserably as the reporting if each of the cases has been too few because neighbors often hesitate to report them or are forbidden to do that and even threatened. Moreover reports suggest that the professionals who visit the places of children are not totally trained and expert enough to identify the children undergoing abuse (Ngiam Tung, 2016). Many teachers who are involved in counseling sessions of the school have also reported that the children are threatened by their perpetrators to keep silent to outsiders or they would be beaten more. This entire issues sum up to lesser reporting of cases or even if reported the cases are not properly handled even if government and home ministry are trying their best. In order to reduce the number of occurrences, a clear policy on child abuse have to be published by the government that will help each and every people to understand their duties towards an abused child. This policy will help the individuals to take steps sequentially when they find that any known or unknown child is getting abused. The policy should introduce help line number which will be active always so that the witnesses can help the child from the abuse. This helpline number should allow the government officials to reach the site quickly to help the child and catch the perpetrators red handed. The professional investigators who would be working for the organizations in both the private and the governmental sectors should be polished enough so that they can recognize the victim even if their perpetrators try to portray the situations otherwise (Ngiam et al., 2017). The investigations should be conducted at a frequent basis and without prior notice s that the instances of finding more child abuse case would become common. Moreover reporting of such cases should be made simpler without any hassles so that the witnesses do not hesitate to report them moreover the government should also take initiatives of programs where they would conduct workshops and play sessions to communicate with children and make them express their feelings. The policies should be instructed to be quick in their activities so that they can save the children at the right time before disaster takes place (Morris, Rivaux Faulkner, 2017). Properly planed systems should be introduced based on evidences which will be headed by experts who will publish new rules and norms after investigating the nature of the crimes that happen to each child. A nation who protects the children from crimes on them can be sure of a generation which will see success in education, science and culture. Reference: ABUSE, W. I. C., MATTER, W. D. I. (2013). Management of child abuse.Singapore Med J,54(10), 533-537. Deblinger, E., Mannarino, A. P., Cohen, J. A., Runyon, M. K., Heflin, A. H. (2015).Child sexual abuse: A primer for treating children, adolescents, and their nonoffending parents. Oxford University Press. 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), 1801-1812. Morris, M., Rivaux, S., Faulkner, M. (2017). 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