Introduction to Child Neglect

Target Audience:

This course is recommended for anyone who works with children, young people or their families.

It is strongly recommended that Working Together to Safeguard Children is completed first.

Aim:

To enable practitioners to better identify neglect and understand its impact on children and young people

Learning Outcomes, by the end of the course the participants will be able to:

• List the various types of neglect and its implications for child development
• Describe the different levels of intervention in relation to neglect
• Describe the impact that neglect has on children at different stages of their development
• Explore attachment theory and why understanding attachment is important to understanding neglect
• Explore the issues relating to Black and Ethnic Minority families and disabled children