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Parental Issues
Parental issues can impact children and young people and how they grow and develop.
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Children in the Care of Others
Children may live in the care of others under a variety of arrangements with or without the formal badge of "being looked after". These children may face specific risks and it's important we can identify the different arrangements there may be.
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Domestic Abuse and Children
Domestic abuse is a serious safeguarding concern that can have a significant and lasting impact on children and young people, affecting their emotional wellbeing, physical health, development, behaviour and educational outcomes. Children who see, hear or experience the effects of domestic abuse are recognised as victims in their own right under the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, where the statutory conditions are met. Domestic abuse can include physical or sexual abuse, violent or threatening behaviour, coercive or controlling behaviour, economic abuse, and psychological or emotional abuse. For schools and other education settings, recognising the signs of domestic abuse, understanding its impact on children and responding appropriately to safeguarding concerns are essential to protecting children from harm. This guidance explores the indicators, risks and consequences of domestic abuse, alongside practical steps that designated safeguarding leads (DSLs), teachers and other education professionals can take to identify concerns and support affected children and families.
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Perplexing Presentations and Fabricated or Induced Illness
Although rare, there may be times when a parent or carer presents a child as ill or more unwell/more disabled than the child actually is. There are many reasons why this can happen, but children can experience physical harm, emotional harm and neglect as a result of this form of abuse.
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Female Genital Mutilation
Female genital mutilation (sometimes referred to as female circumcision) refers to procedures that intentionally alter and cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. It is illegal in the UK.
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Forced Marriage
Forced marriages are illegal in the UK as is removing someone from the country to force them to marry in a different country.
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Honour-based Abuse
'Honour’-based abuse is abuse that is perpetrated to protect or defend the honour of a family or community.
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Parental Learning Difficulty
Many parents with learning difficulties feel doubly discriminated against and feel they are seen as a failure all their lives. They often argue that services do not understand them, do not listen to them and do not expect them to succeed.
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Parental Mental Ill-health: Safeguarding Children and Young People
It is estimated that a third of children in England aged 0 to 15 live with a parent with moderate to severe mental ill-health symptoms. For some, the presence of mental ill-health may have little or no impact on the day-to-day parenting that they receive. For others, the impact may be more significant.
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The Impact of Poverty
Living in poverty can compromise a child or young person’s aspirations, health, well-being and achievements. Education settings play an essential role in easing this impact and creating opportunities.
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Parental Substance Misuse
The evidence available to us tells us that children are at greater risk of harm when they live in households with parental substance misuse problems, with increased risks of domestic abuse, neglect, a poor home environment and exposure to unsafe substances.
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Young Carers
Young carers are all unique. Their caring role will differ depending on the needs of the person they care for. Regardless of the caring role they take on, they face additional challenges at home and in education.
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Harmful Practices
'Harmful practices’ is a collective term for several different forms of abuse which all share a similar characteristic and are seen as acceptable practices within some sections of society.
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Child Substance Misuse
When considering substance misuse, a lot of the time we think about parental drug or alcohol misuse and the impact that this can have on children and young people. However, children and young people are exposed to substances from a very young age, and as with adults there is the potential for addiction and life changing consequences.
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Resources for child abuse linked to faith or belief
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Child abuse linked to faith or belief
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Harmful practices poster
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Information and support for victims of ‘honour’-based abuse
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Recognising domestic abuse
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Domestic Abuse Poster
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Parent Substance Misuse Poster
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Child substance misuse poster
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Child-on-child abuse poster
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Emotional abuse poster
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Poverty poster
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Missing children poster
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Online safety poster
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Family in prison poster
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Preventing radicalisation poster
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Sexual abuse poster
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Sexual violence and sexual harassment poster
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Neglect poster
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Operation Encompass
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Parental Mental Ill-health Poster