You can contact us in the following ways: Telephone: 0121 303 1234. Email: [email protected].
Who do you call if you have a concern about a child Birmingham?
If you have concerns regarding a child please contact the Children’s Advice and Support Service on 0121 303 1888 or via e-mail: [email protected]. Outside of normal office hours call the Emergency Duty Team on 0121 675 4806.
Contact social services at your local council and ask for a needs assessment. You can call them or do it online.
Help from social services and charities
- Telephone helplines and forums.
- Getting a needs assessment.
- Care and support plans.
- Financial assessment (means test)
- Someone to speak up for you (advocate)
- Care for people with mental health problems (Care Programme Approach)
- Abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults.
What is adult social care? Adult social services cover a range of support and activities to support people who are older or live with a disability or a physical or mental illness. You can get in touch with us if you need help with things like: daily tasks to look after yourself and your family.
What is classed as child neglect?
Neglect is the ongoing failure to meet a child’s basic needs and the most common form of child abuse2. A child might be left hungry or dirty, or without proper clothing, shelter, supervision or health care. This can put children and young people in danger.
Who should you call if you are worried about the welfare of a child?
If you think a child is in immediate danger you should call the police on 999. If you are worried about a child or young person please call 020 7974 3317 (out of hours: 020 7974 4444).
What Do Social Services Do? Social Services have a statutory obligation to safeguard and promote the welfare of vulnerable children and can offer a wide range of care services to children and their parents. Social Services’ care department helps ensure children are healthy, safe, and well looked after.
As a social worker, you’ll work with people to find solutions to their problems. This may be helping to protect vulnerable people from harm or abuse or supporting people to live independently. You’ll work with clients, their families and others around them and with different client groups including: the elderly.
If there are concerns that a child is being abused or neglected, professionals, family members or anyone else who is concerned can approach social services, the police or contact the NSPCC directly for advice.
The helpline team will make a report and share information with social services. They might also contact local police if the child is in immediate danger. If the helpline don’t need to make a referral, they’ll give you advice on what you can do or information on local services.
If you’re worried that a child or young person is at risk or is being abused contact the children’s social care team at their local council. You’ll be asked for your details, but you can choose not to share them. Call 999 if the child is at immediate risk.
Social workers must have a degree in social work (BA), or master’s degree in social work. A master’s degree is a two-year-long postgraduate course for those with a degree in a different subject. Some universities offer part-time studying. Experience is an important part of social work qualifications.
Assistance includes counseling and care for children in neglectful or abusive situations; food and housing subsidies; healthcare and prescription plans; job training; and adoption and foster care services.
A Section 47 Enquiry might also be referred to as a Child Protection enquiry, a Child Protection Investigation, or an S47. These investigations are carried out to assess if there is the risk of significant harm to a child (or children).
This includes:
- mental health problems.
- physical ill-health.
- disability.
- learning disabilities.
- cognitive disabilities.
- dependence on alcohol or drugs.
What are the 4 types of child neglect?
Answer
- Physical Neglect. The failure to provide necessary food, clothing, and shelter; inappropriate or lack of supervision.
- Medical Neglect. The failure to provide necessary medical or mental health treatment.
- Educational Neglect.
- Emotional Neglect.
What are the 5 types of child neglect?
While neglect may be harder to define or to detect than other forms of child maltreatment, child welfare experts have created common categories of neglect, including physical neglect; medical neglect; inadequate supervision; environmental, emotional, and educational neglect; and newborns addicted or exposed to drugs,
What are the 4 signs of neglect?
Signs of Neglect
Poor personal hygiene. Clothes dirty/in bad state of repair. Has untreated medical problems. Doesn’t have any friends.
What are good reasons to call CPS?
This includes physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional maltreatment, and exposure to domestic violence. Neglect refers to situations in which a child’s caregiver fails to provide adequate clothing, food or shelter, deliberately or otherwise.
What happens when you report someone to safeguarding?
A person will be identified lead the enquiry and they will always talk to the adult at risk wherever they can. They can arrange for the adult at risk to be supported by an advocate.