Read through the following information and select the category you consider the allegation to fall into
Physical:
A child has been hit or excessive force has been used sometimes resulting in an injury
Emotional:
Adult shouting/swearing at children and calling them names; provoking a child to induce challenging behaviour, making negative derogatory comments towards a child, humiliating a child. This may include telling them that they are hopeless, useless and will never amount to anything over an extended period. The result of this action will have some sort of impact on the child such as becoming withdrawn, upset, and fearful, distressed or changes in their behaviour have been observed
Sexual:
Inappropriate sexual contact or touching. This would also include some form of grooming taking place including the use of social media and sending of indecent images of self or others to children.
Neglect:
Neglect is taken to mean the persistent failure to meet a child's basic physical and/or psychological needs, and which has or is likely to result in the serious impairment of the child's health or development. It may also be the failure to protect a child from physical and emotional harm or danger; ensure adequate supervision (including the use of inadequate caregivers); or failure to ensure access to appropriate medical care or treatment.
Conduct:
Inappropriate use of social media by an adult i.e. to befriend a child but without any evidence of sexual grooming. An adult in a relationship with another adult who has offences against children or is a risk to children where there are children in the household/contact with children. Poor practice or poor professional judgment with an element of safeguarding i.e. child has been harmed while in the care of the adult, not reporting safeguarding concerns appropriately. The adult’s own children are subject to child protection plans and when the adult is implicated directly or through a failure to protect.
