Child ProtectionCase study #1
You're a social service worker working in a rural medical clinic. A mother brings her child to the healthcentre with a scald burn along the child's head, face, and shoulders. The mother explains that four-year-old Chloe pulled a boiling pot of spaghetti from the stove onto herself. That explanation seems to fit theburns. When the triage nurse asks for more details about the incident to provide the best medical carefor Chloe, the mother admits that she really doesn't know what else to add because she was outsidehanging laundry. She's clearly distraught and admits it was a terrible accident, but states emphatically that Chloe had been told repeatedly never to touch anything on the stove and knew better.
Please answer the following Questions:
1. Should you as an SSW report this incident?
2. What category of abuse has this child experienced?
3. List 3 possible dispositions that can be made once a child is determined tobe in need of protection.
4. Please describe how these orders differ?