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It contains policy information, procedures, flowcharts and a glossary of terms.  \nPolicy  \nWhy have a Child Protection Policy?  \nForest Arts supports young people in providing access and inclusion to the Arts and Music Education both at the Centre and in Walsall Schools.  \nSafeguarding is everyone’s responsibility:  \nChild protection is a part of safeguarding and promoting welfare. This refers to the activity which is undertaken to protect specific children who are suffering or are at risk of suffering significant harm. As adults and/or professionals or volunteers, everyone has a responsibility to safeguard children and promote their welfare.  \nSafeguarding and promoting the welfare of children – and in particular protecting them from significant harm-depends upon effective joint working between agencies and professionals that have different roles and expertise. Individual children, especially some of the most vulnerable children and those at greatest risk of social exclusion, will need co-ordinated help from health, education, children’s social care, and quite possibly the voluntary sector and other agencies, including youth justice services.  \nFor those children who are suffering, or at risk of suffering significant harm, joint working is essential, to safeguard and promote welfare of the child(ren) and – where necessary – to help bring to justice the perpetrators of crimes against children. All agencies and professionals should:  \n• be alert to potential indicators of abuse or neglect;  \n• be alert to the risks which individual abusers, or potential abusers, may pose to children;  \n• share and help to analyse information so that an assessment can be made of the child’s needs and circumstances;  \n• contribute to whatever actions are needed to safeguard and promote the child’s welfare;  \n• take part in regularly reviewing the outcomes for the child against specific plans; and  \n• work co-operatively with parents unless this is inconsistent with ensuring the child’s safety.  \n(Working Together to Safeguard Children, 2010, DCSF , now DfE)  \nDefinitions of abuse and neglect:  \nAbuse and neglect are forms of maltreatment of a child. Somebody may abuse or neglect a child by inflicting harm, or by failing to act to prevent harm. Children may be abused in a family or in an institutional or community setting; by those known to them or, more rarely, by a stranger. They may be abused by an adult or adults or another child or children.  \nPhysical abuse  \nPhysical abuse may involve hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning or scalding, drowning, suffocating, or otherwise causing physical harm to a child. Physical harm may also be caused when a parent or carer fabricates the symptoms of, or deliberately induces illness in a child.  \nEmotional Abuse  \nEmotional abuse is the persistent emotional maltreatment of a child such as to cause severe and persistent adverse effects on the child’s emotional development. It may involve conveying to children that they are worthless or unloved, inadequate, or valued only insofar as they meet the needs of another person. It may include not giving the child opportunities to express their views, deliberately silencing them or ‘making fun’ of what they say or how they communicate. It may feature age or developmentally inappropriate expectations being imposed on children. These may include interactions that are beyond the child’s developmental capability, as well as overprotection and limitation of exploration and learning, or preventing the child participating in normal social interaction. It may involve seeing or hearing the ill-treatment of another. 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