In the last of our safeguarding series, Catherine Rushforth considers practitioners who must tackle difficult issues with troubled parents.
In this article I will focus on children who might 'appear' to have additional needs and the attendant professional responsibility to safeguard, protect and promote their well-being.
Key points to consider are:
- The practitioner's journey with a parent in coming to terms with additional needs in their child, including the possibility of emotionally 'holding' them through a possible stage of denial.
- Over-protective or disengaged parents, who may be fabricating illness in their child.
- The need for expanded professional thinking around the assessment process.
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