Assignment task: Critically analyse the advantages and disadvantages of using risk assessment and risk management approaches when working with young people and families in child protection:
- Introduction
- Define risk, risk factors, risk assessment and risk management
- What are the advantages of risk assessment and risk management strategies in child protection (why it's important and why we do it).
- What are the disadvantages of risk assessment and risk management strategies in child protection?
- Provide recommendations about how to use risk effectively and ethically in child protection and in a way that promotes young people's immediate safety and longer term development and wellbeing (focus on young people's strengths, building resilience, consider their trauma (trauma informed practice and care) and be sensitive, they might be feeling fragile, empathy, give them autonomy on what they wanna talk about, empowering and respectful.)
- Conclusion