Children who are found is be neglected or abused or at high risk because of some deficiency in their family situation require specialized protective services from the community and its social agencies.
The aim of the child protective service is to guard children from further detrimental experiences or conditions in their immediate situation, bring under control and reduce the risks to their safety or well-being, prevent further neglect or abuse, and restore adequate parental functioning whenever possible or if necessary, take steps to remove children from their own home and establish them in a foster situation where they will receive more adequate care. Protective services also are concerned with social planning and action to change community conditions which can contribute to poor child care and parental failure.
Child protective services are characterized by certain distinctive features:
The way in which service is initiated.
The increased agency responsibility which accompanies work with parents of children-at-risk.
The kind of agency sanction or community authorization, and
The balance required in the use of authority in relation to the rights of parent – child- society.
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