SOCIAL ISSUES

Agency Approaches to Social Issues



Agency Approaches to Social Issues

Introduction

The paper aims to emphasize on the various approaches in order to safeguard and protect both adults and children. Moreover, the paper highlights the policies, legislations and practices regarding the issues. Furthermore, a number of various issues are discussed in the paper such as discrimination, child abuse and discrimination. In today`s world, children and adults are often face severe issues and problems in the form of discrimination and sexual abuse. Children are victims of many forms of violence (Barker, 2004). They can be exploited as slaves, used as soldiers and forced to work. Children may be abandoned and abused. Violence takes place in the streets, in schools, in hospitals and other places that could be considered secure. Children are vulnerable and dependent on adults for meet many of their material and moral necessities. They cannot defend themselves and their views, which is often neither required nor heard. Therefore, special measures and approaches are needed in order to compensate for their vulnerability (Brown, 2010).

In many European countries, society tolerates and sometimes even approves certain current forms of violence against children. In most cases, the violence against children remains invisible. This is because the children are afraid to talk about and report it. The program building a Europe for children is intended to assist States to develop strategies for prevention of violence (Cleaver, 2007). The systems reporting cases of violence, support measures for families with early detection and special treatment by professionals. The program aims to help provide authorities and professionals to contact children with the ability to react promptly and adequate when they are reported cases of violence. Special efforts are being made to eliminate sexual abuse and exploitation of Children (Doyle, 2006).

Background

Everyday life of modern child protection permeated all kinds of conflicts of interest. For instance, the role of a parent, prepare the children for life in society and require them to subordinate social rules in order to helps them to deal with the external pressure. The resolution of these conflicts requires not only the variety of actors who could provide different points of view, but also the diversity of approaches to the assessment of the situation (Ferguson, 2011). Effective protection of children is based on a pluralisation which supports international law: the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The protection services in crisis of legitimacy (lack of trust in their government) in all countries. The increasing pace of confrontation Juvenal can be entered in the general trend of the crisis of legitimacy of child protection with the reservation that all the specific situation of the post-socialist space. The crisis of legitimacy means that the existing order of the service is not credible, and the criteria used by experts to assess the situation of the family and the child are not clear and not being taken public. The distinction between the terms legitimacy is particularly important for the analysis of the situation in United ...