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The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This includes knowledge of:
legal and ethical considerations for child protection work, and how these are applied in organisations and individual practice:challenges associated with potential tensions between own and organisation valueschildren in the workplace and child-focused practice, including issues for children in dealing with the legal systemcodes of conduct discriminationduty of care human rights mandatory reporting practitioner/client boundaries privacy, confidentiality and disclosurepolicy frameworks records management rights and responsibilities of workers, employers and clients, including legal services available to the client and notification protocolsspecific legislative frameworks that apply to child protection risk assessment, including:roles and responsibilities of key bodies within the child protection system including their powers, orders and processeslegal options available to children and familieschild protectionwitness legislationbail conditions to protect childrenrole of the independent child lawyer in the Family Court jurisdictionscriminal injuries compensationorders under domestic violence legislationwork role boundaries – responsibilities and limitationswork health and safetyconcept of risk in a child protection contextsituations requiring immediate interventiontheoretical and practical frameworks for issues in child protection assessment, including:abusetypes – psychological, physical, sexual, neglect, domestic violenceindicators impact on child and adolescent developmentintergenerational abuse and how to respondharmdefinitiondynamicsindicatorsfactors that increase or reduce vulnerability, severity and probabilitytrauma – types and impactsfamily systems theory and its application to child protection worknature of collaboration in the child protection contextfactors that impact vulnerability, and how these are evaluated in the risk assessment process, including:child's age and developmental stage, physical, social and emotional wellbeingimmediate/actual evidence of harmavailability of family/other protective support systemsisolationprevious history of harm and intervention needscommitment to engage to reduce/eliminate risk of harmability and capacity to address the situationadmissions/disclosure informationfactors that affect family functioning and their impact on the risk assessment process, including:drug and alcohol use/abusemental health concernsphysical health and abilityintellectual disabilitydomestic and family violencefamily dynamics in different cultures and the cultural issues that inform child protection worksources of information that inform risk assessment, and how to analyse these, including:consulting with relevant people known to the child and their circumstancesnotifier informationprevious child protection historyspecialist assessments, how and when they are used, including:forensic medical criminal psychosocialdevelopmentalorganisation standards, policies and procedures in relation to:documentation processes and organisation information systems and tools to be used for complex risk assessmentinformation sharing and referral protocolsinteragency practicescritical incident reportingoptions and requirements for action in response to differing assessment results roles and functions of support agencies and processescontemporary approaches to respectful and professional standards for case documentation.