6N1945: You Are The Supervisor In The Alphabet Crèche & Pre-School: QQI Level 6 Childhood Social Legal & Health Studies Assignment, UCC, Ireland

Assignment 1 – Child Protection Case Study

 You are the supervisor in The Alphabet Crèche & Pre-School. The following situation has arisen and you must use best practices in the current Chid Protection Guidelines to deal with the issues.

The following child attends your pre-school. You have become concerned about his welfare. The Case Study presented below records the child protection issues which require addressing. Your task is to review the prepared case study and identify the issues and actions that are required to respond to and manage the situation. You must also complete the Tusla Standard Report form, using only the information presented in the case study.

Child Protection – Case Study

Joey Murphy is aged 3 years and 7 months. He has been attending The Alphabet Crèche & Pre-School since he was 18months old.  Initially, he attended three days a week from 8 am until 5 pm, whilst his mother returned to employment. Since the age of 2 years and 6 months, Joey has been attending full-time. Joey’s mother drops him off at 7:45 am each morning and collects him no later than 5:15 pm.

Joey lives with his mother Jennie, his father Rob, and his older sister Alice aged 7 years. Alice also attended ‘Alphabet’ as a baby and toddler. Jennie is expecting her third child and is currently twenty weeks pregnant. Both parents work full-time – Jennie manages an office in the local town and Rob owns his own contracting business. Alice is in 1st Class in the local primary school. They live in a very pretty rural area and have just completed renovations on a cottage that has been in Rob’s family for some time. The family is well known in the local area.