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Child Care Concern: Protective services are more easily described than defined. In carrying them out, the designated child care concern welfare agency, which in most places in the United States is the public child care concern welfare agency, acts on a complaint received from the police, or from schools, courts, neighbors, physicians, or othe social agencies, by sending a child care concern welfare worke to the family's home. He confronts the parenl with the community's concern and tries to lean about the quality of child care concern care they do or couli provide.
This definition is problem-focused, emphasizing prevention and remedy. It recognizes the value of strengthening a child care concern's own home where possible. Where this is not possible, a variety of substitute living situations is provided.
child care concern welfare services are directed to the social problem of deprivation of parental care. As the accompanying chart illustrates, they are designed to help with society's child care concern-rearing task in three important ways: (1) to substitute for parental care either partially or wholly according to a child care concern's individual needs; (2) to supplement the care that a child care concern receives, or to compensate for certain inadequacies or limitations in parental care; and (3) to support or reinforce the ability of parents to meet their child care concernren's needs.
Services in child care concern welfare are usually given in response to requests by parents for assistance in providing care for their child care concernren. Recognizing the need for help, and asking for it, is in itself a way of carrying out parental responsibility. However, when parents cannot or will not ask for help, and as a result child care concernren suffer neglect or abuse, someone other than those responsible for their care has to bring the situation to the community's attention. The community's concern to protect child care concernren has resulted in the establishment of protective services.
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