This essay will discuss the 4 different types of abuse and will focus on how each type of abuse affects the child and their families. It will outline a number of strategies which will empower children to protect themselves and how the child care worker can make sure that they are not open to any allegations of child abuse. Finally it will look at the role of 2 voluntary services that would help in supporting children who have been abused.
             Child abuse is defined as the deliberate and unforgivable infliction of pain and suffering on children. The term abuse is the use of excessive physical violence, verbal abuse, incest, sexual molestation, child pornography, rape and the failure to provide proper furnish shelter, nourishment, medical treatment and emotional support to the child.
             There are 4 different types of child abuse these include physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and neglect
             Physical abuse may involve hitting, throwing, shaking, burning, poisoning or scalding, drowning, suffocating or otherwise causing physical harm to a child. Physical harm may also be caused if a parent or carer fakes the symptoms of, or causes a child to be deliberately ill whilst in their care. This type of abuse also includes giving a child drugs or alcohol.
             Sexual abuse is considered to be when an adult uses children for their own sexual gratification. It involves forcing or alluring a child to take part in sexual activities. The activities may involve physical contact, including penetrative or non-penetrative sexual acts, and also may includes none contact activities such as children looking at, or in the production of pornographic material, encouraging children to watch sexual activities and behaving in sexually inappropriate ways.
             Emotional abuse is the constant emotional ill treatment of a child, which causes persistent adverse effects on the child's emotional development. It may involve telling the child that th
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