Scenario: Kaya and Callen - Indicators Of Harm

[April92]

Scenario: Kaya and Callen
it is March 2015 and you are an educator at Cresthill Early Learning centre.
kaya 3.5years and Callen 20 months, have attended Cresthill Education and care service, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday for the past 12 months. kaya mum Lucille recently had a baby boy Zachary who is 2 month old. kaya parents have migrated to Australia 14 months ago and have no extended family or support in Australia. Lucille has limited English.

kaya has alway been chirpy and is popular amongst her friends. kaya is fully toilet trained for the last 6 months however in the last 2 weeks she has been having toiling accidents. she has also recently been displaying aggressive behaviour when playing with other children. you have discussed kaya toiling accidents with her mum at the drop off time and have also mentioned about her aggressive behaviour.

Callen is 20months old. in the last 2 weeks called has changed from being a happy a playful child to now sitting in corner of the room. when educators have approached called he will often appear afraid and cry. when this behaviour wad discuss with his mum, she mention " their dad come home late from work frunk and yells at the children, especially called I try hard not make him angry".

when kaya and callen arrive at 9 am with their mum today, you greet them and their mum in the centre foyer. the children are playing outdoor so you ask kaya and callen to get their hats. mum says ' I sorry I forgot their bag we have hard night, called dad hit called for crying'. you suggest kaya and callen get spare hats from the foyer. she then say goodbye and leaves. after mum leaves, you assist callen in putting his hat on and you notice callen has black right eye and big round bump on the right hand side of his forehead, about 50cent in size. you ask ' are you ok" callen sees care on the mat and moves towards the mat, away from other children.
you walk over to join callen at the car mat and Rosie ( another educator in the room) say's " I can't believe Callen mum forgot their bag again, and can you see the lump he has on his head? that so bad"

Question:
list the indicators of harm Kaya
list the indicators of harm Callen
list the risk factor for this family
base on the information from the scenario, what type of abuse and or neglect do you think might be occurring?
what is the ethical issue in this example? the scenario and identify the educator

please help me please I'm stuck this question

[Lorina]

- aggressive behaviour
- the change of behaviour from both children
- the bruising etc.

It's all in the scenario...

,
Lorina