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Child abuse is defined as when a parent or caregiver, whether through action or failing to act, causes injury, death, emotional harm or risk of serious harm to a child.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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It is important to know about child abuse because it can look different for every child.
There are many forms of child abuse including neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation and emotional abuse.

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How can this affect children's learning?

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How can this affect children's learning?

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Sadly, it is a largely accepted fact that abused and neglected children are at higher risk for lower academic achievement.
Children who are abused are worrying about so many other things than their school work - like where their next meal might come from or what they will home to after school.
Another challenge is if a child is removed from their home and placed in foster care, they may have to move schools. Moving from school to school can be a challenge for students. They could potentially fall behind.

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Every child deserves to grow up in a safe and healthy environment but that is not the case for everyone.
Good news is, there are ways for educators to help.
As discussed before there are many forms of abuse so you may not always see bruises on a child.
Here are a list of ways a school can help protect a child:
1. monitor changes in behaviors in a child
2. monitor self-images in a child
3. watch for attention seeking behaviors
4. watch for sudden weight loss
5. watch for lack or appetite
Those things do not mean a child is being abused/neglected but can be helpful to monitor just in case.

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It is the social workers role to identify and report abuse/neglect. Social workers are trained to identify these types of behaviors but it is important for other members of the school to be able to notice too.

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EIP is defined as a process of transparent, culturally sensitive and pragmatic practice choices with a client that draws on the best empirical evidence to help clients solve their problems (Massat, 2016).
There are five main goals in EIP.
1. Ask relevant questions
2. Gather data through research
3. Examine the data collected
4. Combine Evidence with Own Expertise and Clients' Preferences
5. Evaluate Entire Process and End Result
These steps will help to know if a solution was made and if the child is better off now.

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Monitoring a students process is so important, because knowing if they are better is the goal. A few ways to monitor are to have daily or weekly meeting with them, have them right down their feelings and of course for physical abuse you would need to check their bodies for new marks.

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Tier 1 of EIP includes evidence of effectiveness, student population, cost and resources, and school and community context.

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Tier 2 of EIP includes short-term individual interventions and also small group interventions. For this specific issue, individual interventions would be best.

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Tier 3 interventions are designed to address significant problems for which students are in need of intensive/serious interventions. Tier 3 interventions require careful planning.