Using the case study, complete a case analysis of the Child Protection safeguarding concerns’

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Using the case study, complete a case analysis of the Child Protection safeguarding concerns’

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Case Study: Dave, Maisy and Jessie

 

Part 1

Maisy lives with her husband Dave. They are both in their forties and are White British. Dave has Multiple Sclerosis and uses a wheelchair. He doesn’t work and he likes to go to a local pub to chat with friends regularly. Maisy works for a local IT company a few days a week. They have a daughter, Jessie, who is 22 and she has a mild learning disability. She still lives at home and she does some voluntary work at a café. Jessie reports to her boss at the café one week that her dad has been getting increasingly angry at her mum and that she keeps hearing her mum crying. When she asks her if she is okay she says she is fine but she has overheard her telling her auntie that she wants to leave him.

Jessie comes into the café and tells her boss that her dad hit her mum and that he is mean to her. She wants to move out of the home but doesn’t want to leave her mum. She says that she is happy to speak to a social worker so long as they don’t speak to her parents

Dave contacts a social worker to say that his wife has moved out and that she was his main carer so he needs some support. He says that his wife would get drunk and shout at him and sometimes she would not give him his meals. He tells the social worker that his daughter Jessie lives with him and that he also needs support to help care for her as her mum used to make all the meals.

Dave’s SW arranges to see him at home and sees that the home is very messy and dirty. Jessie is there and tells the SW that Dave has become very upset and depressed lately and that she and her mum can’t look after him anymore. Jessie says she doesn’t want to live at home anymore and that she is going to move out as well. They agree to the SW arranging a meeting with them together with the relevant professionals.

At the meeting, we hear from the family and they express their wishes and ideal outcomes. Dave- He wants to continue living at home with his wife and daughter. He says he has become depressed because he feels useless and a burden to his family.

Maisy- Says she will live with Dave if he gets help with his depression and drinking and he agrees to carers helping a few days a week so that she gets a break.
Jessie- She still wants to move out and live independently but says she will visit her dad and help with some tasks like shopping.

Part 2

Jessie tells the social worker that she is pregnant. The father is Simon, a man she met at the café. Simon is 25 and lives at home with his parents. Simon has had some previous involvement with the police for being drunk and disorderly, credit card fraud, and burglary. He is trying to get a job but Jessie says he can also be violent.

The Children’s social worker receives a referral from the Police that Simon was arrested for being drunk and threatening Jessie at her house where she lives with her parents. Jessie is now 8 months pregnant. The Social Worker arranges an Initial Child Protection Conference (ICPC) for the unborn baby. Jessie hasn’t been attending her ante-natal appointments as she can’t afford the bus fare.

At the Conference, they hear that Simon is very sorry for his behaviour, and Jessie and Simon say they still want to be together. Police say that he has not been charged this time but has been given a caution. Maisy has found a house to privately rent for Jessie and Simon and that they can move in next week. The social worker for Jessie shares information about Jessie’s learning disability and says that they are worried about her parenting skills but that with support she and Simon should be able to manage but that any information given will need to be in an accessible format. Both grandparents say that they will help them care for the baby.

The meeting decides that the baby should be placed on a Child in Need plan when it is born. The birth goes well and baby Chantel goes home to the new house with Jessie and Simon. They don’t have very much furniture, but the house is mostly clean. When the baby is 2 months old, Chantel’s social worker receives a referral from the health visitor that the baby has an unexplained mark on her head and that she is not putting on weight. Jessie has told them that Simon dropped Chantel when he was changing her. The hospital is not happy to send the baby home and wants to keep her in for observations until she has put on weight. Simon is not at the hospital with them and Jessie says that he is staying with his parents. They aren’t getting on and he keeps shouting at her. Jessie says she would like to stay at the hospital and look after Chantel.