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Assessment - Essay

You are required to submit a written essay responding to the following:

Critically analyse the advantages and disadvantages of using risk assessment and risk management approaches when working with young people and families in ONE of three contexts - child protection, out-of-home care, or youth justice. In your answer to this question, you must:

• Define risk, risk factors, risk assessment and risk management

• Consider the advantages of risk assessment and risk management strategies when working withyoung people (in child protection, or out-of-home care, or youth justice).

• Consider the disadvantages of risk assessment and risk management strategies when workingwith young people (in child protection, or out-of-home care, or youth justice)

• Provide recommendations about how to use risk effectively and ethically in your chosen context - and in a way that promotes young people's immediate safety and longer term developmentand wellbeing.

• Best practice recommendations should be persuasive, logical and research based.

You must use APA 7 referencing. Your essay should include at least 12 (scholarly) journal articles read, in addition to any textbook references.