Do the “6” questions need to be addressed in the Safety Analysis Section of FACIS since there is very little space and not enough characters?
The six questions (the extent of maltreatment, the circumstances surrounding the maltreatment, child functioning, adult functioning, parent functioning, and disciplinary practices) are a guide for supervisors and workers to use when they sit down and have a discussion about “is the child safe or not.” A summary of why the child is safe or unsafe is what needs to be documented in the safety analysis section. When answering the question whether the child is safe or not, you need to take a look at how the safety threat is occurring in the family, if the child is vulnerable to that safety threat and if you have a parent that can and will protect. The safety threat section can be utilized to not only identify the safety threat but also talk about how it is occurring in the family. (the other 6 questions: frequency, duration, predictability, specified times, parent or family condition, influences to parent or family condition) The six questions (the extent of the maltreatment, the circumstan
