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Handling a possible case of child abuse in your setting will call for the utmost sensitivity. NSPCC education adviser Alison O'Brien offers professional guidance In the UK, one child a week dies from abuse. It is a shocking statistic. Child abuse arouses strong feelings in most people and it is important that early years practitioners take the time to think about what child abuse is - or isn't - and why it happens, as this will help them deal with a situation where a child in their care is being abused.