Explain How To Support Children And Young People's Health And Safety
Support children and young people's health and safety.
Criteria 1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4/3.1/3.2
There are a number of factors to take into account when planning healthy and safe indoor environments and services. The first thing you need to consider is the age needs and ability’s of the children. For example there will be different risks to a toddler with hearing difficulty then the risk to a toddler with out. That dose not mean they should not play with the same toys just how we asses and deal with the risk. This apply's to parents and carers to have wide doors or slopes to accommodate wheel chairs,brail ect. As I have explained in duty of care a child’s welfare and safety is paramount when planning, all children must get something …show more content…
This is done by maintaining by conducting regular risk assessments depending on your setting they may be laid out differently and you may have some more in depth ones for say equipment ect. any problems found on the risk assessment will be jotted down and given a urgency rating and given to your manager and theses should fix the problem our update policy. For example one setting we use has a pirate boat outside and it has no hand rail around the top, so a note was put on the side to say that children under two could not play on the ship, they also put wood chip around the ship to make it safer for children to play on. Polices and procedure have to be followed and studied as this encourages us to work safely, with in my setting we also have meeting every month or so so we can raise concerns or be told about updates on policy. other this that are crucial in updating polices and procedures are accident reports if when checked different children have accidents on the same equipment, we can remove or stop children using it till it can be fix or made safe. Proper vetting, regularly maintained registers, door security and making sure all health and safety information, COSH ect. Its important to know of current guidance of planning healthy and safe environment and services. These can …show more content…
These are implemented but having clear guild lines on have locked cupboards so we can keep any dangerous chemicals away from children’s reach, we have different chopping boards for meat fruit, veg ect. To prevent cross contamination. As well are gloves,aprons for nappies changing, again door security needs to be maintained with electronic locks and making sure some one is free to watch the door and fill in the register which Is needed if there is a fire, fire doors should be left unlocked and clear, procedures for visitors checking id's, getting them to sigh register. Staff ratio must be checked again the register comes in handy for this we can check the ages of the children and see how may we have so then we can make sure there are enough staff. Procedure on cleaning up spills and body fluids, should be acted on quickly as to prevent accidents and cross contamination. There should always be full copies of polices and procedures on the premisses in our case we have them in all our centres and we have access to them on the council website so we can be kept
Criteria 1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4/3.1/3.2
There are a number of factors to take into account when planning healthy and safe indoor environments and services. The first thing you need to consider is the age needs and ability’s of the children. For example there will be different risks to a toddler with hearing difficulty then the risk to a toddler with out. That dose not mean they should not play with the same toys just how we asses and deal with the risk. This apply's to parents and carers to have wide doors or slopes to accommodate wheel chairs,brail ect. As I have explained in duty of care a child’s welfare and safety is paramount when planning, all children must get something …show more content…
This is done by maintaining by conducting regular risk assessments depending on your setting they may be laid out differently and you may have some more in depth ones for say equipment ect. any problems found on the risk assessment will be jotted down and given a urgency rating and given to your manager and theses should fix the problem our update policy. For example one setting we use has a pirate boat outside and it has no hand rail around the top, so a note was put on the side to say that children under two could not play on the ship, they also put wood chip around the ship to make it safer for children to play on. Polices and procedure have to be followed and studied as this encourages us to work safely, with in my setting we also have meeting every month or so so we can raise concerns or be told about updates on policy. other this that are crucial in updating polices and procedures are accident reports if when checked different children have accidents on the same equipment, we can remove or stop children using it till it can be fix or made safe. Proper vetting, regularly maintained registers, door security and making sure all health and safety information, COSH ect. Its important to know of current guidance of planning healthy and safe environment and services. These can …show more content…
These are implemented but having clear guild lines on have locked cupboards so we can keep any dangerous chemicals away from children’s reach, we have different chopping boards for meat fruit, veg ect. To prevent cross contamination. As well are gloves,aprons for nappies changing, again door security needs to be maintained with electronic locks and making sure some one is free to watch the door and fill in the register which Is needed if there is a fire, fire doors should be left unlocked and clear, procedures for visitors checking id's, getting them to sigh register. Staff ratio must be checked again the register comes in handy for this we can check the ages of the children and see how may we have so then we can make sure there are enough staff. Procedure on cleaning up spills and body fluids, should be acted on quickly as to prevent accidents and cross contamination. There should always be full copies of polices and procedures on the premisses in our case we have them in all our centres and we have access to them on the council website so we can be kept