unit 516
Elizabeth McCrimmon
Unit 516 Understand safeguarding of children and young people.
Whilst my area of work is adults, there is an expectation that I have an awareness of safeguarding children. Through my work, I come into contact with children as relatives of the service users who live in our residential home and also as possible new service users for our respite unit, as part of transitions from children’s to adult services.
Our company recognises this and our policy ‘Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups’ fully endorses and signs up to Safeguarding Children, Local Safeguarding Children Board.
The policy states:
‘The majority of employees work solely with adults; however, there are a number of employees who will come into contact with children. It is important to read and follow Sefton Councils Safeguarding procedure to ensure the Company responsibilities as an Alerter are fully complied with.’
To ensure safe working with children and young people we ensure all employees are subjected to the required pre-employment checks, and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.
All employees working in direct contact with vulnerable groups will receive mandatory awareness training, with regular updates and employees in contact with vulnerable children will receive the appropriate level of training.
Working together to safeguard children (2015).
Statutory guidance on inter agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. This guidance details the legislative requirements and expectations of services to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, it also sets out a clear framework for Local Safeguarding Children Boards to monitor the effectiveness of services.
The guidance focuses on core legal requirements and aims to give professionals a clear understanding of what they need to do, to safeguard children. Sefton’s Local Safeguarding Children Board, became a statutory body in 2006.
The LSCB is vital in agreeing how the relevant
Unit 516 Understand safeguarding of children and young people.
Whilst my area of work is adults, there is an expectation that I have an awareness of safeguarding children. Through my work, I come into contact with children as relatives of the service users who live in our residential home and also as possible new service users for our respite unit, as part of transitions from children’s to adult services.
Our company recognises this and our policy ‘Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups’ fully endorses and signs up to Safeguarding Children, Local Safeguarding Children Board.
The policy states:
‘The majority of employees work solely with adults; however, there are a number of employees who will come into contact with children. It is important to read and follow Sefton Councils Safeguarding procedure to ensure the Company responsibilities as an Alerter are fully complied with.’
To ensure safe working with children and young people we ensure all employees are subjected to the required pre-employment checks, and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.
All employees working in direct contact with vulnerable groups will receive mandatory awareness training, with regular updates and employees in contact with vulnerable children will receive the appropriate level of training.
Working together to safeguard children (2015).
Statutory guidance on inter agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. This guidance details the legislative requirements and expectations of services to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, it also sets out a clear framework for Local Safeguarding Children Boards to monitor the effectiveness of services.
The guidance focuses on core legal requirements and aims to give professionals a clear understanding of what they need to do, to safeguard children. Sefton’s Local Safeguarding Children Board, became a statutory body in 2006.
The LSCB is vital in agreeing how the relevant