1. An outline of the current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people. Ans. There are many legislative acts that affect the safeguarding of children and young people. These are: • Children Act 1989 (England and Wales)/Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995: This act outlined the duties all who worked with children and they should coordinate in the event of allegations of child abuse. • Children Act 2004:
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Safeguarding is an umbrella term that involves everything we do in the setting to ensure children are kept safe and healthy. It means a whole range of policies and procedures. Child protection is one aspect of this and is how our setting ensures children are protected from abuse. The 2008 Statutory Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is underpinned by the positive outcomes of Every Child Matters and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) (UN‚1989) which
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Today we use the term safeguarding instead of child protection‚ it has a much broader range. Safeguarding a child or young person is ensuring that they have the opportunity to achieve their true potential and have the right to be protected from abuse (physical‚ emotional or sexual)‚ neglect or exploitation from anyone including professionals working with them. This is a much more holistic approach and is centred around the child’s needs‚ it is designed to prevent harm rather than just react once
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Legislation and Regulations Outline of legislation in relation to Unit and assessment criteria Children Act 1989 This Act allocates duties to ensure children are safeguarded and their welfare is promoted‚ with an emphasis on children being best looked after within their family. Schools have a greater duty of care‚ including ensuring there is no risk from the adult supervision within schools‚ one method to help ensure this is the data barring checks (DBS‚ formerly criminal records bureau‚ CRB). School
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national and local guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding affect day to day work with children and young people. National and local guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding that affect a practitioner’s day to day work relating to; Childcare practice The Education Act 2002 poses a duty on education authorities to promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people. This affects my day to day work as I must be aware of the child protection procedures at all times
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Unit 202. Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. Task A 1. There are many different legislations that can be related to children’s welfare‚ I will be talking about 6 main legislations. Children act 2006 was revised to include the Every Child Matters framework‚ there are 5 outcomes that the local authorities have to improve for all children and young adults up to the age of 20. The five outcomes are Be Healthy‚ Stay Safe‚ Enjoy and Achieve‚ Achieve Economic Wellbeing and Make
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Unit 516 Understand Safeguarding of children and young people (for those working in the adult sector) P5 The UK Government has defined the term ‘safeguarding children’ as: ‘The process of protecting children from abuse or neglect‚ preventing impairment of their health and development‚ and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care that enables children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.’ To be able to safeguard
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Unit 16 Understand Safeguarding of Children and Young People (for those Working in the Adult Sector) 1. Understand the policies‚ procedures and practises for safe working with children and young people 1.1 Explain the policies‚ procedures and practises for safe working with children and young people A policy is a statement of what an organisation will do to safeguard a child or young person to keep them safe. A procedure will describe the actions the organisation will take to put the actions
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1.All those working with children have a professional responsibility to safeguard and protect children. Child Protection is a highly emotive subject‚ evoking strong feelings in most people. In order to provide the most effective support and help for vulnerable children and their families‚ all staff managing services and involved in working directly with children need to be able to acknowledge their feelings and examine their different values and beliefs. Every child can be hurt‚ put at risk of
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assignment is based on child and young person development. It will cover: * The definitions of development and how each area is linked * The difference between the sequence of development and the rate of development * What influences a child’s development * What support and interventions a child can receive if they are not meeting their milestones * The expected pattern of child development from birth to 19 years * Transitions experience by children and how they affect behaviour
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