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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Portfolio Evidence 10 Safeguarding Describe how legislation‚ policies and procedures regarding safeguarding impact on own role in the workplace As a youth worker I have the obligation in my role to know policies and procedures that are in place for safeguarding. Taking into consideration the five outcomes identified by Every Child Matters 1. Protection from harm and neglect (to stay safe) 2. Physical and mental health and emotional well-being (to be healthy) 3. Education training
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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 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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a. Explain the importance of safeguarding children and young people It is important to safeguard children and young people as without this protection their future could be negatively affected. Their health and development could be impaired as its possible they could withdraw from family and peers which would affect them emotionally and also developmentally fall behind with educational milestones (if school is missed). Children and young people need to be protected from neglect and abuse and
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2.1 describe with examples the kinds of influences that affect children and young people. Different kinds of influences within each area Example of how the influence could affect children and young people Background Parent and child stable relationship‚ love‚ affection‚ family values‚ quality time It could affect their future relationships with partners and also their own children but if they do receive its showing them how a parent / child relationships should and can be because
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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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