Assess The Importance Of Promoting A Responsibility When Working With Children

Working with a child is a privilege and a responsibility. It is a privilege because we have the opportunity to make a great difference in someone’s life, and a responsibility because we are entrusted with the task of promoting every aspect of the child’s development. All children are vulnerable. They have little power over their lives and few skills for protecting and caring for themselves. Caregivers who work with children have a special and important role—one in which they have the power to do great good or, in some unfortunate cases, great harm.
The particular status of children as human beings who need special protection and nurturing is recognised in documents such as the
African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of the Child