Principles for Implementing Duty of Care in Health Social Care or Childrens and Young Peoples Settings
|Assignment 055 Principles for Implementing Duty of Care in Health, Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s Settings | |
| |Task A |
|1 |What does duty of care mean in children and young people settings? |
| |Duty of care can be defined as "an obligation, recognised by law, to avoid conduct fraught with unreasonable risk of danger |
| |to others". Early years settings owe a duty of care to take reasonable care to ensure that their acts or omissions do not |
| |cause reasonably foreseeable injury to the children in their care. |
| |Section 40 of the Child care Act 2006 ensures Early Years settings implement the Legislative Framework of the Early Years |
| |foundation Stage. It is this that imposes a duty of care on the Early Years settings but there is also statutory guidance in|
| |Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010. In addition there is a raft of Health and Safety legislation. |
| |The law imposes a duty of care on everyone: people must take reasonable care to avoid injury to others or damage to property|
| |through their action or lack of action. Everyone who works in any form of child care, whatever their role or function, has a|
| |basic obligation to take all reasonable measures to safeguard children. This means keeping them safe from potential physical|
| |dangers, environmental dangers, as well as from any person who would wish to harm or abuse the children in any way. Abuse |
| |includes physical, sexual or emotional abuse, harassment because of race, gender or belief, or any kind of bullying. Duty of|
| |care also means ensuring a person's rights are protected, including their right to be independent, and to preserve their
| |Task A |
|1 |What does duty of care mean in children and young people settings? |
| |Duty of care can be defined as "an obligation, recognised by law, to avoid conduct fraught with unreasonable risk of danger |
| |to others". Early years settings owe a duty of care to take reasonable care to ensure that their acts or omissions do not |
| |cause reasonably foreseeable injury to the children in their care. |
| |Section 40 of the Child care Act 2006 ensures Early Years settings implement the Legislative Framework of the Early Years |
| |foundation Stage. It is this that imposes a duty of care on the Early Years settings but there is also statutory guidance in|
| |Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010. In addition there is a raft of Health and Safety legislation. |
| |The law imposes a duty of care on everyone: people must take reasonable care to avoid injury to others or damage to property|
| |through their action or lack of action. Everyone who works in any form of child care, whatever their role or function, has a|
| |basic obligation to take all reasonable measures to safeguard children. This means keeping them safe from potential physical|
| |dangers, environmental dangers, as well as from any person who would wish to harm or abuse the children in any way. Abuse |
| |includes physical, sexual or emotional abuse, harassment because of race, gender or belief, or any kind of bullying. Duty of|
| |care also means ensuring a person's rights are protected, including their right to be independent, and to preserve their