Regulatory Bodies and Current Leglislations for Setting Up a Home Base Childcare Setting
Assignment Task 1
Regulatory bodies and current legislations
OFSTED
Ofsted is the office for standards in Education, children's services and skills.
They make sure that people achieve excellence in care of children and young people.
Ofsted assess children services in local areas and inspect services for looked after children , safeguarding and child protection. Ofsted's job is to check places that young people and children are looked after and the people who look after children and young people. They check to see if people are doing a good job in looking after children, if they are not they try to help them get better. Ofsted inspect children services e.g. childminders, nursery's etc. to see the standard of care for children, after there inspections they carry out a report of what they have found. All in all Ofsted's job is to make sure that all children and young people who are being cared for are safe, being looked after properly, to improve children's services, to make sure children's services focus on the interests of the children and young people, parents, adult learners and employers who use them and also to see that the services for children are efficient and effective.
Current legislations for home based childcare
Children's act 1989 – 2004
This act aims to improve effective local working to safeguard and promote children's well being. The act aims to ensure that welfare of children is paramount, working in partnership with parents to protect children from harm. The Act is intended to strengthen the child’s legal position; to give him/her equal rights, feelings and wishes, and to ensure children are consulted and kept informed. The Children Act aims to further improve children’s lives and gives the legal underpinning to ‘Every Child Matters: Change for Children. The act puts a duty on local authorities to make arrangements to promote co-operation between agencies and other appropriate bodies such as voluntary and community organisations in order
Regulatory bodies and current legislations
OFSTED
Ofsted is the office for standards in Education, children's services and skills.
They make sure that people achieve excellence in care of children and young people.
Ofsted assess children services in local areas and inspect services for looked after children , safeguarding and child protection. Ofsted's job is to check places that young people and children are looked after and the people who look after children and young people. They check to see if people are doing a good job in looking after children, if they are not they try to help them get better. Ofsted inspect children services e.g. childminders, nursery's etc. to see the standard of care for children, after there inspections they carry out a report of what they have found. All in all Ofsted's job is to make sure that all children and young people who are being cared for are safe, being looked after properly, to improve children's services, to make sure children's services focus on the interests of the children and young people, parents, adult learners and employers who use them and also to see that the services for children are efficient and effective.
Current legislations for home based childcare
Children's act 1989 – 2004
This act aims to improve effective local working to safeguard and promote children's well being. The act aims to ensure that welfare of children is paramount, working in partnership with parents to protect children from harm. The Act is intended to strengthen the child’s legal position; to give him/her equal rights, feelings and wishes, and to ensure children are consulted and kept informed. The Children Act aims to further improve children’s lives and gives the legal underpinning to ‘Every Child Matters: Change for Children. The act puts a duty on local authorities to make arrangements to promote co-operation between agencies and other appropriate bodies such as voluntary and community organisations in order