Book Review: “Is Voting for Young People?” (2E) by Martin Wattenberg Watternberg‚ Martin. Is Voting for Young People? With a Postscript on Citizen Engagement‚ 2nd edition. Harlow: Longman‚ 2007. In this concise work of political science‚ Professor Wattenberg of UC Irvine sketches the outline of a potentially serious problem facing modern democracies: the ever-declining political awareness and participation among youth. Wattenberg analyzes election surveys and public opinion polls in order to ascertain
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Understand how to safeguard the well being of children The definition of safeguarding is “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.”1 TASK 1 – legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies & procedures for safeguarding children Every element
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TDA 3.6: 2. Understand the Impact of Prejudice and Discrimination on Children and Young People Prejudice is a cultural attitude that rests on negative stereotypes about individuals or groups because of their cultural‚ religious‚ racial‚ or ethnic background. Discrimination is the active denial of desired goals from a category of persons. A category can be based on sex‚ ethnicity‚ nationality‚ religion‚ language‚ or class. More recently‚ disadvantaged groups now also include those based on
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Resilience of Children and Young People 1.1 explain the factors that influence the wellbeing of children and young people There are many factors that influence the wellbeing of children and young people. Some of these are evident in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. A child should have the ability to have secure and nurturing attachments that offer emotional warmth and security from a care giver. This will offer security and safety to the young person. As well as secure attachments‚ the young person will
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Psychological l problems such as timidness 2. Response to the situation in preparation of drawing a report The response will include investigating the factor that can lead to risk of harm to the child‚ including social isolation of the child with other children‚ and family on inadequate access to other family members. The risk may be caused by inadequate parenting skills‚ poor models of parenting or neglect. As a caregiver‚ i will observe and record observations that indicate a risk of harm and note all
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How does the Internet Affect Young People? There is a saying among the baby boomer generation‚ that if you want to learn how to use computers and the internet‚ go ask your grandchildren to teach you. An estimated 100% of all young people use computers with more than 90% regularly using the internet. Much of this internet use is tied to homework and websites needed to do research. However the internet is also the way most kids connect after school using social networks such as MySpace or Facebook
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TDA 2.2: Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people Know about the legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety. The concept of safeguarding‚ which works to protect children‚ has only been developed in the last 50 years. The need for improved legislation has been highlighted by high- profile cases‚ such as the death of Maria Colwell in 1973 and‚ more recently‚ Victoria Climbié in 2000. These cases shocked
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TDA 2.9: Support Children and Young people’s positive behaviour 1. Know the policies and procedures of the setting for promoting children and young people’s behaviour 1.1 Describe the policies and procedures of the setting relevant to promoting children and young people’s behaviour • Behaviour policy • Anti-bullying policy • Dealing with conflict and inappropriate behaviour • Rewards and sanctions Behaviour policy the behaviour policy is a guideline to staff on how pupils should behave. It is important
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Understand how to communicate with children‚ young people and adults 2.1‚ Explain the skills needed to communicate with children and young people. To be able to effectively communicate with children and young people you must first understand how to speak appropriately for the Childs age level‚ cognitive level or language ability. For example‚ while speaking to a child which has English as an Additional Language‚ you would need to speak slower‚ with lots more annunciation and facial expression.
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world. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)‚ Depression strikes about 17 million American adults each year--more than cancer‚ AIDS‚ or coronary heart disease. According to Dr. Tony Vendryes‚ A study of 80 Adults thay were between the ages of 20-45 were diagnosed with mild to modeerate depression‚ and researchers looked at exercise alone to treat the condition and found that those person’s who participated in the exercise 5 times a week for twelve weeks shwed a 30% reduction
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