What does the term ‘mandatory reporter’ mean? 5. Why is it important to adopt an ‘interagency approach’? Task 1 Answers 1. Risk of significant harm means a child or young person who is at risk of suffering some kind of abuse Physical or mental and emotional harm damaging to a child’s wellbeing and development.
The main current legislation guidelines policies and procedures within UK home nation for safeguarding children and young people. Children’s order 2005 • Simplify laws that protected children and young people in respective UK countries. • Seen as a serious shake up to children rights and protection • Made it clear to everyone that worked with children what their duties were • Shows them how to work together when there is allegations of child abuse Children’s act 2004 • In 2003 it was clear services for children still weren’t working or communicating together this was flagged up because of the tragic death of Victoria Climbie • The organisation need to support and protect vulnerable children in the society • The lambing report resulted in a green paper called every child matters. • The integration of children’s service and the introduction of children’s directors with responsibility for local authority education and children’s social services. • Arrangements for sharing information has been reviewed and changed Vetting and barring The scheme was introduced in 2009 to stop unsuitable people working with vulnerable children and adults this scheme does the following: • a person who is barred from working with children or vulnerable adults will be breaking the law if they work or volunteer, or try to work or volunteer with those group.
This is one of the ways that eliminates the possibility of offenders working with the children and safeguards the children against abuse or potential abuse. Additionally, the management should put in place a whistle blowing procedure which will allow other members of staff to report such case if present. Management should also outline policies and procedures to be followed in cases where abuse is suspected. As earlier stated, Under the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992, sufficient training should be given to employees on processes involved with handling of children in the appropriate manner such that staff may handle children in appropriate
Describe the sorts of behaviour problems that should be referred to others and to whom these should be referred. There will be times when children might not show a positive behaviour. There could be many reason for any type of inappropriate behaviour shown. Sometimes children and young people are just testing the limits of their boundaries or sometimes there could be far more serious reasons behind it. However in a situation like this practitioners need to recognise that when the child needs to be referred to others.
Attachment theory by Bowlby (1969 as cited in Berk, 2010) and contributions by Ainsworth (1978, as cited in Berk, 2010) is crucial to early childhood development. This paper will aim to define what really constitutes adversity for children by giving a brief overview of environmental stressors which can cause childhood adversity, and provide links with how attachment theory informs us that, having insecure attachments in early childhood is what really constitutes as childhood adversity. Furthermore, this paper will also aim to give a brief, but informative explanation of attachment theory and conclude by showing how attachment theory has expanded our previous understandings of adversity. When defining what really constitutes adversity for children we might look towards early exposure of environmental stressors such as parental and child physical health and mental health issues, poor housing, low socioeconomic status, parental unemployment, inadequate diet, complications during pregnancy and birth, parental infant neglect and maltreatment which includes physical, psychological and sexual abuse (Carlson,1998; Masten, Best and Garmazey (1990); Stanfeld, Head, Bartley and Fonagy (2008); Berk 2010). However with the informative research of Bowlby (1969 as cited in Berk, 2010) and Ainsworth (1978, as cited in Berk, 2010) into attachment theory, we must look deeper and scratch the surface and examine how experiencing adversity affects the parent's capacity to give consistent quality care to children.
In the beginning of the 1900s, social agencies started to supervise foster parents. This was the beginning where children’s needs as individuals were considered when placements were made. Foster care is a system of institutions, group homes, and private homes for abandoned, maltreated, and orphaned children. Placement in foster care is a solution to the care problems of children whose parents are unwilling, unable, or judged by the legal system as unfit to care for them. Foster care is unfavorable to American society, because “according to national statistic 40 to 50 percent of those children will never complete high school.
EYMP 5 1.2 Explain how speech,language and communication skills support each of the following areas in childrens development:learning,emotional,behaviour,social Learning – Language is needed to understand concepts, participate in problem solving, and to develop ideas and opinions. Language enables a child to express their thoughts and feelings, and to think about abstract notions helping them to make sense of their world. •Emotional – Children need to be able to express themselves, if they have difficulty doing this it can have a damaging impact on their self esteem and identity. This can lead to a lack of confidence. Expressing their emotions and talking about them can help children to understand acceptable social behaviour.
INFORMATION SHEET Challenging Behaviour – Supporting Change Using a functional assessment to understand challenging behaviour and identify ways of supporting behaviour change Mark Addison, Counselling Psychologist, Community Learning Disability Team, Somerset Partnership NHS and Social Care Trust. When a child’s behaviour has been identified as challenging, it is essential that a rationale is first provided as to exactly why it is challenging. Indeed, a problem for one person is not always a problem for another person. Sometimes the question must be asked, “Whose problem is it?” This is not to suggest that a difference of opinion should be ignored. Indeed, the fact that one person believes a behaviour to be a bigger problem than someone else, may simply reflect a limited knowledge about child development, or unrealistic expectations about how the child should behave.
Using material from Item A and elsewhere assess the strengths and limitations of questionnaires for the study of parental attitudes to education. [20] Firstly, the item claims ‘sociologists are interested in what these attitudes are and how they affect achievement.’ For sociologists, particularly positivists, questionnaires have many strengths that warrant them a useful research method when studying parental attitudes. However, for interpretivists the limitations of this method make it fairly useless as complex issues like this one require deep and meaningful studies. This essay will assess these strengths and weaknesses to conclude the suitability of the use of questionnaires when studying parental attitudes to education. One of the major strengths of questionnaires is their practicality.
Theoretical positions such as social learning theory which lies heavily on behaviourist principles will be looked at, parenting styles where patterns of parenting will be discussed and inter-generational transmission which serves to perpetuate society’s inequalities and disadvantages with negative connotations for a child’s psychological development (Ding, S. & Littleton, K. 2005). “Disturbed” and “Disturbing Behaviour” will also be explored. The medical model and social model perspectives challenge the understanding in terms of attributing cause of problem behaviour to either the child or environment, discussion will take place around ecological adaptiveness (Brofenbrenner, 1979; Brofenbrenner and Morris, 1998) and how problems are defined through relationships between children, their social context and the beliefs and judgements of the assessing adults (Ding, S. & Littleton, K. 2005). The essay will conclude with a view of just how important sensitive