Also there must be standard procedures for dealing with incidents or allegation of abuse against members of staff and volunteers. 5. To have an agreement about working with other organisation like the social services ,CQC, and other multi-disciplinary teams ,etc 6. To ensure that all staff has training that helps them to understand and cope with working with children. And finally to check that there are no known reasons or information available that would prevent staff and volunteers from working with children and these are done with regular DBS check.
health and safety, fire drills and missing children. Keeping up to date with training in safeguarding issues encouraging learning and development of children and young people assessing observations to identify additional support needs a child or young person will need [CAF] which is a common assessment framework, this system enables multi agencies to access and add information about children. 1.4 All agencies dealing with children and young people up to the age of eighteen must seek to promote their welfare. The child / young person is the centre of everything
The wrong person could receive the information and put the adult and child’s safety at risk. • Every matter relating to safe guarding is confidential. • The staffs at the work settings need to know that they have professional responsibility to share information with other agencies in order to safe guard children. • The head of the centre or the designated member of staff will disclose any information about child to other member of staff on a need to know basis only. • All the staff at the work setting aim to ensure that all the parents and carers can share their information with confidence that will be used to enhance the welfare of their children • Development records ( observation, planning ,photographs,….)
• assess any staff’s understanding of policies and procedures. • look at the arrangemenets for making sure unvetted people do not have unsupervised access to the children. National Minimum Standards for Childminding (Wales) Standard 18 – Child protection Parents have the confidence that the childminder takes all reasonable steps to protect children from harm. 18.1 The childminder draws up and implements a child protection policy which links into the arrangements of the Local Safeguarding Children Board and ensures that any adults working and looking after children are able to put the policy into practice. 18.2 The childminder is aware of the appropriate Local Safeguarding Children Board guidance or procedures on child protection, and knows whom to contact if concerned about a child.
All agencies and workers involved in providing services to children have an obligation under Section 11 Children Act 2004 to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) is a mutli-agency body working within each local authority, the LSCB have a duty to produce safeguarding procedures. The LSCB will contact all other relevant professionals once a concern involving a child is raised to set up a case conference. As a childminder, you may be asked to provide information or a report regarding a child. You must ensure that any information you give is accurate, factual and can be backed up with evidence (for example copies of observations around the child, accident/incident forms).
1.1 Identify the Current Legislation, Guidelines, Policies and Procedures for Safeguarding the Welfare of Children and Young People, including E-safety. Safeguarding is defined in Working together to safeguard children 2013 as: * protecting children from maltreatment * preventing impairment of children’s health and development * ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care and * taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes All staff within a school environment are responsible for the welfare of children, and to ensure that they are kept safe from harm. It is the right of every child to have a safe and secure environment to learn in and to develop essential skills for adulthood. High profile cases such as Victoria Climbie in 2000, Baby P in 2007 and Daniel Pelka in 2012 proved the need to continually review, revise and amend legislation. There is no single piece of legalisation that covers safeguarding in the UK, below are some legislation and guidelines laid down by the government to ensure schools can, and do safeguard children effectively, and to ensure correct procedures and processes are followed.
Including time, date, name of child making disclosure, name of person the concern was reported to and the exact words used during the disclosure. I need to remember that my duty is not to investigate or question any concerns of a child or young person but to fallow my setting policy and procedures. If a child makes a disclosure (tells me) that they are being harmed or abused, I must record as accurately as possible what the child has said, where and when the disclosure was made and the matter must be reported in the first instance to Children’s Social Care, Early Years Service and Ofsted as a matter of urgency. It is important that I do not ask the child questions or probe for information as this could contaminate evidence and hinder any further
CHILDCARE LEGISLATIONS 1 Children’s Act 1989 The children’s act 1989 safeguards your rights to receive assessments if needed to ensure a child has a reasonable standard of health and development and also an assessment would take into consideration health social care and educational needs. The act was a definite shake up of children’s rights and protection for everyone to work together who works with children for the safety and safeguarding against any form of abuse and to take action if a child is at risk also the act stated that a child would be consulted and would have a say before final decisions were made. In my setting I work with the parents and schools and if there is any problems we work things out together as a team .The children in my setting are never
What is safeguarding? According to Working together to safeguard children (HM Government 2013), safeguarding is referred to as “the action we take to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm - is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and families has a role to play.” (1) Which means that everybody who comes into contact with children whether it be in a professional capacity for example a teacher, a doctor, or a police officer who are legally obligated to care for vulnerable citizens, or in an everyday encounter for example a neighbour or family member is responsible for the protection of children from harm and reporting concerns to the appropriate body. How do we safeguard young people?
Analysis of how national and local guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding affect day to day with children and young people You must ensure that you are aware of the local and national guideline for safeguarding within your work with children on a day to day basis, many issues occur within a school in spite of this you should always be aware of any safeguarding issues and act accordingly within the correct guidelines. The day to day work entails • Childcare practice • Child