The intention of this assignment is to explore the roles and responsibilities of professional agencies working with children and their families. In this assignment police, health care, and teaching services will be looked at. In addition to this, this assignment will look at possible dilemmas faced by professional services that work with children and families, and how the Every Child Matters agenda has influenced service provision today. Every Child Matters is defined as; a policy strategy which is a shared programme of change
When working in a child care setting, practitioners sometimes obtain or come across a lot of information about the children and their families. They may hear about personal and sensitive information such as divorces, affairs, illnesses, money problems and these need to be handled very carefully. Balancing children’s rights to privacy with the need to work positively with their parents and carers, can be a difficult task for staff and volunteers working in the setting. Every setting should therefore have policies and procedures about information sharing and staff should be made aware of them. These should include policies relating to multi-agency working, managing transition from one setting to another as well as ensuring continuity of care
2.2 The importance of the children and young persons centred approach is to try and stop abused children and young people falling through the cracks, this has happened in the past when people have been to different hospitals or moved house. The theory is if all the organisations that are involved in children's and young peoples lives work together abuse will be discovered quicker and support put in place hopefully stop the abuse or neglect and improve lives. 2.3 In the context of safeguarding partnership working means all agencies and professionals working together to protect the rights of children. It would bring all kinds of expertise from the nursery workers to social workers, physiotherapists, police, health visitors, GP'S, and many more. We are all responsible for safeguarding children and it is very important that we work together and communicate regularly.
Multi agency working brings together practitioners from different sectors to provide an integrated way of working to support children, young people and families and ensure that children who need additional support get the right professionals they need to support them. Multi agency working may include people form professional backgrounds such as social workers, health , education, early years, youth work, police and youth justice. Because children, young people and family’s needs can be very different, the composition of a multi-agency team will differ from case to case. It is important each practitioner brings with them their own specialist skills, so that the child, young person and family gets the best support possible. An integrated working are service hubs for the community bringing together a range of services, usually under one roof, whose practitioners then work in a multi-agency way to deliver integrated support to children.
Supporting positive outcomes for children and young people Learner: Rebecca Bartram Tutor: Sheila Mitha Introduction In this report I will be discussing the ways in which social, economic and cultural environment can impact the outcomes and life chances of children and young people. As a childcare practitioner you will need to be aware about many issues within our wider society that will affect the lives of the young children that you are working with. Some children may have parents, who are unemployed and find it difficult to pay bills and buy new clothes for their children, some children on the other hand may suffer from a condition that affects their health or even have a cultural background that excludes them from certain activities in the setting. As a practitioner part of your role is to be aware of the issues that can have either a positive or negative impact on a child’s life. By
They are in charge of empowering the staff members with a vision which will bring positive changes to the health care organization through inside side and outside interaction. Role of leadership in an organization Health care organization leaders demonstrate appropriate styles and behaviors that best suits the complex and constantly changing system of health care. Such changes include change of technology into more sophisticated ones, nursing shortage, time and cost constrained work environment, challenge of achieving the desired patient outcomes and increased patients patient acuity (Mathena, 2002, p 136-142.). The role of leaders is to impalement strategies related to achieving the goal of the health care system even with the limited resources. The roles of leaders in a health care organization motivate staff members to go beyond self interest for the general
Practice nurses are hugely involved in health promotion and preventative work which is suggested by Williams and Sibbald (1999) to have caused some anxiety among health visitors as to their professional identity. According to the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) (DOH 2009) one of the lead roles for the health visitor is to ensure that the different professionals contributing within the HCP communicate effectively and provide co-ordinated and holistic care tailored to the needs of the family. This
Skills and Characteristics of Human Services Workers “Human services has developed in response to the need of individuals, groups, or communities for assistance to live better lives” (Woodside & McClam, 2011, p. 5). The delivery of human services is an interdisciplinary endeavor and takes a special person with knowledge of individuals, one who understands society and the relationships formed by individuals and the culture within the families. Human service workers must be able to empower a client but to do so he or she must exude confidence by using learned skills, education, and those characteristics ingrained during childhood. Because human services is not simple but complex and encompasses a wide range of services to include family, child, and youth services, public, and mental health services, crisis intervention, corrections, and education, human services workers must possess a number of interpersonal skills. Skills of a Human Services Worker “As any system gets larger, workers need additional skills and knowledge to understand and effectively use the resources available” thus, “the need for additional knowledge and skills has emerged” (Burger, 2010, p. 222).
Social service professionals work in diverse settings in order to reach the varied populations that need assistance. Human service professionals also advocate for changes in laws and policies that enable marginalization in society (Martin, 2011). According to Martin (2011), the main goal in the human services field is to “support individuals as well as communities function at their maximum potential, overcoming personal and social barriers as effectively as possible in the major domains of living” (p. 6). The way that clients are helped depends on the setting in which they are found. Social work in a school setting is very different from social work in a hospice.
UNISON duty of care handbook For members working in health and social care ‘‘ At a time of change, patients and service users depend more than ever on the integrity of care professionals. This handbook is a valuable guide to health and care professionals’ responsibilities and rights, and to sources of help when it may be hard to know the right thing to do and even harder to do it. Harry Cayton, chief executive, Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence Professor Dickon Weir-Hughes, chief executive and registrar, Nursing and Midwifery Council ‘‘ Marc Seale, chief executive and registrar, Health Professions Council ‘‘ The Health Professions Council (HPC) is committed to protecting the public and ensuring that professionals