D1: Explain how Legislation can support strategies to establish and maintain Healthy, Safe and Secure environments in Early Years settings The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HASAWA) ensures that all practitioners within an Early years setting follow particular guidelines and rules in order to ensure that both children and the adults within the setting are provided with a Healthy, Safe and Secure environment. As stated by Tassoni et al (2007) “everyone within a children’s setting, including student learners, has a responsibility for the health and safety of anyone who is there”. HASAWA is able to support early year’s settings to maintain a Healthy, Safe and Secure environment through ensuring that practitioners carry out Risk Assessments. As stated by Beaver et al (2008) “Practitioners must always be aware of potential hazards/possible dangers and take action to stop this from happening”. Because of this, it is essential that early years settings carry out Risk assessments on all new/existing activities, risk assessments indoors and outdoors, and also complete a Risk assessment if practitioners are planning to take children on an outing.
Unit 10.1.1 Know the policies and procedures of the setting for promoting positive behaviour Describe the policies and procedures relevant for promoting positive behaviour in children and young people Unit 10.1.1 St Mary’s Church of England Primary Academy has adopted the following policies to assist in promoting positive behaviour in all children within its setting. These policies are summarised below. Behaviour Policy * All children have the right to work and play in an environment where they feel safe, valued and can thrive. * Bullying is unacceptable and must be firmly prevented. * Teachers have the right to carry out all aspects of their work without regularly being disturbed by poor behaviour (beyond that which it is reasonable to expect from young children) or subjected to verbal or physical abuse.
1.1 Please give an outline of your health and safety policy and how you follow this in the workplace. * To insure that all staff are trained and follow the health and safety policy. * To prevent accidents, injuries and ill-health by identify and eliminate hazardous. * To report health and safety concerns to the right people. * To provide a safe and healthy environment for our children to grow, learn and play.
The EYFS supports safeguarding by making sure that children are in a safe environment and that they are being watched closely to check for any concerns that they may have about the child, and by making sure the child is on the correct stage of learning for the age they are at. E safety is there to help control what is seen and to try and stop the problems that may occur as a child is getting older. Be aware of the Byron review | 1.2 Describe the roles of different agencies involved in safeguarding the welfare of children and young people ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- The different agencies would be a multi agencies, the roles of different agencies are used when more than one practitioner is involved, different agencies can be health visitors, child health clinic, gp, hospital, childminder, nursery school, after school club, social
We are achieving the principles and areas of learning in accordance with the eyfs 1.2 Analyse how integrated working practises and multi-agency working in partnership deliver better outcomes for children and young people * The professional partnerships between the outside agencies and us are paramount to the child’s growth and development. * An example of this is that if there is a child under social services, I would communicate with health visitors, doctors, and anyone who comes into contact with the child or parents. * It is vital that all parties communicate with each other to ensure child’s safety at all times. 1.3 Describe the functions of external agencies with whom your work setting or service interacts. * My setting interacts with multiple agencies, these
Range Proof of observation – Recording time Evidenced Discuss the security arrangements when children arrive at the setting. (1.2) All the children from Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 wait on the Infant playground with their parent/main carer until the bell goes at 8.55am. It is usually the Head Teacher that rings the bell or, in her absence, the Deputy Head Teacher. The children are then escorted to the main door of their classroom by their parent/main carer where they are greeted by a member of staff, usually their class teacher. The children have daily routines of hanging up their coats and putting their book bags and lunch boxes away.
I make sure I go by all these in my work role so I know I’m safeguarding the children to the best of my ability. Observing and assessing children’s development is essential so you are alert to anything that is not expected of that child at their development, we should also keep parents/careers up to date. Duty of care contributes to the safeguarding contributes to the safeguarding or protection of individuals by protecting them from any harm weather it’s physical or psychological. IN our nursery we safeguard children by * Setting clear boundaries for children’s behaviour and using strategies to discourage behaviour which could harm others. We do this according to their developmental stage.
1. Why is it important to safeguard children and young people? Legislation, guidelines and policies place a duty on all those working in schools to ensure the health, safety and security of children in their care.The importance of safeguarding children and young people is also significant in enabling them to develop and reach their full potential. Failure to safeguard children and young people can have a negative impact on a child’s development and health. Children and young people need to be protected from neglect and abuse and have a safe environment in which to grow up in with parents, teachers and any other close adult being approachable and accessible if needed, should a child develop a difficulty that concerns them.
One of the main responsibilities as a learning support practitioner is to help those pupils with whom we work with accomplish this. When we are planning and preparing the learning environment we must always take into account the safety, hygiene, comfort and security of those pupils who will be using it. Environment has immediate effect on the quality of the children’s learning and development therefore it should be comfortable, interesting, attractive and appropriate for child or children who use it. There are a number of important factors to be considered while planning for safe indoor and outdoor environment but the most important ‘Every Child Matters’ i.e. everyone is an individual and may have particular needs.
In a childcare setting there are many policies and procedures put in place to safeguard children from danger and harm. The child protection policy was put in place to ensure each child is observed closely and no child is suffering from significant harm within their home environment. The setting work with parents to ensure the safety of children is considered. The health and safety policy was put in place to ensure the setting is a safe environment for children to be in. All equipment must be set out for the correct age ranges, all equipment regularly cleaned, ensure there are no broken toys etc.