Its primary purpose was to give boundaries and help for local authorities and/or other entities to better regulate official intervention in the interests of children. The Act also made changes to laws that pertain to children, notably on foster homes, adoption agencies, babysitting services, and the handling of child-related crimes and crimes against children. Protection of children’s act (1999) - The Protection of Children Act 1999 creates a system for identifying persons considered to be unsuitable to work with children. This will be achieved by checks being made of criminal records with the National Criminal Records Bureau (CRB). “Child Care Organisations” - defined as those concerned with the provision of accommodation, social services or health care services to children or the supervision of children under 18 years - have a mandatory duty to check and report to the Bureau.
Through an extensive interviewing process of children and adolescents along with their parents Portes and Rivas sought to study how young immigrants are adapting to life in the United States. The glimpses that Portes and Rivas offer of these interviews greatly tie back to Derscheid’s argument on the influence of parenting practices regarding racial awareness, as well as to my interview with Sra. Ana. The researchers tie in their findings to two theoretical perspectives; the culturalist which observes the newcomer’s place in the cultural and linguistic life of the host society and the structuralist, which focuses on the newcomer’s place within the host’s socioeconomic hierarchy—both of which speak to the “need” of migrant populations to adapt. Furthermore, the scholars arrived to the conclusion that “racial stereotypes produce a positive self-identity for white and even Asians but a negative one for blacks and Latinos, alongside racialized self-perceptions among Mexican American students” (Portes & Rivas, 2011: 14).
Cillessen, A.H.N., and Mayeux, L. (2004). From Censure to Reinforcement: Developmental Changes in the Association Between Aggression and Social Status. Child Development, 75: 147-163. Crick, N.R., and Grotpeter, J.K. (1995). Relational Aggression, Gender, and Social-psychological Adjustment.
mTHCaroline Mauney English101-713 Charles Baker 22October2011 Foster Children Programs The foster care system in the United States addresses a precise set of cases--children who need temporary housing while their families sort out a difficult set of problems. Such children are likely to return to their families, but cannot do so until issues of employment, housing, and drug dependency are solved, which sometimes takes time. Many criticisms of foster care are based on practices that happened decades earlier (Jacobs).Today foster care is one useful tool in the arsenal of weapons available to social workers to assure that children are protected. Although In the United States this year, about half a million children
Social policy – Presentation and Written Report “Social Policy refers to the development of welfare, social administration and policies of the government used for social protection. Social policy is related to the governmental approach of development of social services towards formation of a welfare state.” (Alcock 2003). I and two other peers presented a power-point to our other students; this power-point outlined current news stories that focused on social policy. I and the other peers decided to focus on power-point on the safeguarding of children and we described what the problems are and what is being offered as a solution. Within this essay, I intend to give example of legislation, local and national governments and charities and voluntary organisations that work together to improve the lives of all members of society.
Unit 2.5 4.1 The main statues are: • The Convention on the rights of the Child (1989) • The Education Act (1981), (1993) and (1996) • The Children Act (1989) and (2004) • The Equality Act (2006) • The Care Standards (2000) • The Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001) • The Race Relations Act (1976) and amendment (2000) • The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) and (2005) • The Public Order Act • The Religious Hatred Act 4.2 All these laws influence the rights of individuals. Every early years, childcare and educational organisation needs to have policies and practices that put these laws into action: Codes of practice- Codes of practice provide guidance and rules on ways of implementing legislation and good behaviour. The purpose of the code should be to promote positive behaviour, so rules should be expressed in positive terms. The code should outline the schools expectations for pupil behaviour in the classroom and around the school. A system of rewards and sanctions should be used to support the code of conduct.
Current Legislation that Underpins the Safeguarding of Children and Young People. There is a lot of legislation relating to children and young people in the UK. Such as: Children’s Act 1948 Children and Young Person Act 1963 The Children’s Act 1989 Protection of Children Act 1999 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child The Human Rights Act 2000 Data Protection Act 1998 Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 Adoption and Children Act 2002 Education Act 2002 Sexual Offences Act 2003 Everychild Matters 2005 Children Act 2004 Equality Act 2010 (Amended 2012) Working Together to Safeguard Children 2013 These frameworks have changed over time as our understanding and thresholds for concern about children have changed. One thing that leads to legislation or at least a review of old is a Serious Care Review (SCR). Upon investigating SCR I have found from Working Together to Safeguard Children Guidance 2010 chapter that.
1.1 Identify legislation and policies that are designated to promote the human rights, inclusion, equal life chances and and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities. Care Standards Act 2000 The National Care Standards Commission arose from this act and they took over the responsibility for the registration and inspection of services from local authority departments. Services were inspected against a national standard with sanctions being imposed on those providers who did not meet the necessary criteria. The National Care Standards Commission was replaced in April 2004 by the Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection. Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000 Young disabled people aged 16 and 17 became eligible to receive direct payments to purchase their own care support.
"Child Soldiers." CQ Global Researcher 1 July 2008: 183-211. Web. 17 July 2013. The main argument of this article is to expose child welfare in Sierra Leone and other areas in Africa.
Assignment Three: Social Context of Child Development Jamie Breckenridge HHC0042: Child Development: An Introduction Dr. Shaku Brar April 2013 Assignment Three: Social Context of Child Development Researchers are continually attempting to sort out to what extent of human behavior is a result of nature (hereditary) or nurture (environmental influences). Cognitive development theorists and biological theorists believe in natural explorations of development where learning theorists believe more in the environmental influences. Cognitive theorists focus more on human mental process, and investigate into ways in which children perceive and mentally represent the world, how they develop using logic and problem solving methods. Cognitive developmental theory was developed by Jean Piaget (1896-1980) whom regarded children as natural physicists who consciously intend to learn about and take intellectual charge of the world around them. For example; Piaget believed that children, whom squish their food and laugh about it, are often growing scientists studying the texture of their food, and their caregiver’s reaction.