Unit 007 Safeguarding the Welfare of Children and Young People Outcome 1.1 * The Education Act 2002 * Children Act 2004 (Every Child Matters) * Children Act 1989 * Working Together to safeguard children 2006 * What to do if you’re worried that a child is being abused 2006 * Policies which safeguard Outcome 1.2 All adults that work with children have the responsibility to safeguard the welfare of children. Within every setting there is named member of staff with particular responsibility’s for safeguarding children, also known as ‘The safeguarding officer’. All police forces have a ‘Child Abuse Investigation Unit (CAIU)’. Their role is to make the decision whether a crime has been committed and to begin criminal investigation if so. They will gather evidence from settings or other agencies.
Through this they will make new friends, relationships and be more confident. * Specialised care/Social care: the role of them is to ensure that the child is supported and that to assess their living or the youth if it’s causing them harm, they will be required to be rehoused or be taken under their care as they work under the child protection act. They would decide if the child needs to be in protection and what they will need to be doing to protect the child who’s being abused. The specialist or social care all work in a school and hospitals, they can be referred to people. The care system can be a really decent way of protecting children however if it’s done wrong they child may end up being left with the abuser which make the child continue to being abused until they end up being hurt or dead.
The Education Act (2002). This sets out the responsibilities of the Local Education Authorities governing bodies, head teachers and all those working in schools or childcare settings to ensure that children are safe and free from harm. Children Act (2004). This provides the legal framework for Every Child Matters. It includes the requirements for: services to work more closely, forming an integrated service, a common assessment of children’s needs, a shared database of information which is relevant to the safety and welfare of children and earlier support for parents who are experiencing problems.
* Outline why children and young people may need to be looked after away from their families (P1) * Looked after children There are a variety of different reasons as to why children may be looked after by people other than their own family, the reasons as to why the child (ren) may be look after may include family breakdown, bereavement, parental illness or an incapacity of some kind. They may also be looked after because of behavioural problems or the child’s own illness. A reason that a child may become looked after may be following the imposition of a care order. It’s the duty of every local authority to consider the welfare of every child, the Child Act (1989 and 2004) tries to make sure that children are supported and they are kept in a family home if it is possible. Alternatively, if a child has to live away from home for a certain reason and that he or she is looked after by a local authority, it would mean that the child is looked after.
The most dangerous cause of a child being removed from that situation for their own safety and well-being. 4) Children become looked after when their parents are unable to provide on-going care in either a temporary or permanent capacity. The number of looked after children and young people has
Partnership working and communication between agencies is identified as key in order to identify vulnerable children and to help keep them safe from harm and abuse. The All-Wales Child Protection Procedures were originally written in 2002, and substantially revised in 2008. The children Act 1989 -- was brought in to ensure that all people who work with children worked together and were clear about their responsibilities and knew how to act if allegations of child abuse were made. Parents and professionals must work to ensure the safety of the child. Local Authority has ‘a duty to investigate when there is a reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm.
Children Act 2004: Local authorities and services have a legal right to share information regarding the welfare of the child, underpinning the legal framework for the Every Child Matters outcomes. To ensure the safety and wellbeing of a child and young people, schools have a responsibility to produce a range of policies which statesthe responsibilities of the staff members, and the procedures which they have to follow. This will include: • Safeguarding and protecting, and procedures for reporting • E-safety • Bullying, including cyber-bullying Local authorities, including schools use the guidance from the Department for Education (DfE), to produce their own policies and procedures, which must be followed. Two of these guidances are: What to do if you're worried a child is being abused (2006): Actions and procedures which should be followed when reporting a case of abuse. Working Together to Safeguard Children: A guidance for organisations, and the duties they have to safeguard children and young people.
Hannah McCormack Unit 11 – Safe guarding children and young people Legislations and Guidelines That Affect the safeguarding of children and young People The Children Act - 2004:- Limits the use of defence of reasonable punishment to the point where it can't be used if a person causes bodily harm to a child. The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act :– 2006:- A single body is established to make decisions about who should be barred from working with child and maintaining a list of these people to keep children safe. Protection Of Freedoms Act:– 2012:- The Safeguarding Authority and the Criminal Records Bureau,(CRB), formed together to make the Disclosure and Barring Service,(DBS), who choose who should be barred from working with young children. Adoption and Children Act – 2002:- It amends the children act 1989 by expanding the definition of the word 'harm' to include witnessing domestic violence. Children & Family Act:- 2014 Encourages 'fostering for adoption' as well as allows young people to stay with foster family until they are 21, if both are happy to do so.
In the first training session you will learn about: * Background information on child abuse and neglect * The role Child Protective Services and professionals play in ensuring the safety, permanence, and well-being of our nations’ children * The learning objectives for this training program * Group Discussion The Role of Child Protective Services States give their local departments of social services the legal authority and responsibility to receive and respond to reports of child abuse and neglect. The local departments also provide appropriate services for children and families. Child Protective Services is just one program area within the Department of Social Services. It is the most common route through which children enter the child welfare system. The goal of Child Protective Services is to strengthen and support
Safe-guarding the welfare of children and young people. 1.1 Procedures and policies for safe-guarding and child protection in settings for young people and children in England and Wales are the result of parliament passing legislation. I have listed below some legislation that has been passed in England to protect and safe-guard our children and young people. The Children’s Act 1989 [England and Wales] This Act allocated duties to local authorities, parents, courts and other agencies in the United Kingdom, to ensure all children are safe-guarded and their welfare is promoted. The idea behind it is that children are best cared for within their own families.