Working together to safeguard children (including e-safety). This follows the Children Act of 2004 as it advises how agencies and services work together to help the children who are at risk. This legislation was renewed and updated in 2006. “This provides guidelines for professionals in England and Wales”. Confidentiality.
Unit 4222-345 Understand How to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Children and Young People. Outcome 1 Understand the main legislations, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people. 345.1.1 Outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK home nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people. Policies and procedures for safeguarding and child protection in England and Wales are a result of the Children Act 1989 and in Northern Island of the Children (Northern Island) Order 1995. The Children Act 2004 introduced further changes to the way the child protection system is structured and organised in England and Wales.
o Revised arrangements for sharing information. • Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006 – This document sets a framework that helps children’s agencies work together and alone to promote the welfare of the children. The Children in Northern Ireland organisations vision is to enhance the lives of all children in Northern Ireland by promoting the work of the children’s sector to maximise positive outcomes for children, young people and their families. They aim to be child focused in their work, ensuring that their activities are oriented towards achieving positive outcomes for children. • Every child matters is a green paper that was a result of the laming report (Victoria Climbie).
2. Agency name | Role of agency | 1. Shropshire Safeguarding Children’s Board (SSCB) | A representative group of agencies involved in Safeguarding Children and Child Protection | 2. Working Together to Safeguard Children 2013 | This agency covers the legislative requirements and expectations on individual services to safeguard and promote the welfare of children | 3. Social services | This agency aims to create more effective organisations, making communities stronger, and promote equality and opportunity.
There is one standard framework to measure their learning, care and development. In wales the early years also includes key stage one and includes children up to the age of 7. It encourages children to be more creative and imaginative to make learning more enjoyable and effective. In Scotland they follow a slightly different curriculum based on the curriculum for excellence document. It covers all children from three to eighteen.
The Child Health Promotion Programme A programme that enacts to provide a health service that will protect and promote the health of children. Local Safeguarding Children Board policies, procedures, protocols and guidance These are documents produced by Local Safeguarding Children Boards to support practitioners to get quick access to up-to-date procedures and guidance to use at all times when there is a concern that a child is at risk of harm. The Children’s plan 2007 Aims to strengthen support for all families during the early years of their children's lives, take the next steps in achieving world class schools, involve parents fully in their children's learning, and help to make sure young people have safe, interesting and exciting things to do outside of school. Every child matters A policy initiative launched in 2003 to transform children's services locally and nationally. Its main aims are for every child, whatever their circumstances or background, to get the support they need to be healthy and safe and be able to achieve economic
The three together, the Order, the Regulations and the Statutory Framework document make up the legal basis of the Early Years Foundation Stage. (www.education.gov.uk 19th October 2012) The EYFS has been implemented in September 2008, however has been reviewed in the last year and has been implemented since 1st September 2012. This framework is mandatory for all early years’ providers: maintained schools, non-maintained schools, independent schools, and all providers on the Early Years Register. The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets the standards that all early years’ providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. It promotes teaching and learning to ensure children’s ‘school readiness’ and gives children the broad range of knowledge and skills that provide the right foundation for good future progress through school and life.
These are guidelines set out to help children and young people achieve more. The children’s act 2004 is dedicated to improving the every child matters outcomes. The 2004 act brought in the integration of children’s services and the introduction of children’s directors responsible for local authority education and children’s social services. The establishment of local
In 2010 an updated version of ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ was released which supports this view and also supports the essential relationships between agencies. Working Together “sets out how organisations and individuals should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people in accordance with the Children Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004” (DCSF, 2009). According to the National College, “to address the five Every Child Matters outcomes for children’s health, safety, achievement, social contribution and economic well-being, professionals need to communicate in order to build successful working relationships”
Understand how to safeguard the well being of children and young people Unit 4 1.3 | Analyse how national and local guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding affect day to day work with children and young people | | The Children Act 2004 requires each Local Authority to establish a Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB). The LSCB is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how the relevant organisations in each area will co-operate to safeguard and promote the welfare of the children within the Authority, and for ensuring the effectiveness of what they do.In my area, the East Sussex LSCB has drawn up its own Sussex Child Protection and Safeguarding Procedures in compliance with Working Together to Safeguard Children (March 2010), to ensure that on a day to day basis: * All those working with children and young people know what to do if they are worried about a child's safety * When concerns are reported, action is taken quickly and sensitively to support the child and their family * Agencies working with children work effectively and follow legal guidelines.Under current legislation, schools are also required to have their own child protection or safeguarding policy and procedures covering the following areas:Childcare PracticeAll professionals working with children must be Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checked prior to employment and fully trained in safeguarding as a minimum every 3 years. They are also required to demonstrate the correct safeguarding procedures and follow the school’s policy when working with children, and in reporting any concerns. For example, before starting at Bede’s I was required to be DBS checked and to attend a Child Protection and Safeguarding Course with the school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL).Child ProtectionIt is the responsibility of all professionals working with children to be aware of