This led to the Children Act 2004. This Act aims to promote early intervention, improve and integrate children's services and bring together different professionals in multi-disciplinary teams to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people and their families. Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006 sets out how organisations, agencies and individuals working with children should work together to safeguard and promote their welfare. It has been updated to reflect developments in legislation, policy and practice relating to safeguarding children. It incorporates some of the recommendations made by Lord Laming in his report.
Unit 007 Safeguarding the Welfare of Children and Young People Identify the current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety the children act 1989 - simpifiying the laws that protect children and helps people working with children how they can work to help when child abuse is suspected. children act 2004 - responsible for creating local safegaurding childrens boards (LSCB) amoung other acts like common assesment framework to help agencies identify the needs of all children. the vetting and barring scheme - this ensures anyone who works or wants to work with children and young people must register with an independent safeguarding authority. 1.2 Describe the roles of different agencies involved in safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. the first role will be that of the person or setting reporting abuse or harm coming to a child or young person.
Unit 3 Understand how to safeguard the wellbeing of children and young people Outcome 1 1.1 Name the current legislations that safeguard children and briefly describe what guidelines and procedures are in place. * Children’s Act 1998/2004 * Education Act 2002 * E-Safety 2008 * Safeguarding – promote welfare of children * Human Rights Act * * * Different laws and guideline cover different parts of the UK. * * * | 1.2 Which children fall under child protection support and how can practitioners help protect children in their settings? Vulnerable people * Poverty, ill health and poor housing and emotional delay as well as development delay.Children with needs * Disabilities * | 1.3 Name one of the National and Local Guideline for safeguarding children SureStartNSPCCDepartment for Education: Responsibility for safeguarding and child protection in England.Local Authorities: Use guidance to produce procedures for services and practitioners. | 1.4 Who decides to conduct inquiries in to the death or serious injury involving a child takes place as a consequence of abuse or neglect?
Unit 025 – Understand how to safeguard the well-being of children & young people 025-Outcome 1 AC1- The Children’s Act brought out in 1989 aimed to protect children and young people; it gave guideline to those working with them of ways we can work together when there are allegations of child abuse. In 2004 a child died at the hands of her carers and it was then they revised the Children’s Act adding things like Local Safeguarding boards and giving the Schools and health care system more powers to get involved and protect children. Common assessment Framework (CAF) was part of the Every Child Matters green paper and it was put in place to provide an early intervention strategy before a Childs situation reaches crisis point. In my setting I use the EYFS as a framework to ensure I am meeting the needs of my children 0-5. Its very important the only suitable people work with children and vulnerable people so in 2009 they started running checks on people these checks were done by criminal records bureau and they checked people past to see if they had ever committed any offenses that my might make them a risk to children in the future, in 2013 the discloser and barring service took over the responsibility for these checks.
TDA 2.2 : Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people Task 1.1 Identify current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety • The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) • Children Act 1989, Children Act 2004 • The Education Act 2002 • Policies which safeguard (safeguarding and protecting, and procedures for reporting, e-safety, bullying, including cyber-bullying) • Working Together to Safeguard Children (2006) • What to do if you’re worried that a child is being abused (2006) (http://www.safenetwork.org.uk/training_and_awareness/pages/lscbs.aspx Task 1.2 Describe the role of different agencies involved in safeguarding the welfare of the children and young people. When looking or assessing the needs of individual children, there are agencies that work together in partnership to safeguard the child’s safety and welfare and there may be meetings between the child and family, health services, social services and the school. The bullet points below include agencies that work in partnership to safeguard children. The school is responsible for Following the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSC) procedures All staff attending child protection training Work with parents except if it is conflicting with the need to guarantee the child’s safety Report any concern or incident to senior colleague because confidentiality is essential and write or record a clear, accurate and truthful account of their observation on the same day Ensuring that if a referral is made to social services, that the head of the school most make sure that the report of the incident is sent to the social worker dealing with the case with in 48 hours Any child who is identified as ‘at risk’ or who has being placed in the Child Protection Register should
This legislation is also about working with parents and other professionals and keeping everyone safe. Childcare Act 2006 The three main key drivers of this act is to reduce child poverty, reduce inequalities between young children and to improve the wellbeing for young children. It supports parents to have the ability to work, and also focus on the provision of good quality childcare for the working parents. This act is based on the EYFS and uses it. Children’s Act 2004 The act and the Every Child Matters act is giving a messages that safeguarding children is a shared responsibility.
A policy relating to The Children’s Act 1989/2004 could be the Safeguarding linking to child protection. A policy brought in by the ‘Children’s Act 1989/ 2004’ was the ‘Working together to Safeguard Children (1999)’, this policy was brought in to help emphasis the responsibilities of staff towards any child at the risk of being put at risk. The Childcare Act 2006 ‘The Act will help transform childcare and Early Years services in England for generations to come’ - http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk The Childcare act of 2006 was brought in to allow children to have the best start to their childhood. This act also links to ‘Every Child Matters’ framework. Within a childcare setting a childcare
E4- Describe the benefits of developing reflective practice within the setting. E5 - Summarise the main principles that underpin work with children. E6- Explain the importance of valuing children’s interests and experience. E7- Collate information about ONE (1) recent initiative and ONE (1) piece of current research which relate to provision for children. D1- Explain the importance of reflective practice for improving your own performance.
* Analysing reports from an external social psychologists. * Working with CAHMS (child and adolescent mental health services) for on-going assessments and plans. * Through carrying out observations and assessments. * Through talking with the young person (and possibly the YPS family) and carrying out consultation reports. 1.3 Explain the importance of working with others to assess the needs of children and young people to inform planning It is important that children and young people have a variety of agencies or practitioners working alongside them, this will allow for the most appropriate skills to be
CYP Core 3.3 Understand how to safeguard the wellbeing of children and young people. Task1 1.1 Legislation, guidelines, Policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people within the UK; Children act 2004- the children’s act 2004, provides a legal base for nurseries to deal with any issues relating to the children. The children’s act 2004 has principles for the care and support of children which is also known as Every Child Matters. These principles are; ← To allow all children to be healthy ← Allowing children to be safe in their environments ← Helping children to enjoy life ← Assist children in their quest to succeed ← Help make a contribution- a positive contribution – to the lives of children ← Help achieve economic wellbeing The children’s act also includes the requirements for integrated services, such as health services, social services and schools working together. Working together to safeguard children 2006 - working together to safeguard children sets out how nurseries, parents and carers along with health care professionals, social services and other organisations can work together to help safeguard the welfare of children and young people.