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.
Many people believe that if a child has Special Educational Needs he/she should be educated in a special school. However the Special Educational Needs Act 2001 was intended to consolidate the SEN child’s right to a mainstream education. “The Act has amended the Education Act 1996 and transformed the statutory framework for inclusion into a positive endorsement of inclusion” (DfES/0774/2001, page 1). With this revised act the views of parents are taken into account in each individual case, if they want their child to attend a mainstream school then everything possible should be done to provide it. Inclusion and SEN has an impact on every aspect of learning within schools, no
This article is aimed at young children who are doing hard labor work, government officials and worldwide organizations who are willing to help stop it all and get positive results in the end. Appeal to sense of justice is a persuasive technique, which is used in this article. It is located under the sub-heading A U.S Problem Too, Dorigny writes, ‘In 1983 a federal law was passed that set child-labor guidelines, limiting work hours for kids and requiring safe conditions.’ By using this persuasive technique it enables readers to play on the belief that we all have the right to be treated fairly and that the readers of this article should strive for just outcomes in the end. The writer also appeals to fear and insecurity of close to 1 million kids in the U.S work for farmers from sunup till sundown, who harvest and haul and work near dangerous machinery or in other hazardous conditions. This suggests that the children’s safety; security and freedom are very well at risk.
Family involvement is indeed necessary in the behaviour change process, lest we become victims of addictive behaviour. Schaumberg 1997, from the book false intimacy stated: “If all parents had to do was to manage their children’s external environment, the neighbourhood they live in, the schools they attend, the friends they choose, the quality of parenting they experience, - parenting would be relatively elementary. A solid understanding of child development, knowledge of effective parenting principles, and just plain common sense would go even further in making children’s lives go smoothly. But parenting involves far more than controlling a child’s environment! I would like to agree with Dr. Schaumberg that parenting involvement does not only mean controlling a child’s environment.
It places a duty on play settings to not treat disabled children less favourably than those that are not disabled. The Act requires providers to make reasonable adjustments so that disabled children and adults can access their services. The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 gave public authorities, such as local councils, hospitals, government departments, a duty to promote and reinforce equality for disabled people. The Act requires disability equality to be built into services at the beginning of the process. Protection of Children Act 1999 The
The Civil Right Movement brought about legislation in preventing prejudice towards people with disabilities allowing them the right to an education. Legislation made sure parents are well-informed of their rights concerning their child’s education and special instructions designed to meet their needs. The social implications of litigation on the lives of students with disabilities is giving students equality in education where teachers develop modification and accommodations to meet student’s academic and social goals. I would say thinking has changed dramatically regarding the understanding of students with disabilities. For, many people did not understand or had the true knowledge of disabilities and how to help students with disabilities.
This law was first implemented in October 1991. The Children Act 1989 was introduced in order to improve and simplify the existing laws affecting children; the act moved people away from ‘parental rights’ to the ‘right of the child’ but emphasized the co-operation and sharing of parental responsibilities. The key principles I have identified are ‘the child’s welfare shall be the court’s paramount’ s.1 (1), ‘parental responsibility for children’ s.1 (1) (2) (3), ‘that the child concerned is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm’ s.4 (31: 2a), and ‘Provisions of services for children in need, their families and others’ s.3 (17). The first key principle I am going to look at is ‘the child’s welfare shall be the courts paramount’. This is also known as the ‘Paramouncy Principal’.
They have the notion that it is used for protection against unwanted pregnancy, when there are many other benefits. In the book Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care, Dr. Spock states, “Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn about their sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less likely they feel compelled to find out for themselves” (2004).
This adds pressure to the teacher’s day as they then have to supervise them. The teacher has to ensure that they are being effectively used to enhance the learning of the student with diverse needs. Funding challenges for extra resources are another area that the teacher has to allow time for. Meeting these challenges leads to increased stress for teachers as “many mainstream teachers report that they do not have the time, training, experience; personal resources and/or access to professional development that they need to feel confident about teaching students with a disability in a mainstream class” (Shaddock., et.al, 2007). Research shows that a major concern for teachers is their lack of time for planning and the demands students with
Some parents remain unaware of the impacts of divorce among children aged zero to three years or infants (Levin, 2013). The parents normally attribute the lack of effects as a result of failure to understand matters yet the children at that age become affected equally. The effects occur on children of varying ages starting from infants to toddlers to pre-scholars and eventually on to adolescents. The significance of the effects is mostly evidenced through the change of children’s behavior, which varies with age. The paper therefore examines the overall effects of divorce among children of different age.