Child Care Unit 25

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Unit 025 (A) understand how to safeguard the wellbeing of children and young people. 1.1 outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people The current legislations and guidelines that apply are: * United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, * Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage 2008, * Children Act 1989, * Children Bill 2004, * Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006,and 2010 * Protection of Children Act 1999, * Police Act 1997 1.2 Explain child protection within the wider concept of safeguarding children and people Safeguarding is protecting vulnerable children and adults from neglecting, harm, abuse and practitioners to promote health and safety to protect all children and adults. Children and young people are more likely to achieve and reach their full potential if practitioners keep them safe. Practitioners have the responsibility to keep children and young people safe from accidents, bullying and unsafe environments such as traffic. It is vital for practitioners to promote the welfare of children and young people in a safe and healthy environment. For example, risk assessments should be carried out, understanding and managing new risk, undertake any threats to the safety of children and young people. Making sure that indoors and outdoors environment is clean, safe and hazard free. Workers should work with others and carry out multi-agency approaches i.e. common assessment frameworks for those who may have been identified as being in their development, to give them the best opportunity to enjoy childhood, achieve and reach their full potential. Effective communication should be taken into consideration to keep children safe from harm. 1.3 analyse how national and local
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