Norfolk Adult Education C&G 5329- LEVEL 3 CERTIFICATE IN SUPPORTING TEACHING AND LEARNING Assignment 1. Unit 333 Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as *Protecting children from maltreatment. *Preventing impairment of children’s health or development. *Ensuring children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care. Child protection is a part of safeguarding and promoting welfare.
Unit 25 Understand how to safeguard the wellbeing of Children and Young People. Outcome 1 1. Outline current Legislation, Guideline, Policy, Procedure within own UK home nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people. Legislation, Guideline, Policy, Procedure. Brief Description.
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.
Local authorities are required to provide services that meet the needs of children who are identified as being at risk. The goal of the 2002 act was to improve the lives of all children who receive informal or professional care. It covers all services that children might use such as school, day care and children's homes. The Convention on the rights of the child (1989) This convention introduced rights for
1.1 Working with children and family takes places within a legal context, Section 11 of the children Act 2004 places a statutory duty on the key people and bodies to make arrangement to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. Though my project contains mainly adult with learning difficulties, all organisations that works with children and family share a common commitment to safeguard and promote their welfare and for many agencies that is underpinned by a statutory duty. It is very important that all organisation working to safeguard children understands their full responsibilities, accountability and duties as set out by the law Working Together to safeguard children sets out the guidelines on how organisation and individuals should work together to safeguard and promotes the welfare of children and young people. This policy states that all organisations that provide services or work with children and young people should: 1.Have senior managers that are committed to children and young people safeguard and promotes children, 2. Be clear about people’s responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare.
TDA 2.2 Safeguarding 1. Current Legislation to safeguard children: The UN convention on the rights of the child (1989) This act sets out the right and freedoms of all children in a set of 54 articles included in those rights are those which ensure that children are safe and looked after. Article 19 states children’s rights to be protected from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation including sexual abuse by those caring for them. Those countries, which signed up to the treaty, including the UK 1991, are legally bound to implement legislation, which supports each of the articles. Children’s Act 1989 This act identifies the responsibilities for parents and professionals to ensure the safety of children.
1.1 Research current legislation for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including E-safety All settings working with children and young people should establish and maintain a safe environment and deal with circumstances where there are welfare concerns. Through their protection policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people. Those settings which work with children and young people have an important role in the detection and prevention of abuse and neglect. There is key legislations put in place to safeguard children and young people. The table below explains what they are and how they protect children and young people.
TDA 2.2 Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. Task 1 All nurseries are committed to providing care an learning for all of the children and there are many different policies, procedures and guidelines that ensure this and these include:- • The Children Act 1989 - This act is a law which aims to protect children, and the purpose of it to highlight to parent and carers the responsibilities that you have when caring for a child. the act consists of two important sections and they are both based on child protection, the two sections are section 47 and section 17. • Children Act 2004 - This is the legal framework for Every Child Matters and this includes requirements for a number of things such as, an assessment of children's needs, information which is relevant for safety of children and support for those people are new to being a parent or a carer and need support with this. • The Education Act 2002 - This act give certain responsibilities to head teachers and the governing bodies in all schools and they talk about how schools can keep their children safe and free from harm.
CHILDCARE LEGISLATIONS 1 Children’s Act 1989 The children’s act 1989 safeguards your rights to receive assessments if needed to ensure a child has a reasonable standard of health and development and also an assessment would take into consideration health social care and educational needs. The act was a definite shake up of children’s rights and protection for everyone to work together who works with children for the safety and safeguarding against any form of abuse and to take action if a child is at risk also the act stated that a child would be consulted and would have a say before final decisions were made. In my setting I work with the parents and schools and if there is any problems we work things out together as a team .The children in my setting are never
1.1 Outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people The Children Act 1989. Local authorities, courts and parents, together with other agencies in the UK have duties to ensure children and young people are safeguarded and to promote their welfare. Any delays in the system when a child’s welfare is at risk will have a detrimental impact on their wellbeing. The child’s welfare is vital. It is important that children are listened to and their wishes are taken into account alongside physical and emotional needs, age, sex, background and circumstances.