Breaking confidentiality can result in police involvement and court proceedings. Active support should be provided to the child; children need someone who can provide necessary support and are proactive in a practical way. A person should try their upmost to increase the child’s self confidence and raise their self esteem so that they are resilient and empowered. Children who know they are wanted and loved and who are used to making decisions are more likely to decline unwanted advances and therefore less likely to be drawn into exploitative situations. Children should be given the correct information according to their ages, needs and abilities.
Written Assignment 2 In this assignment the practitioner will be explaining how to support children's self-confidence and esteem, discuss some of the strategies used to help them protect themselves and make decisions about their safety. Additionally, the practitioner will analyse the importance of supporting resilience in children and explain ways of empowering children to enable them to make informed, positive choices that support their well being and safety. Assessment criteria 6.1, 6.3 It is vital children have self confidence and self esteem without these a child will not thrive and will find it difficult to succeed at school and in later life. Children need to be taught how to share, listen to others, take turns, how to deal with success and disappointment. Also they need to develop empathy.
Understand the legislation, regulations, and polices that underpin the protection of vulnerable adults. Analyze the differences between the concept of safe guarding and the concept of protection in relation to vulnerable adults? Following Lord Laming's report into the death of Victoria Climbié, the subsequent publication of Every Child Matters and the Children Act (2004), integrated working across services has become integral in ensuring that children and vulnerable adults are safe and protected. Safeguarding means proactively seeking to involve the whole community in keeping the individual safe and promoting their welfare. Safeguarding is an important part of integrated working.
Lauren Fowler Pin: 30199220 OP2.17 1.1. Describe why creative development is important to children’s learning. Creative development is important to children’s development and learning because it helps your child to use their mind and imagination to express their own ideas. Even playing with their friends is also helping your child to understand that all family’s and cultures can be different. It also helps your child to make connections in their thinking and the way in which problem are solved.
Natalie Ettrick CYP 3.4 – Support children and young people’s health and safety 1.1 There are a number of factors to think about when you are planning for a healthy and safe environment or an activity with children and young people. You must remember everyone is an individual and may have particular needs. If you have a clear understanding of the following then it will become second nature to include safety in your planning. • Every child is an individual – with different needs depending on their age and abilities. You must think about this when planning activities, for example when they involve physical play, or if more consideration must be given to the needs of a child who has just become mobile than to an older child, when planning room layouts.
Resilience studies popularly began with children affected by trauma and ascertaining what are the “protective factors” that play a role in their lives riddled with troubles and trauma, allowing them to have normal lives at the least, and successful careers at the most. Richardson defines resilience as "the process of coping with adversity, change or opportunity in a manner that result in the identification, fortification and enrichment of resilient qualities or protective factors." Research now shows that resilience is the result of individuals being able to interact with their environments and the processes that either promote well-being or protect them against the
Task 13.1 As a practitioner it’s your duty to observe and maintain correct procedures to ensure that the children are offered a stimulating environment which will further allow optimum possibilities for development. All those who work with or amongst children and young people have a crucial role to play in helping not only to shape aspects of their lives, but to also aid in enhancing their future development. Therefore it can be stated that how we set up our own working practices can affect children and young people’s development. The necessity of encouragement and expression to children of the importance of good physical and mental health through their diet, exercise and healthy. If we do not promote and encourage a healthy and balanced lifestyle, it could results in the children having poorly developed immune system which in turn would cause them to be ill and have days off school which would affect their development.
It is critical to link his theory to practice as it encourages/allows children to communicate with other children using their social skills which they have developed and allows children to build self-confidence. This theory shows us that the child’s social and emotional development/skills will increase as they learn from others when interacting. (Meggitt et al, 2012) As we use the theories above to plan activities/lessons we “Ensure that every child, young person, adult or learner is given equal of opportunity to access education and care by meeting their specific needs.” (Meggitt et al, 2012,
This level is likely to be found in children due to the fact that they normally have a greater need to feel safe. Through communication we are able to meet these needs as well. When there is a major threat to safety then warnings are sent out through media and
A child's language development can be affected by the home environment, but also by childcare facilities, the community and the social interactions that they have within these environments. Home Environment Safety and comfort are crucial to learning; therefore a safe and nurturing environment is conducive to language development. The home needs to be a place where the child can open up and grow. A balance of individual time, parent involvement and group activities with other children are also needed. Parents who get involved and play interactive games with their children see much better results.