It is important to know how to respond if this happens. • Report your concerns to the designated person or manager. Ensure you write down what has been said or observed and keep the information secure. • Children rarely lie about abuse, so take the child or young person story seriously. • Assure the child or young person that they are not to blame for what has happened.
Bullying of any sort stops members of the setting from being able to achieve their full potential and prevents equality of opportunity. Bullying is anti-social behaviour and affects everyone it is unacceptable and should not be tolerated which is why anti-bullying policies and procedures are in place, to protect all. The following steps should be taken when dealing with incidents: * If bullying is suspected or reported, the incident will be dealt with initially by the child’s keyworker or adult on duty. The incident will be treated as an urgent priority. * A clear account of the incident will be recorded and given to the line manager.
It is vital that help is sent for immediately. This should always be the school’s qualified first aider. Every school should have at least one qualified first aider on site at all times, and you should know their name and how to contact them in the event of an emergency. You will also need to support and reassure not only the casualty but also any other children who may be present. Children quickly become distressed, and depending on what they have witnessed, may be in shock themselves.
http://www2.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/images/vulnerable_260.jpg Evidence of abuse is important to be preserved; ways of this may be; Make an accurate written record of any conversations that are relevant between you and the individual; these needs to be signed with the date and time written clearly and kept in a safe place. Always keep a copy for yourself. Try not to clear or tidy anything up – you could potentially be tampering with a crime scene. Don’t wash bedding or clothes. Where to get help?
Duty of care means to so far as reasonable possible look after a child young person and protect them from harm under obligation of the law. In our holiday camp, we make sure that every child is safe and that any accidents or incidents that occur are reported, documented and checked through and signed by management and the parent or gaurdian of the child. We sit children down who we can see need guidance and help them to recognise the right choices, and the concequences of making the wrong ones. We never take sides and make sure that every child is listened to and supported in which ever way we can. 1.2 Explain how duty of care contributes to the safeguarding of individuals.
2. Restrictive interventions such as door holds can only be used as a last resort when all other interventions such as de-escalation techniques have failed. Restrictive interventions are used to protect a service user or other persons from harm. Dignity must be upheld at all times during any restrictive intervention. 3.
33.2 explain the importance of reassuring children, young people and adults of the confidentiality of shared information and the limits of this. It is important to reassure children, young people and adults that any information about them is kept confidential and only used where and when necessary and only for the duration required in order to maintain their trust and security. Their right to privacy means that this information has got to be kept confidential and ensured it is not passed on for others to then talk about or even gossip. As a member of teaching staff you need to make sure that you do not violate their trust or put them in risk of harm by divulging personal information. Children and young people need to know that their information will be kept safe and that they won’t be in risk of teasing or bullying by other pupils.
Add to your folder the following: 4.2 a description of the actions to take if a child or young person alleges harm or abuse in line with policies and procedures of own setting 4.3 an explanation of the rights those children, young people and their carers have in situations where harm or abuse is suspected or alleged. Every effort should be made to ensure that confidentiality is maintained for all concerned for example information should be handled correctly. It is extremely important that allegations or concerns are not discussed, as a breach of confidentiality could be damaging to the child, young person their family and any protection investigations that may follow. The actions to take if a child or young person alleges harm or abuse are: -We have to listen very carefully to a child who makes a disclosure and allow them to say what they need to say -Try not to display shock or disbelief and do not ask direct or leading questions but just accept what is being said. We do not question a child for more information that could influence the outcome of alleged abuse -We have to reassure them that they have done the right thing by telling us and that it’s not their fault -We can praise the child or young person for being brave and telling us about their difficulty -We always have to remember that our duty is not to investigate or question the child but to follow our settings policy and procedure -Never to promise to keep child’s allegation a secret -Make sure to do a written record of what is been said from the child making sure it includes time, date, name of child, name of person the concern was reported to and the exact words used during the disclosure -Finally report the record of disclosure to line-manager or Mentor A child has the right to be protected against significant harm(children’s act 1989, every child matters 2004,
Staff are expected to disclose any convictions, court orders, cautions, reprimands and warnings that may affect their suitability to work with children. Ofsted checks for the suitability of the setting overall. Anyone who has not been checked will not be allowed to have any unsupervised contact with children (eg taking them to the toilet alone). Information regarding DBS checking, identity checking, vetting, qualifications and any other relevant history should be recorded in the setting. Settings must also refer to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
CYPCore32-1.1 Explain the factors that need to be taken into account when assessing development. When assessing development, we need to take into consideration a few factors such as: * Confidentiality: We’d need consent from the parent to carry out an observation of a child/ young person. But we also need to be careful with the contents of the observations we make; we need to ensure any notes we’re taking, any recording or any register about the child is out of the reach of anyone who is not ourselves, the parent and someone who is involved with the child’s education and needs to have access to this. If we need to show our notes to someone duo to our own education process, someone like a tutor for example, then we need to protect the identity of the child by not using their names. In case there’s any safeguard issue, we should follow the safeguarding procedures which may involve breaching confidentiality but then again only if/ when necessary and only the people who need to have information will do so.