* Partnership: professionals and families must work together to ensure the welfare of the children. * Participation: that the childrens wishes and feelings should be taken into account so that they can contribute to any decisions which may affect them. * Protection: Children must be protected from serious harm. The local authorities have a duty to investigate any report that a child is suffering, or likely to suffer, from serious harm. * Provision: states that services that are necessary to safeguard children shouls be provided.
Be clear about people’s responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare. 3. Check that there are no known reasons or information available that would prevent staff and volunteers from working with the children. 4. Also there must be standard procedures for dealing with incidents or allegation of abuse against members of staff and volunteers.
Safeguarding Safeguarding is a term for the protection of people with a strong emphasis on prevention. when this refers to children many organisations could be involved within that process such as schools, social workers, GP and other medical or therapeutic services. All these may be needed to ensure the child's well-being and be a long-term help to the whole family. Safeguarding is important as it means all adults working with children have a responsibility to protect children from harm, we should always report our concerns so that the appropriate action can be taken and the right agencies involved to help resolve the issue raised. Dwelling on and ignoring our concerns only increases the risk to the child.
When relating to the policies that affect the safety and lives of children and young people, these normally focus on guidelines on keeping young people away from dangers and reaffirming their chance of having positive lives. Safeguarding The safeguarding policies put in place by the government define the act of safeguarding as protecting children from mistreatment, preventing impairment of a child’s health and development and taking action to enable children to have the best outcome possible given their circumstances. This benefits all children by given them the right through both government legislation and the morality of the issue. An example of this would be enforcing that all adults of a child or young person based institution, such as a school, are given a criminal record's check. This ensures that anyone working with children has never proven to have a crime that may directly danger a child.
1.1 Current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people We write our settings policies and procedures based on current legislation and guidelines. The Children Act 1989 was put in place to ensure that children are safeguarded and protected from harm and their welfare is paramount. It outlines the fact that children have their own rights and parents have responsibilities to their children instead of rights over them. It recognised that children have a right to be protected from harm, a right to be listened to and a right to live with parents if it is safe for them. The Protection of Children Act 1999 gave a definition to significant harm.
333 4.3 Explain the rights that children, young people and their careers have in situations where harm or abuse is suspected or alleged A child has the right to be protected against significant harm (children’s act 1989, every child matters 2004, United Nations Convention on the rights of the child etc). A child/young person has the right not to be subjected to repeated medical examinations or questions following suspected abuse. Children should contribute their own account of their own views, they should be listened to and within certain circumstances these should be applied, but when a child is in significant harm then you would look at the child’s best interest to make them safe. In cases of alleged abuse or harm children and young people have the right to be protected from significant harm under the children’s act 1989, every child matters 2004 and the UNCRC They have the right to be involved in decisions that are being made about them and should be kept fully informed of processes involving them, while also being allowed to express their own views and opinions. A child or young person who is suspected of being abused then the primary concern will to ensure that the child is protected from further abuse and the child’s welfare will be the priority.
CYP3.3 1.2 Explain child protection within the wider concept of safeguarding children and young people. Every school or establishment that deals with children, are required to have a safeguarding policy in place, which should be re-evaluated as well as updated on a regular basis. The term “Child Protection’ is increasingly being altered by that of “Safeguarding,” Child protection is idiosyncratically about abuse, it also comes under an umbrella term called safeguarding. Safeguarding are all the things that we do, all the policies and procedures we have that help keep the children safe. Safeguarding a child or young person is also to ensure that they have the outlook to achieve their true potential and have the right to be protected from abuse, such as: Physical abuse Sexual abuse Emotional abuse Neglect Exploitation This also shows the consequence of shared responsibilities as there can be many different agencies involved in dealing with each case.
It also involves protecting children and young people from maltreatment and preventing impairment of a child’s health and development by ensuring children are raised in positive circumstances by providing safe and caring environments. Parents and carers who fail to protect or care for their children could then be taken to court and the child be then removed from the home and placed in care. The UN Convention is a set of principles about the way how to protect children from discrimination, neglect and abuse. It is the principal children's treaty, covering a full range of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. It grants rights for children in peacetime as well as during armed conflict, and provides for the implementation of those rights.
• The importance of undertaking and updating safeguarding training As a foster carer the protection and safeguarding of CYP is paramount to the work I undertake as a foster carer. There are a number of key pieces of legislation, which set out the framework for all agencies working CYP These are: The Children Act 1989 This Act is the foundation on which the protection of children is based. Of paramount importance thought is the “welfare of the child” In essence this means that the need to protect children comes before everything else and this principle needs to be at the forefront of all work with CYP as the protection of children from abuse overrides all other considerations (including confidentiality) The outstanding points of the Act which I am familiar with are:- Section 17 (1) It shall be the general duty of every local authority (a) To safeguard and promote the welfacre of children within their area who are in need: and (b) So far as is consistent with that duty, to promote the upbringing of such children by their families, by providing a range and level of services appropriate to those children’s needs
Safeguarding children A guide for childminders and nannies NCMA This guide has been produced by the National Childminding Association (NCMA) for you to refer to if you have concerns about a child. It is not a substitute for training and NCMA strongly recommends that you take advantage of any child protection courses that you are offered. I m p o rt a n t c o n t a c t s N C M A S a f e g u a r d i n g C h i l dr e n S e r v i c e NCMA’s advice service for anyone concerned about the welfare of a child. Call 0845 880 0044 or any NCMA office and ask to be put in touch with a specially trained member of NCMA staff, known as a “designated officer”. NS PCC Child Prote ct ion He lpline 0808 800 5000 A 24-hour helpline for anyone worried