The main current legislation guidelines policies and procedures within UK home nation for safeguarding children and young people. Children’s order 2005 • Simplify laws that protected children and young people in respective UK countries. • Seen as a serious shake up to children rights and protection • Made it clear to everyone that worked with children what their duties were • Shows them how to work together when there is allegations of child abuse Children’s act 2004 • In 2003 it was clear services for children still weren’t working or communicating together this was flagged up because of the tragic death of Victoria Climbie • The organisation need to support and protect vulnerable children in the society • The lambing report resulted in a green paper called every child matters. • The integration of children’s service and the introduction of children’s directors with responsibility for local authority education and children’s social services. • Arrangements for sharing information has been reviewed and changed Vetting and barring The scheme was introduced in 2009 to stop unsuitable people working with vulnerable children and adults this scheme does the following: • a person who is barred from working with children or vulnerable adults will be breaking the law if they work or volunteer, or try to work or volunteer with those group.
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 established the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) to make decisions about individuals who should be barred from working with children and to maintain a list of these individuals. The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 merged the ISA with
The law specifies how schools must provide or deny services, and how parents can fight school districts for them. a. Who stands to benefit from the implementation of IDEA? * The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) contains safeguards to keep children with special
TDA 2.2: Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. Task 1.1 Identify the current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety. * The children Act 1989 * Children Act 2004/2006 * The education Act 2002 *What to do if you’re worried that a child is being abused (2006) * Working Together to Safeguard Children (2006) * E-safety 2008 Task 1.2 Describe the roles of different agencies involving in safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. There are many agencies that are involved in ensuring the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people. Some of these agencies are: * The NSPCC - "National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children" This organisation gives support and advice to children and young people through childline.
Outcome 1 1. Two current legislations that relate to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people are these (among many); Children Act 2004 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2013. A procedure is a way of effecting something – so in this case, doing something to safeguard children; two procedures are those such as, not letting young children to go on the internet if they’ve got a mobile phone and not allowing a member of staff to use their mobile phones anywhere on the premises. A policy, that probably groups a lot of the others together, is confidentiality. 2.
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.
Any student who failed to follow the policy would be sent home immediately and suspended until they decided to follow the schools policy. The families of those fellow students didn’t decide to file a lawsuit until after the Iowa Civil Liberties Union approached their family, and ACLU agreed to help the family with their case. The parents in turn, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court, which upheld the decision of the Des Moines school board. The courts seven to two decision held that the first amendment applied to public schools, and that administrators would have to demonstrate constitutionally valid reasons for any specific regulation of speech in the classroom. The court observed, " it can hardly be argued that either students or
TDA 2.2 : Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people Task 1.1 Identify current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety • The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) • Children Act 1989, Children Act 2004 • The Education Act 2002 • Policies which safeguard (safeguarding and protecting, and procedures for reporting, e-safety, bullying, including cyber-bullying) • Working Together to Safeguard Children (2006) • What to do if you’re worried that a child is being abused (2006) (http://www.safenetwork.org.uk/training_and_awareness/pages/lscbs.aspx Task 1.2 Describe the role of different agencies involved in safeguarding the welfare of the children and young people. When looking or assessing the needs of individual children, there are agencies that work together in partnership to safeguard the child’s safety and welfare and there may be meetings between the child and family, health services, social services and the school. The bullet points below include agencies that work in partnership to safeguard children. The school is responsible for Following the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSC) procedures All staff attending child protection training Work with parents except if it is conflicting with the need to guarantee the child’s safety Report any concern or incident to senior colleague because confidentiality is essential and write or record a clear, accurate and truthful account of their observation on the same day Ensuring that if a referral is made to social services, that the head of the school most make sure that the report of the incident is sent to the social worker dealing with the case with in 48 hours Any child who is identified as ‘at risk’ or who has being placed in the Child Protection Register should
Outline current legislation, guildelines, policies and procedures within own UK home National affecting the safeguarding of children and young people • That it is not easy for a CYP to make a disclosure of abuse, ill treatment or neglect and that the consequences of such a disclosure are likely to have profound effects on the CYP. Therefore I would need to: Listen and acknowledge what it being said Be reassuring and calm Be aware that the CYP ability to recount their concerns or allegation will depend on age, culture, language and communications skills and disability. That I do not promise full confidentiality & that I will explain what I will do next. That it is not my role or responsibility to investigate allegations. • 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.
Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7. John and Mary are having an impasse with prayer in schools. The First Amendment protects both the believers and non-believers by being neutral about belief. Children and adolescences have the right to choose to pray voluntarily. “The Supreme Court has ruled that students are allowed to organize, voluntarily, religious clubs -- which can include prayer and Bible study—at public schools, just as they might any other kind of club (Mosser, 2010, pa. 2.3)” Yes, we should keep religion and school separate, but the children has the choosing to do it voluntary.