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.
3. Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006 The 2006 revised version of this document provides an update on safeguarding and a national framework to help all agencies work together to safeguard the welfare of children. 4. The
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.
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.
Children Act 2004 – The Children Act 2004 was brought about following an independent inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbié by Lord Laming. The Children Act 2004 does not replace but instead amends the Children Act 1989. It establishes Local Safeguarding Children's Boards with the power to make sure that social services, police, education services, the NHS and other services work together to protect any vulnerable children. Common Assessment Framework (CAF) which uses a holistic approach for assessing, Section 2 An explanation of child protection, within the wider concept of safeguarding children and young people. What does child protection mean?
unit 4227-071 1.1 explain how current and relevant legislation and policy affects work with children and young people: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 - which ensure that children are safe and looked after, children have the right to be protected from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect, negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation including sexual abuse by those looking after them. This is used in residential care to ensure that children and young people are safeguarded and are given the right amount of care that they need, ofsted will look at how well children are looked after in any setting where a child is being cared for outside their home setting.if standards are not met then the home will either be shut or given tasks to improve the quality of care that children and young people are recieveing. Children Act 1989 - Parents and professionals must work to ensure the safety of the child. Local Authority has ‘a duty to investigate when there is a reasonable cause to suspect that a child suspect that a child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. It is important that care givers follow this as if a child comes to harm or has suffered neglect the caregiver could face legal action.
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
CYP 3.3 A1 The main legislation, policies and procedures for safeguarding | [CYP 3.3 - 1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4,1.5] | Legislation, policies and procedures for safeguarding Learning Outcome:Understand the main legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people. Assessment Criteria:CYP 3.3 - 1.1 Outline current legislation, guidelines,policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people.CYP 3.3 - 1.2 Explain child protection within the wider concept of safeguarding children and young people. CYP 3.3 - 1.3 Analyse how national and local guidelines,policies and procedures for safeguarding affect day to day work with children and young people.CYP 3.3 - 1.4 Explain when and why inquiries and serous case reviews are required and how the sharing of the findings informs future practice.CYP 3.3 - 1.5 Explain how the processes used by own work setting or service comply with legislation that covers date protection,information handling and sharing. It is important that you understand the main legislation, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people. The tasks below will help you to become more familiar with them.Task 1 - [1.1,1.2]Outline the current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures that affect the safeguarding of children and young people.
EYMP 3 Promote Children’s Welfare and well-being in the early years 1.1 Explain the welfare requirements and guidance of the relevant Early Years Framework The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets the standards that all early years providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. There are 9 areas: Child Protection (EYFS 3.4 – 3.8) A Safeguarding policy must be in place and a person in the setting take responsibility for safeguarding in the setting. This person must be the ‘font of all knowledge’ in this area. They must be the liaison with external agencies and the person to go to when queries are raised regarding any safeguarding issues. This person must take responsibility for training all staff in this area.
CYP Core 3.3 Understand how to safeguard the well being of children and young people. Outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK HOME NATION affecting the safeguarding of children and young people. Child protection is part of the wider work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. It refers to the activity that is undertaken to protect specific children who are suffering from any form of abuse or neglect. 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.