CYPOP5-6.3 Outline regulatory requirements for safeguarding children that affect home based childcare The Department of Education published the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage, in which Section 3 outlines the Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements. You must have a safeguarding policy in place which must be regularly reviewed and the policy must be shared with parents. The legal framework for Child Protection is determined by the Children Act 1989. Local policy and guidance in Child Protection is the responsibility of the Local Safeguarding Children Boards, established by the Children Act 2004. All agencies and workers involved in providing services to children have an obligation under Section 11 Children Act 2004 to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
The Children Law (Guernsey and Alderney) Law 2008 states that all States Departments have a duty to work together and share information to ensure that children and young people get the services they require. (http://www.childrenlaw.gg) This is also essential to protect children and young people from suffering
Local Authorities have ‘a duty to investigate when there is a reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm’. The Education Act 2002 outlines the responsibilities of Local Education Authorities (LEAs), Governing bodies, head teachers and all those working in schools to ensure that children are safe and free from harm. The Children Act 2004 highlights the need for all agencies involved in children’s services to work together to improve the well-being of children and young people. It is the responsibility of teachers and teaching assistants to be familiar with and implement policies regarding safeguarding children. The Every Child Matters agenda defines what is meant by the ‘well-being’ of children through the five outcomes that schools and teachers aim for every child to reach: be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution, achieve economic well-being.
| 1.1 Identify the current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety. Children’s Act 1989:This Act identifies the responsibilities of parents and professionals who work to ensure the safety of the child. This Act includes two sections which focus mainly on child protection. It states that the Local Authority has a duty to investigate when there is a reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering, or likely to suffer any harm. It also states that services must be put into place to safeguard and promote the welfare of children within the area who are in need.The Education Act:This sets out the responsibilities of Local Education Authorities (LEAs), governing bodies, head teachers and all those working in schools to ensure that children are safe and free from harm.Children’s Act 2004This provides the legal framework for Every Child Matters.
Safeguarding Answer the following questions: Unit 025 – Understand How to Safeguard the Well-being of Children and Young People. 1. Outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people Policies and procedures for safeguarding and child protection in England and Wales have been formulated from; Children Act 1989 Protects children and young people in the UK and clarifies to people working with children what their duties are and how to work together in event of child abuse. England and Wales produced a separate document Working Together to Safeguard Children (1999), which emphasises the responsibilities of professionals towards children who are at risk of harm. Children Act 2004 • Integration of children’s services and introduction of children’s directors who are responsible for local authority education and children’s social services • Lead councillors for children’s services with political responsibility for child welfare • The establishment of Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards who have statutory powers to ensure that social services, the NHS, education services, the Police and other services work together to protect vulnerable children • A new Common Assessment Framework to help agencies to identify welfare needs • Revised arrangements for sharing information Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006 Revised and updated on safeguarding and a national framework to help agencies work individually and together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children The Vetting and Barring Scheme Introduced in October 2009, this aims to prevent unsuitable people working with children and vulnerable people.
September 2014 Janice Munden – Heathfarm School – Level 3 SSTLS Unit 11 : Section 1 – Understand the main legislation, guidelines policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people * 1.1 – Outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of C/YP The key pieces of legislation that support the safeguarding of children are The Children’s Act 1989 : Children’s Act 2004, Childcare Act 2006 and others. I have listed several below. 1. Children’s Act 1989 – sets out principals to guide the work of local authorities and courts and also defined ‘significate harm’ and a child ‘in need’ of intervention. 2.
TDA 2.2 Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people 1 Know about the legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety. 1.1 Identify the current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety. The current legislation for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people is working with the children, young people and their family’s to ensure the risk of harm is minimized which might include sexual, physical or emotional abuse or even neglect. There are a lot of legislations in place which mostly all of them cover the same thing safeguarding the welfare of children and young people, many laws have come into place to strengthen the ways that children are protected. There are more than just a couple of acts in place the education act 2002 is one of them which requires school governing bodies, local education and further education institutions to make arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, adoption and children’s act 2002 which amends the children act 1989 with definition of harm which now includes a child witnessing violence.
It sets out the duties and powers available to public authorities to support children and their families and to intervene when the child's welfare requires it. Under pressure over serious child protection cases, the 2001Scottish executive published a children's charter, setting out how carers and professionals should protect and respect rights of children. The Protection of Children Act 1999 was passed in England, aiming to prevent paedophiles from working with children; a similar act was passed in Scotland in 2003. (Scottish Executive Publications) Government Policies and Looked After Children Looked After Children fall into two main categories: 1) Looked After and Accommodated: children and young people placed by the local authority and/or the Children’s Hearings system with foster carers, adoption services, residential care homes, with relatives in kinship care. 2) Looked After at Home under a supervision order, at home with parents receiving support and assistance to address issues of why they are in need of care.
The Children Act 2004 provides Legal Framework, including a database between services responsible for children and young people. Schools must develop their own policies to ensure the safety and well being of their pupils. These must include cyber bullying and e.safety for who there must be a named member of staff responsible. Assistance can be sought from the Department of Education to
Section 47 states that the local authority has ‘ a duty to investigate when there is a reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering, or likely to suffer significant harm’ Section 17 states that services must be put into place to ‘safeguard and promote the welfare of children within the area who are in need’. The Education Act 2002 sets out the responsibilities of Local Education Authorities, governing bodies, head teachers and all those working in schools to ensure that children are safe and free from harm. The Children Act 2004, which provides the legal framework for every child matters, includes the requirements for: * Services to work more closely forming an integrated service * A common assessment of children’s needs * A shared database of information which is relevant to the safety and welfare of children * Earlier support for parents who are experiencing problems. Schools must always have a policy that includes E-safety, which is the protection of young people whilst they are using the internet. They must also have policies on bullying and cyber bullying.