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.
Improve decisions about whether further specialist assessment is required and, if necessary, provide information to contribute to it. Provide better, more evidence base information to targeted and specialist services. The holistic approach adopted by the common assessment focuses on three assessment areas for the safeguarding of the children. • Development of the child or young person How well the child or young person is developing, including their health, emotional and social development, and progress in learning. • Parents and carers How well parents and carers are able to support their child or young person’s development and respond appropriately to their needs.
This encourages us to work together, help and check the development of babies, children and young people, to keep them healthy and safe. It promotes teaching and learning to ensure a child is ready for
Assignment 026. Understand how to safeguard the well being of children and young people. Task A. Safeguarding Children Presentation for new workers. This leaflet is designed to explain to new workers in a childcare settings the importance of safeguarding children and young people, how we can help children and young people grow and develop in a safe environment, protected from harm, abuse and maltreatment. This leaflet also focuses on current legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines applying to settings in England, as some legislations, policies, procedures and guidelines may vary in Scotland, Ireland, Wales.
141- professional practice in children's care, learning and development. 1.1 analyse how values, principles and statutory frameworks underpin service provisions in children's care, learning and development in UK home nation. The principle of an early year sector is that the welfare of the children is paramount. Practitioners that work in early year sector contribute to children’s care, learning and their development, and protecting children who are in a safeguarding issue example, abuse. This is supported in every aspect of practice in the settings and the service provision practitioners will work with parents and their families who are partners in the care, learning and development, safeguarding of their children and are the child’s first and most enduring
• Equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice are actively promoted. • Children and young people’s health and well-being are actively promoted. • Children and young people’s educational needs are given high priority to ensure that they reach their full potential. • Children and young people’s personal and physical safety is safeguarded, whilst allowing for risk and challenge, as appropriate to the capabilities of the child or young person. • Self-esteem and resilience are recognised as essential to every child or young person’s development.
• Structured – a planned observation whereby a child is given a specific activity and is then observed carrying it out, giving a factual account of what happens. There are also methods which can be used to follow a particular child in more detail. These are useful when there is an area of concern, a need to prove that a milestone has or has not been reached, or a requirement for detailed observations to assist in diagnosis of a developmental delay. • Focus child – a particular child is observed for a specific amount of time. Categories are pre-coded to allow for events to be recorded in a consistent way.
Unit 302- Engage in personal development in health social care and young people’s settings Understand what is required for competence in own work role 302.1.1 Describe the duties and responsibilities of own work role My duties and responsibilities as a foster carer are to provide care to looked after children (LAC) and young people of various ages. To help and protect children who may have come from difficult backgrounds and experienced abuse, neglect and a chaotic or disruptive family life. We help the child to prepare for returning home to the birth family or for an adoptive/permanent family situation. We promote and be positive about contact with the child’s parents or any wider family members. We have to work with social workers and other outside agencies and share good practice to make the placement a positive situation for the child in our care.
o Revised arrangements for sharing information. • Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006 – This document sets a framework that helps children’s agencies work together and alone to promote the welfare of the children. The Children in Northern Ireland organisations vision is to enhance the lives of all children in Northern Ireland by promoting the work of the children’s sector to maximise positive outcomes for children, young people and their families. They aim to be child focused in their work, ensuring that their activities are oriented towards achieving positive outcomes for children. • Every child matters is a green paper that was a result of the laming report (Victoria Climbie).
Focus on – Working with Others Working with other agencies when working with children and young people is essential to providing an effective service. Multi-agency working ensures the most appropriate, experienced and skilled team are working together to ensure an integrated approach to issues relating to the child or young person. This may be within a nursery, educational, youth or special needs environment, with the focus being on the welfare and development of the child or young person and can relate to any area from simple transport facilities to and from school, up to specialist psychological or physical therapies. It is therefore vital that those working with children and young people know the referral processes and what agencies are