Assignment On Safeguarding

Introduction:
Safeguarding children is high priority within professional practices to ensure that all children are supported and have the right to reach full potential (Lindon, 2008). In order to show and understand how safeguarding is applied, a residential setting providing specialist care for children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) will be considered. The current legislation including Helping Children Achieve More will be explained to show how the multidisciplinary team around the child maintain standards and meet Ofsted requirements (Grigg, 2010). Other policy’s that are put in place by the specialist provider will also be considered to better understand how staff implement procedures and how best practice is carried out. The effectiveness
Training is continually updated and assessed to ensure continued personal and professional development. Supervisions should be available to practitioners as it is a support system and a good source for advice and expertise. Supervisions ensure that any personal concerns about team members can be brought forward to the attention of the manager practicing whistle blowing policies. For example, staff member A has a one on one supervision meeting with the team manger, where a disclosure is made referring to a colleague’s inappropriate use of communication with a service user. The manager can then record and report the incident internally or to the external agencies if safeguarding needs to be informed and also address effective communication with the relevant staff member during a supervision session (Flynn and Starns, 2004). All staff members are trained in autism awareness, positive behavioral techniques and communication skills these are vital aspects when working with children with ASD and are used effectively in order to carry out person centered care plans that are tailored to individual needs. For example, a child with ASD who is a non verbal speaker may benefit more from a visual person centered plan. Individuals are risk assessed and assigned a staff team when in the home or in the community for example a service user who needs two to one support in the home, may need four to one support in the community. The effectiveness of DOL’s allows staff to safeguard children and young people within the law. If a safeguarding issue occurs the individuals risk assessment is reviewed and updated with the new behavior recommendation implemented into the care plan. The whistle blowing policy, in place to protect staff may prove ineffective if personal friendships or people who are related are working together in care teams. Further, colleagues can effect this policy in workplaces with