Child Care Level 3
Unit/Title …. Assignment 2
Outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own uk home nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people?
These are the laws to safeguard children:
The children act 1989,
The children act 2004,
Child care 2006,
Every child matters,
Working together to safeguard children,
The human rights act 1998,
It might be difficult to accept but every child can be hurt, put at risk or harm or abused, regardless of their age, gender, religion or ethnicity.
Each person that comes into the childs or their familys life even for just one day have a duty to keep the children safe.
Safeguarding legislation and government guidence feels that safeguarding means protecting children from maltreatment, preventing impairment of childrens health development and ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care.
"Undertaking that role as to enable those children to have optimum life chances and to enter adulthood successfully." working together to safeguard children. (1.18hm government 2010.) Explain child protection within the wider concept of safeguarding 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. Parents or 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 into care.
Wider forms of safeguarding also include: risk assessments such as providing a safe environment inside and outside a school
Outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own uk home nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people?
These are the laws to safeguard children:
The children act 1989,
The children act 2004,
Child care 2006,
Every child matters,
Working together to safeguard children,
The human rights act 1998,
It might be difficult to accept but every child can be hurt, put at risk or harm or abused, regardless of their age, gender, religion or ethnicity.
Each person that comes into the childs or their familys life even for just one day have a duty to keep the children safe.
Safeguarding legislation and government guidence feels that safeguarding means protecting children from maltreatment, preventing impairment of childrens health development and ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care.
"Undertaking that role as to enable those children to have optimum life chances and to enter adulthood successfully." working together to safeguard children. (1.18hm government 2010.) Explain child protection within the wider concept of safeguarding 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. Parents or 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 into care.
Wider forms of safeguarding also include: risk assessments such as providing a safe environment inside and outside a school
Bibliography: · www.nspcc.org.uk. 08/11/2012 www.merton.gov.uk/childprotection. 10/11/2012 www.hoddereducation.co.uk. 10/11/2012 · working together to safeguard children, 1.18hm goverment 2010.