Duty of Care Assignment Level 3 Cache Diploma
`SHC 34 PRICIPLES FOR IMPLEMENTING DUTY OF CARE IN HEALTH, SOCIAL CARE OR CHILDRREN’S AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S SETTINGS
1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in your own work role
Wikipedia describes “a duty of care is a legal obligation imposed on an individual requiring that they adhere to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could foreseeably harm others”. I understand that a Duty of Care within my work role requires many things. Firstly, the children are placed into the environment by parents who want the best for their children. They expect they staff to have a degree of knowledge and understanding including education and training, to enable them to look after their children to the best of their ability. Alongside this, we need to ensure that the children are in a safe and secure environment, that the setting offers safe toys and activities for the children. It is important that the child is looked after emotionally and physically and that they feel safe and happy. The setting also has a legal responsibility to ensure that the property is safe and that insurances are in place. There is a legal obligation to have staff correctly certificated and checked for training purposes and for security checks to make sure that they are eligible to work with children.
Our setting works to the guidance and instruction of the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) framework to ensure that we treat the children to the best of our abilities.
“The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is the framework that provides assurance to parents and carers that the early year’s providers which they choose will keep their children safe and help them to thrive. The overall aim of the EYFS is to help young children achieve the five Every child matters outcomes (staying safe, being healthy, enjoying and achieving, making positive contribution, and achieving economic wellbeing) by improving quality and consistency in the early years sector through a
1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in your own work role
Wikipedia describes “a duty of care is a legal obligation imposed on an individual requiring that they adhere to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could foreseeably harm others”. I understand that a Duty of Care within my work role requires many things. Firstly, the children are placed into the environment by parents who want the best for their children. They expect they staff to have a degree of knowledge and understanding including education and training, to enable them to look after their children to the best of their ability. Alongside this, we need to ensure that the children are in a safe and secure environment, that the setting offers safe toys and activities for the children. It is important that the child is looked after emotionally and physically and that they feel safe and happy. The setting also has a legal responsibility to ensure that the property is safe and that insurances are in place. There is a legal obligation to have staff correctly certificated and checked for training purposes and for security checks to make sure that they are eligible to work with children.
Our setting works to the guidance and instruction of the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) framework to ensure that we treat the children to the best of our abilities.
“The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is the framework that provides assurance to parents and carers that the early year’s providers which they choose will keep their children safe and help them to thrive. The overall aim of the EYFS is to help young children achieve the five Every child matters outcomes (staying safe, being healthy, enjoying and achieving, making positive contribution, and achieving economic wellbeing) by improving quality and consistency in the early years sector through a