Health and Safety in Schools
Risk and challenges are important to children, avoiding these would result in a very timid child/ adult who would lack in everyday skills and abilities and wouldn’t be aware of risks and dangers. Children need to explore and take risks to learn and develop the UN Convention on the rights of children stresses on their right of making choices and taking decisions. But they do not always have the skills and judgments to make safe choices. This is where the adults working with children have to strike a balance between the child’s right of freedom to make choices and our duty of care to ensure children in our care don’t get harmed or injured . For example: A special needs child having physical disability might be restricted in play because of concern that the child could hurt himself whereas the child really wishes to take part in play however in a well controlled environment the child could be encouraged to explore and try out new skills under adult supervision.
In my nursery we allow children free flowing take over, respecting their choices and decisions ,allowing them to pick any activity and toy they want to play with yet keeping an eye on them that they take turns, share and do not do anything that could harm themselves and other children. It applies to our out door activities as well we ensure they are appropriately dressed for the weather, they are freely allowed to play with sand, climbing the frame, ride on the bike and cars etc yet on these events the staff is evenly split for children’s safety and care.
Task 1.3
The sources of current guidance for planning healthy and safe environment and services are given below
Health and Safety at Work (1974)
The health and safety at work 1974 stresses upon some basic duties of employee and the employer in regards to health and safety;
• Every employer shall ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of their employee.They have to ensure the provision of such
In my nursery we allow children free flowing take over, respecting their choices and decisions ,allowing them to pick any activity and toy they want to play with yet keeping an eye on them that they take turns, share and do not do anything that could harm themselves and other children. It applies to our out door activities as well we ensure they are appropriately dressed for the weather, they are freely allowed to play with sand, climbing the frame, ride on the bike and cars etc yet on these events the staff is evenly split for children’s safety and care.
Task 1.3
The sources of current guidance for planning healthy and safe environment and services are given below
Health and Safety at Work (1974)
The health and safety at work 1974 stresses upon some basic duties of employee and the employer in regards to health and safety;
• Every employer shall ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of their employee.They have to ensure the provision of such