Outline Current Legislation Guidelines, Policies and Procedures for Safeguarding Children and Young People.
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Outline current legislation guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people.
Legislation covering child protection can be divided into two main types, criminal law, dealing with people who have offended or are at risk of offending against children, and civil law, which is divided into public law and private law. Public law puts in place systems and processes in order to minimise the risk of children coming to harm and lays out what action should be taken if children are at risk. Private law deals with family proceedings such as divorce and contact. Some Acts contain both types of Law.Children and Young Persons Act 1933This was one of the first acts to be passed in Parliament with regards to protecting and safeguarding the welfare of children in the UK and it forms a basis on which many other Laws regarding children’s rights and safeguarding have been made and has hundreds of amendments to bring its detail up to date.It defines a variety of ways that children that may experience suffering, injury or damage to health, including loss of sight, hearing, limbs, body organ and includes mental cruelty and damage it describes as mental derangement. It makes it an offence for a person over 16 years old who is responsible for the child to cause or allow these types of harm to be caused to the child deliberately, by neglect, abandonment or allowing someone else to. It specifically defines protecting children from being burned by open fires or other heating appliances by not allowing them into a room without a guard in place and failure to take ”reasonable precautions” to prevent burns and scalds will make them liable to prosecution. It states that the parent or a person responsible for upkeep of the child shall be responsible for ensuring they have adequate food, clothing, medical aid
Outline current legislation guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people.
Legislation covering child protection can be divided into two main types, criminal law, dealing with people who have offended or are at risk of offending against children, and civil law, which is divided into public law and private law. Public law puts in place systems and processes in order to minimise the risk of children coming to harm and lays out what action should be taken if children are at risk. Private law deals with family proceedings such as divorce and contact. Some Acts contain both types of Law.Children and Young Persons Act 1933This was one of the first acts to be passed in Parliament with regards to protecting and safeguarding the welfare of children in the UK and it forms a basis on which many other Laws regarding children’s rights and safeguarding have been made and has hundreds of amendments to bring its detail up to date.It defines a variety of ways that children that may experience suffering, injury or damage to health, including loss of sight, hearing, limbs, body organ and includes mental cruelty and damage it describes as mental derangement. It makes it an offence for a person over 16 years old who is responsible for the child to cause or allow these types of harm to be caused to the child deliberately, by neglect, abandonment or allowing someone else to. It specifically defines protecting children from being burned by open fires or other heating appliances by not allowing them into a room without a guard in place and failure to take ”reasonable precautions” to prevent burns and scalds will make them liable to prosecution. It states that the parent or a person responsible for upkeep of the child shall be responsible for ensuring they have adequate food, clothing, medical aid