Shc 34
Assessment task – SHC34 Principles for implementing duty of care in Health, Social Care or Children’s & Young People’s Settings
What it means to have a duty of care in your own work role
“Duty of Care” is an obligation to ensure that children in your care are not harmed physically, emotionally or mentally. This involves giving suitable attention, looking out for potential hazards, preventing mistakes or accidents, and making informed choices about steps undertaken in your work role.
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is the structure which gives assurance to parents and carers that the early years setting which they have chosen will keep their children safe and help them to develop to their full potential. 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, having a positive influence and achieving economic wellbeing) by improving quality and consistency in the early year’s sector through a set of standards which apply to all settings.
Every child should be supported and enabled to live in an environment which is free from prejudice and safe from abuse. Your responsibilities under the duty of care are to do everything reasonable within the description of your job role to make this happen. Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (2012 section 3, 3.1) states that “Children learn best when they are healthy, safe and secure, when their individual needs are met, and when they have positive relationships with the adults caring for them”.
How duty of care contributes to the safeguarding or protection of individuals
In your role you have a duty of care to raise any concerns you may have about any aspect of your work. These can range from inadequate working conditions, poor equipment, poor practice by other staff; to raising concerns about potential abuse cases and situations of neglect.
It is your duty of care to safeguard
What it means to have a duty of care in your own work role
“Duty of Care” is an obligation to ensure that children in your care are not harmed physically, emotionally or mentally. This involves giving suitable attention, looking out for potential hazards, preventing mistakes or accidents, and making informed choices about steps undertaken in your work role.
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is the structure which gives assurance to parents and carers that the early years setting which they have chosen will keep their children safe and help them to develop to their full potential. 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, having a positive influence and achieving economic wellbeing) by improving quality and consistency in the early year’s sector through a set of standards which apply to all settings.
Every child should be supported and enabled to live in an environment which is free from prejudice and safe from abuse. Your responsibilities under the duty of care are to do everything reasonable within the description of your job role to make this happen. Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (2012 section 3, 3.1) states that “Children learn best when they are healthy, safe and secure, when their individual needs are met, and when they have positive relationships with the adults caring for them”.
How duty of care contributes to the safeguarding or protection of individuals
In your role you have a duty of care to raise any concerns you may have about any aspect of your work. These can range from inadequate working conditions, poor equipment, poor practice by other staff; to raising concerns about potential abuse cases and situations of neglect.
It is your duty of care to safeguard