TDA22 1
TDA22 – 1.1
Child Act 1989
This act determines the responsibilities of both parents and professionals to provide the safety of a child. It includes two important areas which focus on child protection; they are:-
Section 17 – This section states that child services must be put into action by local authorities to ‘safeguard and improve the welfare of children within their area who are at need of help and support’.
Section 47- This section states that the local authority has a obligation to investigate when ‘they have plausible cause to suspect that a child or young person who lives, or is found, in their area is in distress, or likely to suffer significant harm’
Education Act 2002
This Act makes a number of miscellaneous amendments to childcare and nursery education legislation, in particular on the role of LEAs in childcare and nursery education, and makes amendments to the inspection and registration regimes for childminding and day care and nursery education.
Children Act 2004
This provides the legal framework for every child matters. It includes the requirement for:
* Services to work more closely together to share information.
* A ‘common’ assessment framework to help the early identification on needs of the children.
* A shared database of information which is relevant to the safety and welfare of children and is accessible to the social services, the NHS, education services and the police.
* Earlier support for parents who are experiencing difficulty with things and councillors for children’s services that have a responsibility to the welfare of a child.
Policies which Safeguard
Pre-schools must build their own range of policies which ensure the health, safety and well-being of children, staff and visitors. This will influence the way in which you work and the responsibilities of staff and the procedures that they must follow. They may be separate policies, or combined into one health and safety policy, but they must cover the following issues:
*
Child Act 1989
This act determines the responsibilities of both parents and professionals to provide the safety of a child. It includes two important areas which focus on child protection; they are:-
Section 17 – This section states that child services must be put into action by local authorities to ‘safeguard and improve the welfare of children within their area who are at need of help and support’.
Section 47- This section states that the local authority has a obligation to investigate when ‘they have plausible cause to suspect that a child or young person who lives, or is found, in their area is in distress, or likely to suffer significant harm’
Education Act 2002
This Act makes a number of miscellaneous amendments to childcare and nursery education legislation, in particular on the role of LEAs in childcare and nursery education, and makes amendments to the inspection and registration regimes for childminding and day care and nursery education.
Children Act 2004
This provides the legal framework for every child matters. It includes the requirement for:
* Services to work more closely together to share information.
* A ‘common’ assessment framework to help the early identification on needs of the children.
* A shared database of information which is relevant to the safety and welfare of children and is accessible to the social services, the NHS, education services and the police.
* Earlier support for parents who are experiencing difficulty with things and councillors for children’s services that have a responsibility to the welfare of a child.
Policies which Safeguard
Pre-schools must build their own range of policies which ensure the health, safety and well-being of children, staff and visitors. This will influence the way in which you work and the responsibilities of staff and the procedures that they must follow. They may be separate policies, or combined into one health and safety policy, but they must cover the following issues:
*