Unit 025 Understand How to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Children and Young People. Outcome 1 Understand the Main Legislation, Guidelines, Policies and Procedures for Safeguarding Children and Young People.
Unit 025 Understand how to safeguard the wellbeing of children and young people.
Outcome 1 Understand the main legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people.
Current legislation, guidelines, policies & procedures:
“The Children Act 1989
An Act to reform the law relating to children; to provide for local authority services for children in need and others; to amend the law with respect to children’s homes, community homes, voluntary homes and voluntary organisations; to make provision with respect to fostering, child minding and day care for young children and adoption; and for connected purposes.”
The Children Act 1989, implemented for the most part on 14 October 1991, introduced comprehensive changes to legislation in England and Wales affecting the welfare of children. The scope of the Act is extremely wide. Consequently, it has major implications for the practice of all who work with or for children. It changed the standing of children and young people in law, introduced new concepts relating to the responsibilities of adults, changed the structure and functioning of the courts, and provided an entirely new range of orders in both private & public law relating to the care of children.
The long history of children's welfare legislation had given rise to numerous uncoordinated official powers and functions, even within the same local authorities, resulting in the tragic maladministration of the Climbié case. Along with the Children Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004, there were reports in 2002, 2003, and 2004-05. Each Act has progressively attempted to improve the legal powers and official functions related to children in all forms, and to make official provision for children better and safer.
In 2000 in London, England, an eight-year-old girl Victoria Adjo Climbié was tortured and murdered by her guardians. Her death led to a public inquiry and produced major changes in child protection policies in
Outcome 1 Understand the main legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people.
Current legislation, guidelines, policies & procedures:
“The Children Act 1989
An Act to reform the law relating to children; to provide for local authority services for children in need and others; to amend the law with respect to children’s homes, community homes, voluntary homes and voluntary organisations; to make provision with respect to fostering, child minding and day care for young children and adoption; and for connected purposes.”
The Children Act 1989, implemented for the most part on 14 October 1991, introduced comprehensive changes to legislation in England and Wales affecting the welfare of children. The scope of the Act is extremely wide. Consequently, it has major implications for the practice of all who work with or for children. It changed the standing of children and young people in law, introduced new concepts relating to the responsibilities of adults, changed the structure and functioning of the courts, and provided an entirely new range of orders in both private & public law relating to the care of children.
The long history of children's welfare legislation had given rise to numerous uncoordinated official powers and functions, even within the same local authorities, resulting in the tragic maladministration of the Climbié case. Along with the Children Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004, there were reports in 2002, 2003, and 2004-05. Each Act has progressively attempted to improve the legal powers and official functions related to children in all forms, and to make official provision for children better and safer.
In 2000 in London, England, an eight-year-old girl Victoria Adjo Climbié was tortured and murdered by her guardians. Her death led to a public inquiry and produced major changes in child protection policies in