unit 054 child care
Unit 054
Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role.
Duty of Care means that practitioners take on legal responsibilities to safeguard the welfare and well being of the children in their care. This includes appropriate attention, watching out for potential hazards, preventing mistakes or accidents, and making wise choices about steps undertaken in a role. Every child should be supported and enabled to live in an environment which is free from prejudice and safe from abuse. My responsibilities under the duty of care are to do everything reasonable within my job role to make this happen. The level of duty of care depends on who you are caring for, a high duty of care would be those who have a limited ability to care for themselves like younger children. Duty of care should include:
Keeping an individual safe
To keep an individual free from harm
To give choice
When working with children it brings a significant duty of care and you must always be able to recognise this so that you can see the ability to force and cope with potential dangers.
With young children in your care you have a duty to protect them from harm, whether it’s physical or psychological. A duty of care is about what a person in a specific role has to do to ensure that others are taken care of and not harmed during a particular task. This involves:
Giving appropriate attention
Watching out for potential hazards
Preventing mistakes or accidents
Making wise choices about steps undertaken in a role.
Carry out risk assessments.
Being aware of the signs a child may be being abused.
Example how I do this in my setting:
Within my setting myself or another colleague will carry out daily checks to ensure that the environment inside and outside is safe before my work starts.
To make sure that tables are clean before snack and dinner time.
To make sure that there is warm soapy water in the toilets and that it is changed regularly.
To make sure if there’s any
Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role.
Duty of Care means that practitioners take on legal responsibilities to safeguard the welfare and well being of the children in their care. This includes appropriate attention, watching out for potential hazards, preventing mistakes or accidents, and making wise choices about steps undertaken in a role. Every child should be supported and enabled to live in an environment which is free from prejudice and safe from abuse. My responsibilities under the duty of care are to do everything reasonable within my job role to make this happen. The level of duty of care depends on who you are caring for, a high duty of care would be those who have a limited ability to care for themselves like younger children. Duty of care should include:
Keeping an individual safe
To keep an individual free from harm
To give choice
When working with children it brings a significant duty of care and you must always be able to recognise this so that you can see the ability to force and cope with potential dangers.
With young children in your care you have a duty to protect them from harm, whether it’s physical or psychological. A duty of care is about what a person in a specific role has to do to ensure that others are taken care of and not harmed during a particular task. This involves:
Giving appropriate attention
Watching out for potential hazards
Preventing mistakes or accidents
Making wise choices about steps undertaken in a role.
Carry out risk assessments.
Being aware of the signs a child may be being abused.
Example how I do this in my setting:
Within my setting myself or another colleague will carry out daily checks to ensure that the environment inside and outside is safe before my work starts.
To make sure that tables are clean before snack and dinner time.
To make sure that there is warm soapy water in the toilets and that it is changed regularly.
To make sure if there’s any