Unit 5 Health And Social Care Level 3 Essay
Level 3 diploma for the children and young people’s workforce
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Task A
Up to date knowledge of how laws affect day to work practices are an important attribute for staff working in children and young people’s settings. Produce an information sheet for use within your setting. The information sheet should:
a) Outline current legislation within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people, including how • Inquiries and reviews where children have suffered harm or death • Data protection, information handling and sharing have impacted on current legislation and practice (ref. 1.1, ref. 1.4, ref. 1.5).
Policies and procedures for Safeguarding and Child Protection in England and Wales are the result of:
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The policy will ensure that we are all working in the setting with confidence. In my setting, we respect the laws of confidentiality in many ways, such as:-
• Information about children will be kept filed away, and only shared with parents of each specific child or other practitioners if they have a professional need to do so
• Parents cannot have access to any other child’s records, personal information, Learning Story, etc
All personal information about the children, including any social services records is kept safely filed as they too are classed as confidential and is only accessible to staff as they are locked in a filing cabinet in the office. Practitioners are not permitted to discuss an individual child with any other than that child’s parent or carer, and information that is given to practitioners by parents should not be passed onto third parties other than other staff who look after the children (if they need to know). This is stated under the Safeguarding and welfare requirements of the EYFS Statutory Guidance.
If there is a child protection matter concerning a parent, the Data Protection Act will allow an allegation without consent, so they can apprehend or prosecute the offender, in order to prevent or detect a
WE1
Task A
Up to date knowledge of how laws affect day to work practices are an important attribute for staff working in children and young people’s settings. Produce an information sheet for use within your setting. The information sheet should:
a) Outline current legislation within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people, including how • Inquiries and reviews where children have suffered harm or death • Data protection, information handling and sharing have impacted on current legislation and practice (ref. 1.1, ref. 1.4, ref. 1.5).
Policies and procedures for Safeguarding and Child Protection in England and Wales are the result of:
The …show more content…
The policy will ensure that we are all working in the setting with confidence. In my setting, we respect the laws of confidentiality in many ways, such as:-
• Information about children will be kept filed away, and only shared with parents of each specific child or other practitioners if they have a professional need to do so
• Parents cannot have access to any other child’s records, personal information, Learning Story, etc
All personal information about the children, including any social services records is kept safely filed as they too are classed as confidential and is only accessible to staff as they are locked in a filing cabinet in the office. Practitioners are not permitted to discuss an individual child with any other than that child’s parent or carer, and information that is given to practitioners by parents should not be passed onto third parties other than other staff who look after the children (if they need to know). This is stated under the Safeguarding and welfare requirements of the EYFS Statutory Guidance.
If there is a child protection matter concerning a parent, the Data Protection Act will allow an allegation without consent, so they can apprehend or prosecute the offender, in order to prevent or detect a