Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care 1.1 Physical abuse is non accidental harm caused to a body. Examples include punching‚ kicking‚ slapping and pinching. Sexual abuse is the involvement of a vulnerable adult in sexual activities or relationship. Examples include inappropriate touching‚ kissing and indecent exposure. Emotional/Psychological abuse is behaviour that is harmful to emotional health and mental wellbeing. Examples includes threats of harm‚ humiliation and
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inter-agency child protection plan to safeguard children. Decisions will then be made regarding the action that should be taken to safeguard and protect the child or young person. They also deal with the courts if a child or young person is thought to be in immediate danger and they will also have arrangements in place so that they may be contacted directly by parents or family
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1.All those working with children have a professional responsibility to safeguard and protect children. Child Protection is a highly emotive subject‚ evoking strong feelings in most people. In order to provide the most effective support and help for vulnerable children and their families‚ all staff managing services and involved in working directly with children need to be able to acknowledge their feelings and examine their different values and beliefs. Every child can be hurt‚ put at risk of
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legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people‚ compile a folder to include the following documents: an outline of current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people. Question 1b (Weighting: 0) An explanation of child protection within the wider concept of safeguarding children and young people. Child protection is specifically about abuse but it comes under an umbrella
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Peat TDA 2.2 Safeguarding In England the law states that all practitioners working with children have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people in accordance with the Children Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004. It is important that everyone working with children fully understand their responsibilities and duties as set out in this legislation which addresses all areas of child care. The term safeguarding has replaced the term child protection and includes promoting
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Key legislations which govern safeguarding adults work are: Disability Discrimination Act 2010: The Disability Discrimination Act was governed to reduce the discrimination towards disabled people. The Act was passed in 1995 however it has been amended to improve its scope a number of times. The Act also allows carer to not make discrimination against the disabled adults which they are responsible for. Data Protection Act 2003: Data Protection Act is a mandatory law that every health care professional
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part of a childâ€TMs life and explains how adults can work together to make sure all children can enjoy their rights. Every single child has rights regardless of their gender‚ abilities or religion. Dependant on where in the Uk you are based the Safeguarding of children is ever so slightly different. The document †̃Working Together to Safeguard Childrenâ€TM shows how organisations‚ school and individuals should work together to safeguard promote the welfare of children and young people with regards
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Christ University Law Journal A research paper on: “Evolution of Consumer Protection and Way Forward” Submitted to: The Journals and Publications Society‚ School of Law‚ Christ University Author: Abhishek Gupta Co-author: Kritika Mishra Faculty of Law‚ JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY‚ NEW DELHI ACKNOWLEDGEMENT At the outset‚ I would like to thank School of Law‚ Christ University with its core team of The Journals and Publications Society‚ School of Law‚ Christ University for organising
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Unit 516: understand safeguarding of children and young people 2.1 Safeguarding is the concept of protecting individuals from unnecessary harm which includes; ensuring the environment is safe‚ that rights and wishes are respected‚ that indicators of abuse are known‚ and that staff act on concerns by reporting in the agreed way. It is important to understand that anyone can be abused in any situation but to understand the level of safeguarding required‚ we must consider mental capacity and vulnerability
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Policies and procedures can be time consuming to write from scratch. Local authorities hold a standard set of policies and procedures which they have developed for schools to adopt and tailor to make them specific to the individual setting. Policies and procedures need to be kept up to date by a rolling set of periodic reviews. It is important that policies are dated‚ review dates noted on them and that the reviews are held in a timely manner to ensure that the documents do not fall out of date.
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