Safeguarding means everyone who is involved with children must always make sure they keep them safe and protected from any harm. Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility‚ working together to make sure children stay safe. This includes the following: • Protecting children from maltreatment. • Preventing impairment of childrenâ€TMs health and development. • Ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care. • Taking action to enable all
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516 - Understand safeguarding of children and young people (for those working in the adult sector) 1. 1.1- For this assignment‚ I will be explaining my role in safeguarding children and young people. I am aware that I do not work with children or young people‚ however the protection and advocacy for this sector of society is‚ I believe‚ everyone’s responsibility. In 2013‚ the Government published ‘Working together to safeguard children’. Within this document‚ the term safeguarding is defined as
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Safeguarding Children Policy Statement: My primary responsibility and priority is for the children I care for. As a mother‚ I am acutely aware of how important it is to ensure your child is kept safe‚ especially when in someone else’s care. To become Ofsted registered I have to have an enhanced CRB disclosure (now called a Disclosure and Barring Service - DBS) as well as other members of my family over the age of 16. I am aware of the signs of different kinds of abuse‚ and if I have
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Running head: Children: A Vulnerable Population Children: A Vulnerable Population Children: A Vulnerable Population When thinking of vulnerable populations‚ at first thought one thinks of culture and minorities. Regardless of race‚ gender‚ ethnic background‚ or age children are classified as being vulnerable. Children are dependent on adults for virtually everything and it is this aspect that makes them vulnerable. From health care‚ nutrition‚ emotional‚ and social
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Engaging With Vulnerable People This essay will explore the concept of vulnerability‚ the type of people who can be vulnerable and its potential effects. It will then relate this specifically to the case of Miss Jaya an elderly Hindu lady who has no relatives and lives alone‚ and why she is perceived to be vulnerable. The essay will then go on to evaluate how a nurse can demonstrate professional values and empower the patient to help reduce their vulnerability‚ taking into account the Nursing
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Vulnerable populations are groups that are not well integrated into the health care system because of ethnic‚ cultural‚ economic‚ geographic‚ or health characteristics. This isolation puts members of these groups at risk for not obtaining necessary medical care‚ and thus constitutes a potential threat to their health. Commonly cited examples of vulnerable populations include racial and ethnic minorities‚ the rural and urban poor‚ undocumented immigrants‚ and people with disabilities or multiple chronic
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that deals with children must have a safeguarding policy in place which should be reviewed and updated regularly. As a teaching assistant it is vital that I know what the policy at my school contains so I am aware of what to do if I ever have any cause for concern. The term “child protection is increasingly being replaced by that of “safeguarding” Child protection is specifically about abuse but it comes under an umbrella term called safeguarding. Safeguarding are all the things that we do and the
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Haringey. By December Connelly’s new boyfriend‚ Barker moves in to the home. On 11th December Connelly and her mother are arrested after a GP spots that Peter has a head injury and other bruises. Soon after‚ Peter is placed on the Haringey child protection register for physical abuse and neglect. Peter is cared for by a family friend‚ however on 26th January Peter is returned to his mother‚ even though she is still on police bail. By 9th April Connelly takes him to North Middlesex hospital. Staff
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Safeguarding unit 25 1.1 current legislation guidelines policies and procedures in the UK affecting safeguarding of children and young people are: Children’s act 1989 – simplified laws that protected children‚ provided clarity to those working with children’s of their responsibilities and duties regarding keeping them safe. Children’s act 2004 – following the death of victoria climbie the children’s act was revised following the Laming Report in 2003. This report led to the production of ‘Every
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Safeguarding is an umbrella term that involves everything we do in the setting to ensure children are kept safe and healthy. It means a whole range of policies and procedures. Child protection is one aspect of this and is how our setting ensures children are protected from abuse. The 2008 Statutory Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is underpinned by the positive outcomes of Every Child Matters and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) (UN‚1989) which
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