It is extremely important to keep accurate records regarding the development of children and young people. There is legislation in place to ensure that this is ensure that this happens‚ within Cambridgeshire County Council we have got the Cambridgeshire Behaviours which state that accurate records must be kept. Our records are audited by senior members of staff and any discrepancies would be picked up. Along with the accurate recording is the safeguarding of this information which is confidential
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Assignment 2 Outline current policies and legislation relating to children and how these affect your practice. 1989 The Children Act States that the Local Authority has ‘a duty to investigate when there is reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering‚ or is likely to suffer‚ significant harm’‚ section 47 The Welfare of the child is paramount regarding his/her upbringing. Parental rights duties and obligations are outlined. Provisions are made regarding fostering‚ adoption‚ child minding
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Level 5 Diploma for Learning Development and Support Services Workforce (QCF) Understand theoretical approaches to building effective professional relationships with children and young people and their families. 1.1 There are several key approaches to developing professional relationships with children and young people such as psychological‚ behaviourist‚ humanist and psychodynamic theories; family therapy/systems approaches; and the principles of restorative justice. Psychological approaches
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affecting the safeguarding of children and young people There are legislations‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures within the UK that are in place to help safeguard children and young people in the community. Some of these are; The Children Act 1989 This is an act to amend previous laws relating to children: To provide for local authority services for children in need and others: To make provision for those who foster‚ childmind and for day-care for young children and adoption. Also‚ for children’s
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Introduction This essay explores how unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) are oppressed in the UK. An unaccompanied asylum seeking child is a person under the age of eighteen who has left their country of origin in order to seek refuge and is ‘separated from both parents and are not being cared for by an adult who‚ by law or custom has responsibility to do so’ (UNHCR‚ 1994:121). They are therefore applying for asylum in their own right. Discrimination is the process of identifying that
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guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. These are as follows: • Children’s act 1098/2004 • Education act 2002 • E-safety 2008 • Safeguarding • Human rights act. And many more. The following is an outline of current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures within the UK Home Nation for Safeguarding Children. The United Nations Convention on the rights of a child 1989 was approved by the UK on the 16th December 1991‚ this includes:
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Unit 71‚ Outcome 1 Explain how current and relevant legislation and policy affects work with children and young people. Current legislation is the result of The children Act 1989 which was brought in to ensure that all people who work with children worked together and was clear about their responsibility’s and knew how to act if allegations of child abuse were made.Following the death of Victoria Climbie in the year 2000 an independent inquiry highlighted many problems with how reports of neglect
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legislation and local guidelines which deal with safeguarding of children and young people. Create a simple summary of the key points of each. |Legislation/guidelines |Key points | | |This is a set of 54 articles included in those which ensure that children are safe and looked | |
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to safeguard the well being of children The definition of safeguarding is “the process of protecting children from abuse or neglect‚ preventing impairment of their health and development‚ and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care that enables children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.”1 TASK 1 – legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies & procedures for safeguarding children Every element of a childcare
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or sexual abuse‚neglect and failure the thrive not based on illness ‚or bullying and harassment. All in setting for children and young people in England and Wales qre the result of legislation passed in parliament‚including ‚England and Wales‚ the children Act 1989 and children Act 2004. These acts where brought in with the aim of simplifying the laws that protect children and young people .They tell people what their duties are and how they should work together when child abuse in suspected
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