Children’s Act 1989 The heart of the Children Act is a belief that the best place for children to be looked after is within their own home and ensuring the welfare of the childrens upbringing is paramount. The Act is built on the notion of parental responsibility. This is duties‚ rights‚ powers and responsibilities of a parent in respect of their child. The aim of the Children Act is to offer safeguard to children who may be at risk. It also seeks to protect families and their children.
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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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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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In your role as early years practitioner you will know that teamwork can sometimes be challenging. Multi-agency practice takes place where children spend most of their time and feel familiar – this could be a children’s centre‚ school‚ village hall‚ health centre etc. But it is important to understand what some of the barriers to effective working might be: • Lack of understanding of roles and responsibilities - Where people have been clearly trained for a role they may find it odd to be managed
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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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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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How is the health and welfare of children who attend school protected and supported? Draw on Units 2 ( Childhood)‚ 3( Health) and 4 ( Law) for your answer. The welfare of children who attend school are protected by law through acts of parliament and enforced through legislation. Their health is supported through various ideologies implemented throughout their schooling and through the National Curriculum. Health is about being in good physical condition and the knowledge to maintain it. Welfare
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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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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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Unit -1 an introduction to working with children E1 Statutory setting Tassoni states “these are services that have to be available by the law” Tassoni (2007 p.g3) this is a government funded organisation‚ which caters for children from the age of 4-11. It is a legal requirement and failure to attend will lead to fines or prosecutions. Statutory settings all follow the national curriculum which dictates how any particular subject is taught i.e. programme plans‚ lesson plans objectives and lesson
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