of the children within the setting. As an Early year’s practitioners‚ it is our duty to provide care and education to ensure children are safe and reach their full potential by ensuring continual professional development as it is vital to keep up to date with up-to-date legislation and policies. As stated by Ofsted annual report 2009/10‚ ‘Safeguarding…is an issue addressed not only with increasing sureness by responsible
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achieve excellence in care of children and young people. Ofsted assess children services in local areas and inspect services for looked after children ‚ safeguarding and child protection. Ofsted’s job is to check places that young people and children are looked after and the people who look after children and young people. They check to see if people are doing a good job in looking after children‚ if they are not they try to help them get better. Ofsted inspect children services e.g. childminders‚
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the welfare of children and young people including e-safety. Legislation covering child protection can be divided into two main categories : civil law and criminal law. The Children and Young Persons Act 1933 – This is an older piece of legislation of which some parts are still in forced today. It includes a list of offences against children‚ these are referred to as Schedule One offences. The Children Act 1989 –The current child protection system is based on the Children Act 1989. The introduction
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legislation and the registered bodies to ensure your children get the best care possible whilst in my care. I have done so in a simple question and answer format‚ please don’t hesitate to ask me if you have further questions. There are many current legislations covering home based care and I will continue to update regulations‚ rules and currant laws but I have outlined the ones below which I feel are most relevant. These are as follows:- • The Children’s Act (1989) - to investigate cases or allegations
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currently set in place that childminder have to adhere to. The Children’s Act 2004 – This act provides the basis for how social services and other agencies deal with the issue relating to children. It arose from the Green paper “Every child matters” and identifies the following outcomes for all children. For children to be healthy and enjoy good physical and mental health in a healthy living lifestyle. Allow children to stay safe
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care or children and young people’s settings. Outcome 1 – 1.1/1.2 Legislation is a law that has been passed by a legislative body such as parliament. The legislation framework is one that is used by all professionals when working with or alongside children and families. All settings must have policies and procedures in place. A policy complies with the law and can be seen as a set of rules. Our policies mainly focus on the Children’s Act 2004‚ Every Child Matters 2004 and the Education Act 2002. In
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The main current legislations and guidelines that apply within England UK are: Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010 It provides statutory and non-statutory guidance to organisations and practitioners on how we should work together to safeguarding children. It applies to people who work in education‚ health and social care and also to the police and probation service. It states: • What abuse is and the impact of abuse and neglect • What better practise looks like • The roles and responsibilities
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Safeguarding the wellbeing of children and young people. 1 Policies and procedures for safeguarding and child protection in England and Wales are the result of the Children Act 1989. The Children Act 2004 introduced further changes to the way the child protection system is structured and organised. The Children Act 1989 makes it clear to anyone who works with children or young people what their duties and responsibilities are in a childcare setting and how they must work together with other practitioners
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because for children in risk every day matters‚ both the safeguarding agenda and academic research underline the damage that delayed intervention can cause and reinforce the importance of the joint working of professionals and institutions (DfE‚ 2013 and Broadhurst and Grover‚ 2009). For children‚ the areas in which they feel the need for more support are: in the provision of security‚ sense of belonging and trust and self-development (McAuley and David‚ 2009). Since the Children Act in 1989 safeguarding
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policies and procedures within UK home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people. Safeguarding is about promoting children’s welfare and putting measures in place to improve children’s safety and prevent abuse. As part of the safeguarding process it is necessary to take action when there is reasonable belief that a child is at risk of significant form. The children’s act 1989 This act makes the welfare children the most important consideration when any decisions are being made about
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