Unit 3: Understand how to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Children and Young People 1.1 Outline current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people. The Child Act 1989 was introduced to protect to children and young people from sufficient harm‚ neglect and abuse. I am aware of the laws that look after children and young people as it is necessary within my job description. The education Act work together as well it
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Understand How to Support Positive Outcome for Children and Young People. Outcome 2: Understand how practitioners can make a positive difference in outcomes for children and young people. Question 1: Identify the positive outcomes for children and young people that practitioners should be striving to achieve. As we already discussed this in one of the five outcomes in Every Child Matters. As a qualified child care worker I should be aware and make positive contribution in the entire are of child
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Describe the importance of play and leisure for children and young people. Wales is the only country in the world to have a policy about play‚ part of it says; “play is the elemental learning process by which humankind has developed. Children exhibit a behavioural imperative and instinctive desire to play. It has contributed significantly to the evolutionary and developmental survival of our species. Children use play in the natural environment to learn of the world they inhabit with others. It
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Why do young people participate in behaviours that put them at risk? Young people may participate in risk taking behaviours for a number of reasons. Peer influence is one factor that may encourage young people to put themselves at risk. This is because if an individual witnesses their peers actively engaging with risky behaviour‚ they may identify the behaviour as positive rather than taking into consideration the consequences. It has been found that young people identify alcohol with positive social
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Marginalized young people 1) Write a summary of “The forces that turned Baba around” in about 150 words. This text deals with a boy named Babatunde Olejide who describes himself as “A bit of a bad boy”. He has gotten into a lot of trouble at his school‚ because he had vandalised school property‚ been truanting and getting into fights. By the time he was 12-years-old he had been suspended from his school 5 times. Therefore he was given the offer to join a program created by the former British
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In Australia‚ 28% of children attend long-day child-care and 18% attend family day care‚ with more than 177 000 children using long-day child-care centres in 1996. Long-day child-care is defined as formal child-care that is provided in a centre for a minimum of eight hours per day‚ five days per week. The food eaten by children during long-day child-care makes an important contribution to their overall nutritional intake at a time that is critical for physical and mental development. Formal
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How to Prevent Obesity in Adults and Young Children Obesity is a growing concern in today’s society; however‚ it is a disease that can be prevented through simple changes in lifestyle. Obesity is defined as being grossly overweight. Benson‚ J. (2009‚ August) (p2) in his article states that obesity is a condition that affects individuals of all ages worldwide. There are many contributing factors to being obese‚ with the main ones being the consumption of junk food‚ lack of a proper diet and exercise
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young people and alcohol the role of cultural influences young people and alcohol the role of cultural influences An examination of the cultural drivers of risk-taking behaviour and their effects on ‘low risk’‚ ‘risky’ and ‘high risk’ use of alcohol among 14-24 year old Australian drinkers Ann M. Roche‚ Petra Bywood‚ Joseph Borlagdan‚ Belinda Lunnay‚ Toby Freeman‚ Lisa Lawton‚ Amanda Tovell‚ Roger Nicholas Roche‚ A.M.‚ Bywood‚ P.T.‚ Borlagdan‚ J.‚ Lunnay‚ B.‚ Freeman‚ T.‚ Lawton‚ L.
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eventually mastered. Why then do we expect children to be able to communicate with us correctly all of the time? Working with children requires us to build positive relationships with them quickly‚ but also in ways that are professional. The quality of the relationships that we have with children and young people has a huge effect on the way in which we can work with them. Positive relationships with children and young people are important as when children feel comfortable they can separate more
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the energy of the Yaouth is channelised in right manner towards lofty goals then the nation can certainly benefit from the process. If any section of the society in any country is most important for change‚ again it is the young people. Patriotism comes naturally to young people‚ but they also respond early to the call of Internationalism. The hopes of the youth are: 1. A world free of poverty‚ unemployment‚ inequality and exploitation of man by man. 2. A world free of discrimination on the grounds
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