Safeguarding Policy Safeguarding refers to keeping children safe – protecting them from harm/abuse‚ unsafe circumstances and impaired health/development‚ ensuring that they have the best possible opportunities in their lives. As a childminder it is my responsibility to ensure the safety and welfare of all children in my care. In doing so‚ I must:- • Keep a confidential written record of any warning behavioural indicators/changes‚ signs/symptoms giving cause for concern. I will use
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The term ‘child protection’ is now more likely to be replaced by that of safeguarding. This means that most people will speak of ’safeguarding’ a child rather than ’child protection’ of a child. This may be because the term ’Safeguarding’ has a much broader definition of the wide-ranging ways in which adults and professionals working with children and young people need to act when managing child protection issues. It covers more of the ways in which adults and professionals work together to ensure
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Parents Seniors & Retirees Students Small Business/Self-Employed Industries/Professions International Taxpayers Self-Employed Small Business/Self-Employed Home Other International Individual Topics Alien Taxation - Certain Essential Concepts Classification of Taxpayers for U.S. Tax Purposes Determining Alien Tax Status Employees of Foreign Governments or International Organizations Income from Abroad is Taxable New Developments in International Taxation Special Categories of Alien
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more than a few minutes if the blood pH drops or rise from the normal blood pH. If the blood pH is not in the normal blood pH‚ the person can fall sick and it might be harm to the person. The maintenance of blood pH is called acid-base homeostasis. Acid-base homeostasis is a complex synergy that involving lungs‚ kidneys and a buffer chemical in blood and blood cells. BACKGROUND A substance that has high concentration of hydrogen ion in solution is called acid and solution that has low concentration
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human development theories are • Behavioural • Psychoanalytical • Humanistic • Post Modern 2. Explain the concept of nature versus nurture. Nature is the biological qualities that an individual inherits from his parents through conception and nurture is the environmental factors and experiences that influence the individual from birth. 3. Explain the concept of genetic inheritance and how it applies to counselling. Genetic inheritance defines the inborn biological traits
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Whilst working in a childcare setting‚ all members of staff must follow the safeguarding policy. At my setting the main points are health and safety‚ equality/inclusion and child protection. Checking for hazards‚ both indoors and outdoors‚ is a crucial part of health and safety when working with children. At my placement‚ the staff do a risk assessment every morning before the children come in. This includes the garden as well as every room in the setting. By doing this‚ they are ensuring the safety
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Essay Describe and evaluate the synaptic homeostasis model of sleep The synaptic homeostasis model of sleep (Tononi & Cirelli‚ 2003) explains memory consolidation as a by-product of synaptic downscaling that occurs during sleep. This essay will describe the synaptic homeostasis model of sleep and evaluate how valid its predictions are in the face of empirical research. According to this model‚ synaptic potentiation is associated with the homeostatic regulation of slow wave activity‚ which
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There are two forms of homeostasis‚ positive feedback and negative feedback. The type of feedback which is most common is negative feedback. This works by making the levels that have changed return back to normal. Positive feedback is the least common type of feedback. This is where one component escalates to another which continues to escalate to another. In positive feedback the level of control the component does not return to normal straight away. Negative feedback is usually what happens inside
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Question 1: Describe factors the guide decision making and explain how overconfidence‚ belief perseverance and framing can affect judgement. When we make decisions we do so usually using concepts which are mental groupings of similar things (Myers & Dewall‚ 2004‚ p. 357). We draw our concepts from prototypes which are out best mental representation of something within a grouping. When I am at work‚ and a guest would like a room key‚ instead of asking the guest all of the names on the arrivals to
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Explain the concept of socialization and how useful is it in understanding human behavior? Socialization is the process in which an individual learns the way of life of his/her society‚ learn the trick of the trade and develops the capacity and the potential to function both as an individual and as a member of the society by internalizing the culture in which the society is based on. Socialization is a life-long process occurring at all stages in life starting from the day the individual is born
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