Health and safety legislation Staff to pupil ratio Specific legal requirements for ratios of adults to children that all early years providers must meet. These specific legal requirements have the force of regulations and therefore must be complied with by all early years providers. These legal requirements reflect the needs of the children in their care and are appropriate to their setting. Children under two.... * In a child care setting there should be at least one member of staff
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Health and Safety Legislation 1. Reporting of Injuries‚ Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences (RIDDOR) 1995 RIDDOR came into force on the 1st of April 1996 and requires you to report some work-related accidents‚ disease and dangerous occurrences to the Health and Safety Executive. Major injuries include: * Fracture / break other than to fingers‚ thumbs or toes * Amputation * Dislocation of the shoulder‚ hip‚ knee or spine * Loss of sight Dangerous occurrences include:
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the wellbeing of children and young people. Outcome 1 – Understand the main legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people. The safe guarding of children has only been developed in the last 50 years. However it is a vital part of working with children. The legislations‚ guidelines and policies for safeguarding are updated all the time for the best interest of the children. The current legislations are as follows; * The Children Act 1989 – this act
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the welfare of children and young people 1.1 Safeguarding legislations: Health and safety policy Healthy and safety at work act (1974) Every child matters framework (covered on page 20) Working together to safeguard children (2006 and 2010) Safeguarding policy Children act (1989 and 2004) Child protection policy E-safety Children Act: The Children’s Act came in to force in 1989 and was drafted complement the Human Rights Act but be specific to children. The act puts into
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1.1 Analyse the difference between coaching and mentoring Coaching and mentoring use the same skills and approach but coaching is short term task-based and mentoring is a longer-term relationship. What is coaching? Coaching: helping another person to improve awareness‚ to set and achieve goals in order to improve a particular behavioural performance. It consists of one-to-one developmental discussions. It provides people with feedback on both their strengths and weaknesses. It is aimed
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the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) The UNCRC is an international human rights treaty that grants all children and young people under the age of 18 years a set of comprehensive rights. The UK signed to this legally binding act in 1990 and rectified it in 1991‚ this means the UK is required to implement legislation to support each of the 54 articles. These included: 1. The right to life‚ survival and development. 2. The right to freedom of expression‚ thought and association. 3. The right to live
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and cultural factors that effect development The social factors that can affect the way in which a child or young person develop are firstly peoples views within society especially for disabled people they are pre judges and discriminated against because of their disability because of this they are being marginalised from society and excluded from such things like social events. Young person that are in the care system can be affected as they are not having consistency within their life at any
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Types of rights Children’s rights are defined in numerous ways‚ including a wide spectrum of civil‚ cultural‚ economic‚ social and political rights. Rights tend to be of two general types: those advocating for children as autonomous persons under the law and those placing a claim on society for protection from harms perpetrated on children because of their dependency. These have been labeled as the right of empowerment and as the right to protection.[13] One Canadian organization categorizes children’s
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1.1 Describe the factors to take into account when planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services When planning health and safety for indoor and outdoor environments you need to know the age group and ability of each child you are planning for. For example if you are planning for children who are completely mobile the layout of the room/ outside space must be different to those who have just learnt to walk or are not mobile at all. In our setting we have separate rooms
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208 Support children and young people’s health and safety Learning outcomes: 1 Know the legislative and policy framework for health and safety 2 Recognise and manage risks to children and young people’s health‚ safety and security 3 Support children and young people to assess and manage risk 4 Respond to emergency situations Resources Copy of the Health and Safety policy/procedure for your school Outcome 1 Describe how current health and safety legislation
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