The importance of safeguarding children and young people All adults‚ and in particular those who work with children‚ have a responsibility to safeguard children and young people from harm. We need to recognise that we have a duty to ensure arrangements are in place for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children in our care. We need to carry out this duty through our teaching and learning‚ pastoral care and extended school activities. All members of the school community‚ including volunteers
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Policies and procedures can be time consuming to write from scratch. Local authorities hold a standard set of policies and procedures which they have developed for schools to adopt and tailor to make them specific to the individual setting. Policies and procedures need to be kept up to date by a rolling set of periodic reviews. It is important that policies are dated‚ review dates noted on them and that the reviews are held in a timely manner to ensure that the documents do not fall out of date.
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I will relate to a case study. I will provide a definition of abuse using both sociological and psychological perspectives to contribute to our understanding of the causes of abuse. I will define the types‚ indicators‚ signs and symptoms of abuse and its impact on families and individuals‚ identifying factors relevant to the case study‚ recognising and explaining current legislation making reference to Government reports/inquiries and research into failures to protect from harm and abuse. I will
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There is no single piece of legislation that covers child protection or safeguarding in the UK but there are a number of laws that are continually being amended and updated. The Childrenâ€TMs Act 1989 provides the most comprehensive framework for the care and protection of children and it centres on the welfare of children up to their 18th birthday. This act defines parental responsibility and encourages partnership working with parents and interagency co-operation. The Childrenâ€TMs Act 2004 has
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action that need to be made is the responsibly of somebody else. Safeguarding is the responsibility of everyone. According to Gov.uk (2014) safeguarding is a term used to describe how adults and children are protected from various types of abuse and neglect. It is a key responsibility of local authorities as well as a shared priority of many public services including clinicians‚ social workers‚ care managers‚ specialist safeguarding staff and the police. England.nhs.uk (2017) states that multidisciplinary
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INTRODUCTION Identify theft refers to any fraud that takes form of pretence to be someone else with a motivation of stealing money or to get any other benefits. The use of the term identity theft is actually a misnomer because it is difficulty to steal individual identity. One can only use identity theft but not really steal it. The main aim of identity theft is to gain individual identity in order to use it for monetary or any other benefit. On the other hand‚ an individual whose identity is
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the constant change of society and it is unfortunate to say that it is us who has created the troubles. It is important that Earth stays healthy and we can always do our part to protect planet Earth. “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” So goes the ancient Native American’s saying‚ a phrase that we should always keep in mind. Despite being uttered more than about a century ago‚ these words still ring true and have become even more relevant in this day
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appropriate adult under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 during police interviews of young people. Writing reports and attending court to present reports as an ‘officer of the court’. The local authority will be notified by the police if the decision is taken to prosecute a young person. The local authority must provide support for a child or young person awaiting trial or disposal. Social workers may be involved with the families of prisoners
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Research the policy and guidance impacting on support services at national level and evaluate how this operates at local level The government wants children and young people to have more opportunities to get involved in the design‚provision and evaluation of policies and services that affect them or which they use.Minister will be looking to their individual departments and agencies to develop robust but realistic arrangement to make sure this happens.Actively involving children and young people
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children and young people |CYP3.4 1.1 Outline current legislation guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people. Legislation covering child protection can be divided into two main types‚ criminal law‚ dealing with people who have offended or are at risk of offending against children‚ and civil law‚ which is divided into public law and private law. Public law puts in place systems and processes in order to minimise the risk of children coming to harm and lays
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