encouraging‚ enabling‚ stimulating and ensuring the safe keeping of the children • Provision of refreshments‚ encouraging healthy eating and promoting a healthy lifestyle • To implement and update policies and procedures in line with Ofsted and NCMA guidance. • To work towards assessment against a nationally recognised quality assurance scheme. Health and Safety To ensure a safe environment for children including • Risk assessments should be carried out for each room that
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TDA 2.2 Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people 1.1 When working with children and young people there are many legislations‚ guidelines and policies in place that ‘safeguard’ them including E-safety. These acts are constantly evolving and amended to improve the lives and safety of every child. The United Nations convention on the rights of rights of the child (UNCRC)‚ (1989) although not legislation provides a full list of comprehensive rights ALL children should expect. These rights
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in our organisation’s child protection procedures‚ to act in order that the appropriate agencies can investigate and take any necessary action to protect a child. Preventing child abuse is considered a high priority‚ and detailed laws and policies exist to address this issue. The Children Act 1989 ‘the welfare of the child is paramount’ it gave every child the right to protection from abuse and exploitation and the right to enquiries to safeguard their welfare’. Also in this year 1989 The United Nations
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-3.1 Identify the characteristics of different types of child abuse. There are four categories of abuse: - Physical‚ Neglect‚ Emotional and sexual. Physical Abuse Physical abuse is the intentional deliberate use of physical force or violence to hurt or injure a child. It may include slapping‚ punching‚ pulling hair‚ hitting‚ beating with objects‚ burning with cigarettes/cooker rings‚ scalding‚ shaking‚ biting‚ squeezing‚ cutting‚ throwing‚ poisoning‚ attempting to suffocate/drown or giving inappropriate
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Support Children and Young People’s Health and Safety Outcome 1 1) When planning for young people you need to take several factors into account to make sure the environment and services are safe. The first factor is the individual needs‚ ages and abilities of the children and young people. This requires you to work out staff to children ratio’s to make sure there is legally enough staff for the number of children present and to ensure all children will have supervision. Ratio numbers will
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Children and Young People Workforce Introduction to personal development in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings Understand what is required for competence in own work role 1) Describe the duties and responsibilities of own role? It’s very important for me to know what my manager is expected from me .My responsibility is to know my own duties and rules. Job description must be the first thing I need to look at and have a good knowledge about it. Showing my ability
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outline of the current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people. Ans. There are many legislative acts that affect the safeguarding of children and young people. These are: • Children Act 1989 (England and Wales)/Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995: This act outlined the duties all who worked with children and they should coordinate in the event of allegations of child abuse. • Children Act 2004: This
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C U 1 5 1 2 Contribute to children and young people’s Health and Safety 1.1 Outline the health and safety policies and procedures of your work setting. My work setting follows the laws and standards set by the Health and Safety Act 1974:- * Ensure that the environment is safe‚ secure with high quality of hygiene practices for staff‚ children and their families and any member of the public while using the premises. * Impose a total ban of smoking in the nursery indoor/ outdoor
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health and safety policies and procedures Legislation and regulations guide practitioners how they must work within the nursery. They are also important because they communicate to practitioners how the nursery should run. The nursery must interpret the law and the regulations that apply to them. Settings do this by inventing policies that explain how the setting will work in line with the law and the regulations. Policies also let other professionals‚ parents/carers and children know how
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CYPCORE 3413 Identify sources of current guidance for planning healthy and safe environments All settings should have copies of the latest legislation and guidance as well as their own policies and procedures. Health & safety executive: HSE is the national independent watchdog for work-related health‚ safety and illness. They are an independent regulator and act in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces Health and Safety at Work Act
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