is much more to Safeguarding than just protecting children from direct abuse. Any service that works with children and young people knows that they have a much wider responsibility than simply protecting the children from neglect and abuse. An action plan was put in place by Her Majesty’s Government called the ‘Stay Safe’ action plan‚ and it identifies a number of important features in the wider view of safeguarding including: • Keeping children safe from accidents • Crime and bullying - This could
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prescriptive about how a safe environment can be achieved. The obvious starting point is to ensure that basic principles are being followed; for example‚ no matter how good the security of a building is‚ the doors must be closed properly in the first place‚ otherwise all other efforts are likely to be worthless. The message that safety begins with individuals taking responsibility for simple things cannot be overemphasised. Next‚ a safe environment meets its registration requirements; there are two registers
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P2 Outline the arrangements for providing quality care for looked after children and young people This report will introduce the types of care provisions that are available for children and young people. The report will outline what the different types of care provisions include What they do and why they do it. Key information that will be addressed include the following care provisions; ∙ Foster Care ∙ Residential Care ∙ Respite Care ∙ Adoption Within this report you
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Unit D6011696: Support Children and Young People ’s Health and Safety. . Learning Outcome 1: Understand how to plan and provide environments and services that support children and young people’s health and safety. 1.1 In order to ensure a safe and healthy environment and services for children/young people there are some factors which need to be taken into account. These include any equipment which they will be in contact with‚ such as electrical equipment‚ anything which may pose a fire risk
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MU 2.2: Contribute to the support of child and young person development 1.2. Identify different observation methods and know why they are used Different methods of observations are appropriate for different situations. Narrative (AKA running records). This methods are the ones where you write at the time what children are doing‚ notice something interesting‚ or are looking for a specific skill or area of development‚ simply writing down what you see as is happening. This method is used
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environment for play and give the children the opportunity to have a wide range of play experiences. Every child is different so each child will respond in different ways to play‚ whereas some children may like doing the same thing for a long time‚ others may want to change what they are playing with after a short length of time. Some children may not like certain activities or toys so it is important to be flexible when planning the activities so that the children can develop their own interests‚
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ASSIGNMENT 026 Understand How to Safeguard the Well-being of Children and Young People Task B : Roles and Responsibilities of Organisations • Social Services Social Workers have a responsibility to provide support and care for vulnerable children and their families. They may have been alerted to a particular situation for example; if parents are struggling to care for their children or there are other challenging situations such as drug abuse‚ domestic violence and reports of abuse
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1.4 Explain how current health and safety legislation‚policies and procedures are implemented in own work setting or service. A schools Health and safety policy should conform to the requirements contained in the Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. Specifically the policy should contain :- a) a General Statement of commitment to H&S‚ signed by Head/Chair of Governors or indicating that it has been endorsed by the committee of the Governing Body which has responsibility for H&S; b) details
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Medical Decision Making http://mdm.sagepub.com/ Do Patient Decision Aids Meet Effectiveness Criteria of the International Patient Decision Aid Standards Collaboration? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Annette M. O ’Connor‚ Carol Bennett‚ Dawn Stacey‚ Michael J. Barry‚ Nananda F. Col‚ Karen B. Eden‚ Vikki Entwistle‚ Valerie Fiset‚ Margaret Holmes-Rovner‚ Sara Khangura‚ Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas and David Rovner Med Decis Making published online 14 September 2007 DOI: 10.1177/0272989X07307319
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Explain how to monitor children and young people’s development using different methods. Child development is a complex and multifaceted process which is dominated by several personal and external factors. It is very important for professionals working with children to assess that every child follows an expected pattern and reaches full potential. In order to achieve this professionals‚ have to observe children in different situations. Qualified professionals do observe children in educational setting
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