the current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. These are as follows: • Children’s act 1098/2004 • Education act 2002 • E-safety 2008 • Safeguarding • Human rights act. And many more. The following is an outline of current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures within the UK Home Nation for Safeguarding Children. The United Nations Convention on the rights of a child 1989 was approved by the UK on the 16th
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to safeguard the well being of children The definition of safeguarding is “the process of protecting children from abuse or neglect‚ preventing impairment of their health and development‚ and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care that enables children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.”1 TASK 1 – legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies & procedures for safeguarding children Every element of a childcare
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Ensuring children and young people’s safety and welfare in the work setting is an essential part of safeguarding. While children are at school‚ practitioners act in ‘loco parentis’ while their parents are away. As part of their legal and professional obligations‚ practitioners hold positions of trust and a duty of care to the children in their school‚ and therefore should always act in their best interests and ensure their safety – the welfare of the child is paramount (Children Act 1989). The Children
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“There were over 91‚000 looked after children in the UK in 2012.” (www.nspcc.org.uk) in this task I am going to describe why children and young people may need to be looked after away from their families. There are many reasons that children and young people may need to be looked after away from their home‚ one of those are the child’s or young person’s parents. This may be down to bereavement of the parents meaning that they have died‚ if the parents have died then the child or young person will
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affecting the safeguarding of children and young people There are legislations‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures within the UK that are in place to help safeguard children and young people in the community. Some of these are; The Children Act 1989 This is an act to amend previous laws relating to children: To provide for local authority services for children in need and others: To make provision for those who foster‚ childmind and for day-care for young children and adoption. Also‚ for children’s
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MU 2.4: Contribute to children and young people’s health and safety 1.3- Explain what risk assessment is and how this is managed in the work setting. A risk assessment is a health and safety procedure‚ which requires a member of staff or line manager to carry out an examination; on what could cause danger and create harm to anyone within the work environment. During my time at One World nursery‚ a staff member would carry out a risk assessment every day; within their located room also there would
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solve the missing children problem in the United States. It is a good IRP topic because it is interesting. This topic is also significant because each case might mean a child is in danger. Additionally‚ this problem has been happening constantly over the pass few years‚ so there are many solutions to solve or to make some improvements. Step 2: Background research. Summarize the problem (2-3 sentences) According to the organization the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children‚ thirty years
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or sexual abuse‚neglect and failure the thrive not based on illness ‚or bullying and harassment. All in setting for children and young people in England and Wales qre the result of legislation passed in parliament‚including ‚England and Wales‚ the children Act 1989 and children Act 2004. These acts where brought in with the aim of simplifying the laws that protect children and young people .They tell people what their duties are and how they should work together when child abuse in suspected
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legislation and local guidelines which deal with safeguarding of children and young people. Create a simple summary of the key points of each. |Legislation/guidelines |Key points | | |This is a set of 54 articles included in those which ensure that children are safe and looked | |
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The main current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation for safeguarding children and young people. Before a member of staff can start employment with the company there are processes they must go through. A successful application form is followed by a through interview. During the interview an application for a criminal records bureau (crb) check is made once it has been deemed that the applicant has completed the criteria for employment the crb application
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