Identify the current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedure for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people‚ including e-safety. *** Answer submitted on Apr 7 2013 4:55PM *** Every Child Matters 2005: This was put into place to ensure all organisations and agencies invoved with children between birth and 19 years should work together to ensure that children have the support needed to be healthy‚ safe‚ enjoy and achieve and make a positive contribution and achieve economic
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To be convicted of an offence in South Australia‚ the defendant must have possessed certain cognitive‚ voluntary and moral capacities at the time they committed the criminal act. Currently‚ the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 (SA) defines a mental impairment as not knowing the nature and quality of the conduct‚ did not know the conduct was wrong‚ or unable to control the conduct at the time of the offense. There are multiple Forensic Mental Health Facilities within South Australia‚ however only
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We have recently interviewed family and friends involved in the Harcourt tragedy on the 3-1-2008. A tragedy that happened because‚ once again like so many other times someone jumped into their car and drove after consuming alcohol‚ putting their own and all other passengers lives at risk. How many times have we seen the news coverage of these horrible wastes of life in the carnage on our roads? And we will keep seeing it until people get the message “don’t drink and drive”. Brenton Chaplin and
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To me there are people that are born and eventually have problems in which they soon become insane. Others may call them insane but to me they are no different than anyone else. People are never born insane there is always something or a choice they choose to do that makes them insane. We cannot claim someone is insane just because they are different than you and if they are insane we should not judge them. We are no one to judge to anyone. There are others that are considered insane from many other
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Hamlet’s mind at first glance is not all it appears to be. One would believe Hamlet to be completely insane with everything that had transpired against him. The loss of his father and his mother’s hasty marriage should have driven his mind to utter desolation and insanity‚ but on the contrary these events only enhanced the fortitude of his mind and intellect. Hamlet’s ability to form coherent thoughts and his clear use of diction express his sanity; the weight of avenging his father’s death and
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Hamlet: Insane or Not? The story of Hamlet is undoubtedly one of the most famous stories in the whole wide world of literature. It features everything one would wish for in a tale: death‚ love‚ injustice‚ revenge‚ doubt‚ and eventually‚ (in)sanity. How is it with the latter‚ though? Was the main protagonist of Shakespeare’s most famous play a real madman? Was he faking lunacy to baffle the others? Or did periods of sanity and insanity fluctuate throughout the course of the story? These are the
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ASIS Disaster Preparation Guide ASIS International DISASTER PREPARATION GUIDE ASIS International (ASIS) is the preeminent organization for security professionals‚ with more than 33‚000 members worldwide. Founded in 1955‚ ASIS is dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and productivity of security professionals by developing educational programs and materials that address broad security interests‚ such as the ASIS Annual Seminar and Exhibits‚ as well as specific security topics
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency‚ or FEMA‚ was created to solve a dire need in America. Disasters‚ unfortunately‚ happen all the time‚ and we as a country need to be prepared to handle them and have a system in place to provide relief after the fact. Throughout the 1960s and 70s‚ a series of disasters struck the nation and those in charge realized that America was poorly suited to help. In 1964‚ the second most powerful earthquake ever recorded hit Alaska‚ killing 139 (Taylor). The Midwest
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How can someone be claimed as insane? In the case of Andrea Yates‚ she was found not guilty by reasons of insanity. Clearly Andrea Yates was insane because of what she did. Andrea Yates murdered her five children. Andrea Yates has thought about killing her children for quite a while before she really did kill her children. Her husband Rusty Yates knew about his wife trying to kill their children and caught Andrea before she did it the first time. Andrea Yates attempted to kill her kids before and
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One of the things that I found interesting in this chapter was the different tests used for the insanity plea. The first one was the M’Naghten test. It is a widely used legal test for insanity that holds people to be insane at the time they committed a crime if‚ because of a mental disorder‚ they did not know the nature of the act or did not know right from wrong. The second test discussed was the irresistible impulse test.: It is a legal test for insanity that holds people to be insane at the time
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