The general objectives of the Health And Safety Act 1974 are: * To secure the health‚ safety and welfare of employees at work. * To protect people other than employees at work against risks to their health and safety arising from work activities. * The control of release into the atmosphere of noxious or offensive substances from premises which may also come under the scope of the Environmental Protection Legislation. * To identify hazards in the workplace and carry out risk assessments and
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Safe Guarding Children’s Policy Policy As a registered childminder my policy has been developed in accordance with the principles established by the children’s act 1989 and 2004. My first responsibility and priority is towards the children in my care‚ and I understand that child abuse can be physical‚ sexual‚ emotional‚ neglect or a mixture of these. I must notify Ofsted of any allegations of abuse‚ which are alleged to have taken place while the child is in my care. This includes any person
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1.1 Identify the current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. The Children Act 1989 (England and Wales) These acts were brought in with aim of simplifyinh the laws that protect children and young people. They tell people what their duties are and how they should work together when child abuse is suspected. Working Together to Safeguard Children (1999) This provides guidelines for professionals in England and Wales to
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Box 1 4.1: Setting’s 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
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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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1:Understand child and young person development 1 Understand the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth to 19 years. 1.1 Explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of development from birth -19 years: Children’s development is continuous. They can develop at different time because they have different life experiences and that means that they develop at different rate and ways. Development does not mean only the physical growth of the children but also include
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1) Describe how current health and safety legislation‚ policies and procedures are implemented in the setting. There are several key pieces of legislation that impact on how schools manage the health and safety of both their employees‚ and others who come into contact with the school e.g pupils‚ support workers and parents. These pieces of legislation are: The Health and Safety at Work‚ etc Act 1974 This act places the responsibility of ensuring the health and safety and welfare of employees
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Workshop Make sure you do not come to my lesson without First lesson 12:45 – 2:00 – P2‚ M1‚ D1 · A print out of your legislation/ regulator – and an A4 handout with bullet points to photocopy and distribute to the rest of the group (P2‚ D1) Second Lesson 2:15 – 3:30 M1 / D1 · A SAFEGUARDING policy from a nursery / school/ hospital/ college preferably nursery or school (M1) · 2 job descriptions one from Health and one from Social
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Safeguarding looks at protecting children and young people‚ this is does mean protecting them from just direct abuse but from a wider role and making sure that they are staying safe and that they come to no harm. The staying safe action plan looks at; keeping the children and young people from accidents‚ bullying and crime‚ forced marriages and action promotion of welfare and a healthy safe environment. Child protection focuses on protecting children from suffering any abuse‚ harm or neglect
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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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