More than 200‚000 children are prosecuted in adult courts each year. All 50 states can prosecute a child‚ under the age of 16 years old‚ as an adult (Young & Gainsborough‚ 2000). Between 1992 and 1997‚ forty two states and the District of Columbia enacted legislation to enable juvenile offenders to be transferred to adult prisons (Young & Gainsborough‚ 2000). Missouri and Indiana lowered the minimum age for transfer to an adult facility from 16 years of age to the incredibly young age of ten (Flesch
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Communication and Professional Relationships with Children‚ Young People and Adults Study Pack Effective Communication and Professional Relationships with Children‚ Young People and Adults Study Pack 2011 Michelle Canning CACHE PIN: 30134483 CACHE No: 502.000 2011 Michelle Canning CACHE PIN: 30134483 CACHE No: 502.000 TDA 3.1 Communication and professional relationship with children‚ young people and adults. This pack has been produced to help people in a support role‚ raise awareness
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Unit 301 Principles of communication in adult social care settings Outcome 1 understand why effective communication is important in adult social care settings Identify the different reasons people communicate. Communication is a big factor when it comes to finding out key information about the service user. Having good communication skills helps build relationships with both service user and their families. We need to have good communication amongst our work colleagues who are involved in their
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policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 - which ensure that children are safe and looked after‚ children have the right to be protected from all forms of physical or mental violence‚ injury or abuse‚ neglect‚ negligent treatment‚ maltreatment or exploitation including sexual abuse by those looking after them. Children act 1989 Parents and professionals must work to ensure
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We must safeguard children and young people as they are unable to protect themselves alone and are far more vulnerable to things such as abuse and neglect than adults are. It is our duty of care to protect children and young people from physical abuse‚ emotional abuse‚ sexual abuse‚ verbal abuse and neglect. We must be able to identify early on the signs and symptoms of abuse or neglect before the child is to get in any serious danger. A child’s sudden change in behaviour could be a huge sign of
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the policy for their own file. 4.1 Explain the policies and procedures of the setting or service in response to accidents‚incidents‚emergencies and illness. The policies and procedures of the setting relevant to promoting children’s and young peoples positive behaviour covers a range of
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Children and Young People’s Core Unit CYP M3.7: Understand how to support positive outcomes for children‚ and young people |Title |Unit 3.7: Understand how to support positive outcomes for children and young people | |Level |3 | |Credit value |3
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CCLD MU 2.4 CCLD MU 2.4 Contribute to children and young people’s health and safety Title Level Credit value Learning outcomes The learner will: Contribute to children and young people’s health and safety 2 3 Assessment criteria The learner can: 1. Know the health and safety policies and procedures of the work setting 1.1 Outline the health and safety policies and procedures of the work setting 1.2 Identify the lines of responsibility and reporting for health and safety in the work setting
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Unit 1; Q2.1 –Understand the kinds of influences that affect children and young people’s environment. Q 2.1 Describe‚ with examples the kinds of influences that affect children and young people’s development including: a) Background Pupils may come from a wide range of different family environments‚ cultures and circumstances for example their parents may come from a foreign country and have different religious beliefs. This may affect the child as they will be taught something different at
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together for the benefit of children and young people. Multi agency working- different services working together to meet the needs of young children and their parents or carers. Integrated working- different services joining together to offer more affective care for young children. Understanding integrated and multi agency working. Multi agency working‚ is different services and agencies‚ that work together to provide the services that meet the needs of children‚ parents and carers. Nursery
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