rights. -Professionals are expected to work together and in a co-operative way with parents. Impact of every child Matters (ECM) guidelines on the Children Act 2004. ECM came about as a result of the Laming report following the death of Victoria Climbie‚ some of the main recommendations being: -Closer working relationships between all agencies involved with children. -Establish a central database of all children’s records identifying if they are known to different services. -Establishment
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In your role as early years practitioner you will know that teamwork can sometimes be challenging. Multi-agency practice takes place where children spend most of their time and feel familiar – this could be a children’s centre‚ school‚ village hall‚ health centre etc. But it is important to understand what some of the barriers to effective working might be: • Lack of understanding of roles and responsibilities - Where people have been clearly trained for a role they may find it odd to be managed
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Understand the main legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people. 1.1 Current legislation made for safeguarding children and young people are; Children act 1989. The main aims of the Act are: • To bring together private and public law in one framework; • To achieve a better balance between protecting children and enabling parents to challenge state intervention; • To encourage greater partnership between statutory authorities and parents;
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includes promoting children’s safety and welfare as well as protecting children when abuse happens. It has only been developed in the past 50 years‚ and the need for improved legislation has been highlighted by cases such as Maria Colwell (1973) and Victoria Climbie (2000) as these cases showed weaknesses in procedures. The United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (1989) is an international human rights treaty that grants all children a comprehensive set of rights. The convention has 54 articles
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together when child abuse is suspected. Working Together to Safeguard Children (1999) This provides guidelines for professionals in England and Wales to help them work with children who are at risk of harm. Children Act 2004 The death of Victoria Climbie at the hands of her carers resulted in an independent inquiry‚ lead by the Lord Laming‚ into her death in 2003. The Laming Report led to the Green Paper Every Child Matters‚ Which in turn led to children act 2004 in England and similar bills
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patients need good communication so they can clearly understand each so the patient can receive the best possible care. Without good communication and interpersonal interaction there could be very serious outcomes‚ for example with the case of Victoria Climbie. She was being abused by her family and even though she visited her GP several times nobody noticed and because there was no communication she ended up dead. I think Multi-agency work could have saved Victoria’s life because if all the different
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towards children who are at risk of harm. Children Act 2004 By 2003 it was clear that services for children were still not working together to identify and protect vulnerable children in our society. This was highlighted by the death of Victoria Climbie at the hands of her carers‚ resulting in an independent inquiry into her death. The Laming report in 2003‚ in common with other inquires into child deaths over the years‚ criticised the approach to protecting children in are society. The Laming
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protection‚ and outlined the duties and responsibilities of those who worked with children‚ especially of those in events of allegations of child abuse. The Children Act 2004 came into force for many reasons starting with the unfortunate case of Victoria Climbie‚ where she died at the hands of her carers. This death bought about the Laming report in 2003‚ which criticised the approach of protecting children in our society. The Act forced services for children to start working together along with other
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young people. The Children Act of 1984 and 2004 set out the responsibilities of professionals working with children to report suspected abuse. Due to failures in the law to uphold the protection of vulnerable children (for example the death of Victoria Climbie in 2000) an Inquiry was carried out by Lord Laming resulting in The Every Child Matters initiative (ECM)‚ which made major changes in the Children Act in particular child protection policies. These covered children and young adults up to the
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Amanda Atkins ERR Assignment 08/12/11 Q. Describe the terms and conditions of your employment as set out in your contract of employment. A. During my employment with Casterbridge‚ they may need to hold personal data‚ details of criminal record and medical data. Casterbridge will ensure that this information is held securely in personnel files and will not disclose this information to others outside the operations department or line management structure‚ except in case
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