Safeguarding Children and Young People with Autistic Spectrum Disorder The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of current provisions for safeguarding children and young people with Autism‚ whilst paying attention to proposed and current legislation and reports/ policy initiatives from a UK and Welsh perspectives. The rationale for this paper is because the writer has a nine year old autistic child. All children’s welfare is underpinned by legislation‚ leaving parents and adults
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Unit 10 caring for children and young people assignment 2 of 2‚ report There are 3 types of maltreatment: abuse‚ neglect‚ bullying and harassment. Abuse can be physical‚ emotional (intellectual) and sexual. Signs of physical abuse are: * Unexplained injuries that sound untrue or doesn’t fit in with the injury * Injuries on a non-mobile baby or head injuries on a child who is less than one year old * Nervous behaviour‚ jumpy‚ watchful and cautious‚ scared of psychical contact – shrinking
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The Situation of Filipino Children and Young People Almost half of the population in the Philippines are children. With a fast population growth a year‚ the government has a difficult task in providing children with enough resources to ensure their rights. For many adults and children‚ a 15-year-old who bears a child willingly or unwillingly ceases to be a girl-child but a young mother. An 11-year-old who takes on the task of tilling the fields ceases to be a boy but a labouring farmhand. A 16-year-old
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Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people [TDA 2.2 1.1‚ 1.2] Understanding current legislation‚ policies and procedures is essential to ensure that safe guarding is carried out effectively. Knowing the risks ad possible consequences that children and young people can be affected by is important within a supporting role. It is also important to fully understand the responsibilities and when to take action. Legislations‚ guidelines and policies are put into place to help protect
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Understand How to Support Positive Outcome for Children and Young People. Outcome 2: Understand how practitioners can make a positive difference in outcomes for children and young people. Question 1: Identify the positive outcomes for children and young people that practitioners should be striving to achieve. As we already discussed this in one of the five outcomes in Every Child Matters. As a qualified child care worker I should be aware and make positive contribution in the entire are of child
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Asessment task – TDA 2.2 Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people Task 1 links to learning outcomes 1 and 3‚ assessment criteria 1.1‚ 1.2‚ 3.1‚ 3.2‚ 3.3‚ 3.4 and 3.5 Identify the current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people‚ including e-safety Within my workplace I am aware of the statutory and regulatory health and safety requirements for pupils‚ staff‚ families and visitors in the school. Health and safety
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“Normative Measure”. This is concerned with studying milestones or stages in a child’s development and show what most children can do at a particular age. In reality there is a wide range of normal development and this will be influenced by genetic‚ social‚ and cultural factors‚ so it is important to be aware that normative measures can only indicate general trends in children s development. Physical development By 6 months a child will: Turn their head toward sounds and movement Watch
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1.1 Describe the policies and procedures of the setting relevant to promoting children and young people’s positive behaviour. The school has a behaviour policy which includes the anti-bulling policy. The policy sets out the procedures for rewards and consequences these include the island system‚ Work of the week‚ the sports cup‚ the end of academic year awards. Consequences could be the nurture group‚ individual behaviour logs‚ parental involvement‚ catch up‚ exclusion‚ action from the governors
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The Concerns of Obesity in Children and Young People Introduction Fat adults are fat because they eat too much fatty food and do not get enough exercise. Fat children are healthy and cute. Fat teenagers are not. Fat people are funny. Fat people can lose weight if they really wanted to. These are just a few common perceptions the public have of people who are over their ideal body weight. What most people do not know is that being overweight or obese carry with it a myriad of health
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UNIT: TDA 2.2 SAFEGUARDING THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. Question 1. TDA 2.2: LEARNING OUTCOME 2.4 Describe in detail the actions that you would take response to the following emergency situations in your setting to include: • Fire • Security incidents • Missing children and young people *********************************************************************** EMERGENCY SITUATIONS FIRE: If i discovered a fire on the premises i would
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