is much more to Safeguarding than just protecting children from direct abuse. Any service that works with children and young people knows that they have a much wider responsibility than simply protecting the children from neglect and abuse. An action plan was put in place by Her Majesty’s Government called the ‘Stay Safe’ action plan‚ and it identifies a number of important features in the wider view of safeguarding including: • Keeping children safe from accidents • Crime and bullying - This could
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legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people. Outcome 1 “Safeguarding is not just about protecting children from abuse. It protecting children from maltreatment‚ preventing the impairment of children’s health or development‚ ensuring that children’s health or development‚ ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances that provide safe and effective car and helping children to have the best life chances so that they can enter adult hood successfully
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emphasise “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
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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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What is Child Abuse? Child abuse is when someone does something to you or your body that you don’t want them to do. There are several type of abuse:- Physical abuse - an adult deliberately hurts you by causing cuts‚ bruises‚ broken bones or other injuries. Physical abuse includes hitting‚ shaking‚ throwing‚ poisoning‚ burning‚ and slapping. Physical abuse involves physical harm or injury to the child. It may be the result of a deliberate attempt to hurt the child‚ but not always. It can also
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with specific reference to Vowell’s text. Your essay should include your own defensible thesis statement and reasons and examples from your studies‚ experience‚ or observations that develop and support it. OR Question 2. In her essay “Shooting Dad”‚ Sarah Vowell describes her shift from focusing on her and her father’s differences to focusing on their similarities. This shift allows her to prioritize their relationship over their disagreements. In your experience‚ is this a common evolution
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and video-sharing sites. Images and videos can be loaded from cameras and mobile phones. Some mobile devices enable users to upload images and videos directly to social networking sites. It is very important that children and young people consider and choose carefully what they share online with friends and the wider community on the Internet‚ especially as photos can be easily copied and changed. The convenience of mobile phones means it is easy to upload images and videos ‘on the
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Understand how children from birth-5 years learn through play Piaget Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was one of the first psychologist to study the cognitive and language development of children. When working on their theory Piaget had discovered that children discover and think in different ways to adults‚ this was then how Piaget carried out observations to find out how children develop their reasoning and thinking skills. Stage and approximate age Description of age How this influences play 0-2 years
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ASSIGNMENT 026 Understand How to Safeguard the Well-being of Children and Young People Task B : Roles and Responsibilities of Organisations • Social Services Social Workers have a responsibility to provide support and care for vulnerable children and their families. They may have been alerted to a particular situation for example; if parents are struggling to care for their children or there are other challenging situations such as drug abuse‚ domestic violence and reports of abuse
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the development needs of children and young people Outcome 1 – Be able to contribute to assessments of the development needs of children and young people (1.1) Share your EYFS assessment records and observations with your assessor For confidentiality reasons these records are kept in the office in a locked cabinet. Assessor to confirm that observations are carried out in all areas of development (1.2) List different observation methods and give and explanation of how they are used Diary: a daily
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