There are different legislations and guidelines, policies and procedures that must be followed as these affect the safeguarding of children and young people. These are: - Children act - Female genital mutilation - Prevent duty (radicalisation) - Education act - Children and young people act - Protection of freedoms act There is a larger responsibility on the local authorities and those who they may work with such as schools and people that work alongside the local authority for the well being of children or a young person and also puts into place strategies policies and procedures to help promote the safeguarding of children and young people. However this act while finding and meaning strategies must be put in to place to protect children and young people it also means that more accountability is put onto agencies that could
o Everybody has the right to feel safe all the time, this includes families, children and staff o Children and families experience varying family contexts and situations and this should be acknowledge, understood and celebrated when appropriate - At this centre we respect everybody’s culture, experiences and their identity - Every person (children, families and educators) is treated with
Four key good working practices that help protect the child and the adult working with them are; working in an open and transparent way, listening to children and young people, propriety and behaviour, and power and positions of trust. Working in an open and transparent way is important as it means that a practitioner is not left totally alone and out of view with a child. The layout and set-up of a room or building can contribute to this. It is important to talk about different ways of working to ensure all staff are working in the most appropriate way.
It is important to have policies and procedures in an education and care setting because they provide an outline of the program the education and care services to the families, children and staff and/or educators. They are put into place to ensure the health, safety and the wellbeing of the children families and staff. An educator must demonstrate an understanding of the legal responsibility and obligations of their job. Well-developed policies and procedures provide clear guidelines to staff in relation to management and services. Without policies and procedures in the care and education setting there would be staff performing incorrect procedures which can impair in many ways from the child’s learning to the safety of the children, families
Young people feel safe and parents and professionals concur with this view overall. This is due to the action taken by staff to protect young people from risks associated with child sexual exploitation and radicalisation. Young people have significantly reduced the occasions that they go missing from the home, which maximises their safety because staff know where they are and can monitor them. When young people have left the home without authority, staff search for them and follow the agreed missing from care protocols. Staff effectively use the services of the independent advocate whose good rapport with the young people enables informal chats about the reasons why young people go missing.
Supervision and management is needed in any business or organisation for better assurance that roles and responsibilities are performed accurately, are taken place within a fixed period of time in order to achieve targets. In the health sector for instance, a care setting such as a care home, when a person talks about residents and workers, what come to mind is supervision and how residents are cared for by both direct and indirect care workers. A care setting such as a hospital is an organised and crucial setting that expends millions of money. Supervision is essential to assure that money invested is used effectively. The goals and visions of any care setting can be realised through proper supervision.
Safeguarding means protecting individual’s health, comfort as well as human rights including enabling them to live free from harm, abuse as well as neglect. It is important to high quality health and social care. Safeguarding adults includes: Defending their rights to live in security, free from abuse including neglect. Individuals as well as organisations working together to stop the risk of abuse as well as neglect, and to prevent them from happening. Making sure individual’s wellbeing is encouraged, taking their wishes, views, feelings including principles into account.
Introduction Child Protection Service practice is a concept and technique that has widely been established and integrated into the social work education and practice. This has long been the foundation of social work practice, many scholars thought and encourage its use in practice when working with children and families, in several types of settings. The Child Protection Service Practice Model provides a framework for guiding social workers in developing, implementing, and evaluating work efforts. This paper will look at how social workers Provides Protective services for their clients relating to profession of social work Ethic and theories. I will also explore the ethical theory in the Ministry of Social Service (MSS), as well as how, these
This means ensuring you are physically and emotionally healthy; you are responsible for meeting that baby’s needs. The child relies on you (as on his or her parents) to interpret communications and provide nurturing and responsive care. In addition, you are responsible for communicating with parents, other teachers and support staff, and meeting many other expectations within your setting. 2. Why is safety important to child development?
Preparation to Promote School Safety Strict supervision has to be
By continuing to drink and lose his temper Juan has placed himself into a difficult predicament where he is now dealing with the child welfare system. The child welfare system became involved because of the risk that Juan not only places onto the children and his wife, Maria, but also on himself due to his excessive drinking and anger. In addition to his anger and alcoholism, it was mentioned in the case study “the local child welfare authorities have become involved when it appeared that the children were not being properly supervised”. Considering the young age of the children, it is important that they are properly supervised to ensure that they are not doing something they may put themselves or the other children. It is also important to
Child Abuse: Preventive Technology In the growing era of technology, problems arise as the innovations increase. With the world at our fingertips it is hard to censor and protect the information that can be shared. In many cases, children become the victims of online solicitation. Various methods are being conducted in order to intercept and prevent these situations.
It makes sure that the school carries out risk assessments and makes adequate measures to reduce hazards and risks. At our school the member of staff designated to this constantly checks PE equipment to see if it is in safe working order. All fire exits are obstruction free and the art cupboard is correctly stacked so that it does not cause any
This form of abuse on children has been an area of concern for many years. This is mostly caused by adults on children with the idea of terrorizing and punishing the child. But many times physical abuse results from unsuitable and unrestricted authority. At times, the mother or father of the child may not realize the weightage of force with which he or she hits the child in anger. Sometimes the parent or caretaker who mistreated the child may not have had the intention to, but rather the child's injury must have resulted from cruel discipline and bodily punishment.
Parents want their children to be successful in their life, therefore, they do their best to bring them up well. Children are very innocent, they count on their parents to show them the right direction and its parent’s job if they raise them overprotected or teach them to live independently. Raising children is challenging for parents, and they have their own ways to raise them. However, there is a huge difference between overprotected and independent children in regard to their abilities, behavior and accomplishments. Independent children are more capable to make their own decision; they develop their own skills to make efforts to accomplish their goals because that’s what their parents have taught them.
