The 2nd Joint Chief Inspectors Report defined safeguarding children and young people as the act of taking reasonable measures to ensure that the threats of harm to children & young people’s welfare are diminished by all those who work with children. The document expressed that all agencies involve with the provision of services to children and young people should take appropriate actions to raise and address issues of concerns whilst working to agreed local policies and procedures established by Local Safeguarding Children Board, and in partnership with other local agencies to safeguard a child or young person. (CQC archive (2005) SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN The second joint Chief Inspectors’ Report on Arrangements to Safeguard Children. http://archive.cqc.org.uk/_db/_documents/04018472.pdf (accessed 22/08/1)3. In short all those that work with children & young people have a duty of care to safeguard and promote their wellbeing.…
Childrens Act 2004: The welfare of the child must be considered at all times and their rights and wishes should be taken into consideration.…
Every child should be supported and enabled to live in an environment which is free from prejudice and safe from abuse. Your responsibilities under the duty of care are to do everything reasonable within the description of your job role to make this happen. Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (2012 section 3, 3.1) states that “Children learn best when they are healthy, safe and secure, when their individual needs are met, and when they have positive relationships with the adults caring for them”.…
* A duty to inform the Independent Safeguarding Authority of any individual (paid employee, volunteer, or other) who poses a threat to children…
* Outcome 2: Children and young people should be able to stay safe: every child has a right to be protected from any harm or neglect that could happen to them.…
This influential piece of legislation arose from the Green Paper ‘Every Child Matters’ and identifies five outcomes for all children:…
516 1.1) The policies, procedures and practices for safe working with children and young people all stem from the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman by Ian Huntley. From this horrific act of evil the Safeguarding Vulnerable Group Act 2006 was born (see evidence ‘6’ – 520 1.3). Another public enquiry was set up to address the failure of the law after the death of Victoria Climbié. Within this enquiry, Lord Laming called for changes to be made in child protection policies. From this there was a new incentive born called ‘Every Child Matters’ in 2003. This became one of the most far reaching policy incentives to be released in the last 10 years. It covers children and young adults up to the age of 19 or 24 for those with disabilities. This also led to changes in the Children’s Act in 2004 and provided a detailed framework for working with children within multi agency partnerships. The themes that were adopted by all agencies working with children are –…
In 2002 the government came up with a new idea called the ‘Every Child Matters Policy’ which was aimed at children from newborn to 19 years and 24 years if they have a disability. The policy had 5 main principles: 1 – To be healthy, 2 – To stay safe, 3 – To enjoy & achieve, 4 – To make a positive contribution, 5 – To achieve economic well being, which was to be remembered by people who work with children to give them the best start in life.…
1. Understand the policies, procedures and practises for safe working with children and young people…
There is no one piece of legislation that underpins the safeguarding of children and young people in the United Kingdom but there are countless that are constantly being reviewed, changed or updated. From these many legislations, child care settings develop policies, according to the Oxford online dictionary a policy is ‘A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organisation or individual’. Policies are a guide for all those involved in the setting, to ensure and endorse the well-being of all families, children and staff and provide a common understanding of how these things should be done within the setting. Understanding the legislation involving children is vital to creating policies that are up to date, relevant, understandable and useable. In this essay I will be outlining some of the most up to date and important legislation that underpins the safeguarding of children.…
The formulation stage involves finding new ways of solving a certain problem. There could be many positive and negative solutions to the problem. Congress and the executive branch may find different approaches to solving the problem (pink monkey, 2010). It is at this point that contradictory proposals are often made. After a policy is put together it is them given to congress. An adoption process takes place after legislation is passed or regulations are finalized or a decision is passed by the Supreme Court (Pink monkey, 2010).…
The policy process is an ongoing event according to Kronenfeld (1997). When a policy is formulated there are two major parts; agenda setting and development of legislation. After these stages then the implementation stage begins. The way issues emerge can bring public awareness to a situation, such as the need for healthcare reform in the United States and eliminating the uninsured population. There are various stages of the policy process required to address this issue which include the formulation stage, legislative stage and the implementation stage.…
To pass this assessment, you must achieve a ‘Satisfactory’ result for each question. Where there are any gaps, further questioning and/or additional submissions may be required.…
Not everyone understands how the government works, there are many different branches, policies, rules and regulations that have to be followed. Individuals are not always aware of what the inner workings of our government are, and this can often be cause for confusion and frustration. Turning thoughts into policies and allowing those thoughts to be implemented is one of the most difficult procedures our government has. Understanding the inner workings of how an idea turns into a policy, can return a little bit of faith into our system, due to the unknown difficulty that policy creating can entail. There are three important phases to creating a policy - the formulation, legislative and implementation stage; each has their role, but they all affect each other in the creation of a policy.…
In today’s health care system it is constantly improving and changing, due to the demands of the health care system. For this to happen new policies must be created or even improving old policies. Congress is involved in the process of policy making; including three stages such as foundation stage, legislative stage, and implementation stage. When a health care topic is in process of becoming a policy it hopes to reach a desired outcome to have a positive effect on people. In the policy making model it has its strengths and limitations. Its strength is the reduction of complexity of policy making to manageable. The limitations of the policy making model is the linearly of the model. It is viewed as the last stage of the model overlapping with first stage, “where each step is considered as temporally and functionally distinct” (Metagora, 1995).…