Safeguarding and Protecting the Children
a)Safeguarding – this terms has replaced the term child protection. It includes promoting children’s safety and welfare as well as protecting children when abuse happens.This term of safeguarding has been developed in the last 50 years. Child Protection is the organisation which protects the child and his development needs, fallows and supervise the parent’s job on their child and all the factors which surround the child from birth till he become a major one. This organisation works with others organisations, like voluntary ones, and protects the rights of the child and his welfare. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) is a set of 54 articles. These rights make sure that the child is protected from abuse any kind of injury or negligent treatment, exploitation and the free right to express himself as a child. The children act 1989 concentrate on the responsibilities of parents and professionals who must work for assuring the safety of the child. The local authority and the local services have to investigate if there is a reason that a child is suffering from any harm. The education act 2002 includes the responsibilities for the Local Education Authority (LEAs), head-teachers, and all the staff from the school to provide protection for the child. Policies which safeguard the child must appear in any school and will include the safety, security and well-being of their pupils. Policies have to incorporate the safeguarding and protecting, procedures for reporting and e-safety. The Department for Education (DfE) offers guidance for the schools and these ones use it to develop their own policies and procedures that must be followed. Two of those organisations are this ones: Working together to safeguard children (2006) – set the guidance and the duties of the organisations and how they must work together, What to do if you’re worried that a child is being abused (2006) –is a guidance for the safeguard and