Contemporary Services For Children: A Social Analysis

Every Child Matters Framework which is currently in the process to be changed is part of the Children Act 2004; it is a piece of legislation which has and influences planning and provisions of learning opportunities. The Every Child Matters ensures that settings provide quality of children’s and young people’s play and learning.This supports children from birth to 19 years. When practitioners plan, they should relate their work to the five outcomes for children; be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve though learning, make a positive contribution to society and achieve economic

Children Act 1989 – Determines the duty of early year’s practitioners to identify and meet the separate and distinctive needs of children and to keep them safe. It initiated the belief that the child ought to be at the centre of planning and that a child’s well-being and safety are vital when judgements are made concerning them. This act also recognises the accountabilities of parents in keeping their offspring safe. In this act there are two particular segments that relate to the duty of local authority with concern to child protection, these are-

The Children Act 1989 – Places a duty on all child care practitioners within a setting to not only identify but also to meet the needs of every individual child as well as keeping them safe. The Act introduced the idea of child led planning, placing the child at the center of any planning made regarding their own learning and development. The act also specifies the responsibility of the parent in keeping their own child safe and free from harm.

Modern society now especially since 1997 have tried putting children first such as committing to meeting children’s needs. There are still problems such as school truancy, adolescents not in education or training and also child protection as there have been tragic deaths including baby P and Victoria climbie, which her death was largely responsible for the formation of every child matters inactive plus a lot of other changes in different systems,

Following these proposals from Lord Laming, there have been developments in legislation and policy, which involve children’s welfare, one of which was the Green Paper of Every Child Matters (ECM) (DfES, 2003), a pre legislative document from the government of the day. This built upon existing plans to strengthen preventative services using the four key themes of: support, early intervention, problems addressed in the Victoria Climbie case and ensuring adults working with children are trained. The ECM Green Paper was the basis of a consultation between professionals, parents, cares and children about how the services for young people were working. Following from this, the government developed and parliament passed the Children Act

Children Act 1989 – Protecting children’s welfare and to provide services according to the specific needs of children.

Every child matters green paper focuses on all the aspects of children and young people’s welfare.

The children act 1989 has influenced some settings by bringing together several sets of guidance and provided the foundation for many of the standards practitioners sustain and maintain when working with children. The act requires that settings work together in the best interests of the child and form partnerships with parents or carers. It requires settings to have appropriate adult to child ratios and policies and procedures on child protection. This act has had an influence in all areas of practice from planning a curriculum and record keeping. The every child matters framework has

An explanation of how different approaches to work with children in early years have affected current provision in the UK

Department for Education (DfE), (2003a), ‘Every child matters’, [online] Available at webarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk (Accessed 17 February 2014)

We need to understand that each child is different. The aim of the national framework of Every Child Matters is to support the joining up of services to ensure every child can achieve the five Every Child Matters outcomes. Children are offered support to enable them to be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution and achieve economic well-being. All of the services aimed towards children and young people are based upon the planning and meeting of the individual needs. The child’s wishes must be taken into account during decision making to give them a sense of belonging and they should never be made to feel that they are to blame.

This essay will critically compare and contrast the New Labour and Coalition Government’s approach towards Children and Family policies. Significantly looking at the years 1997 onwards, this essay will focus on the different approaches taken by both parties (towards the policy Sure Start). For example, Sure Start. Sure Start was a New Labour “flagship” introduced by the Chancellor of Exchequer (Gordon Brown), its aim was to:

The aim of this assignment is to analyse the development of British social policy, in relation to the development of children services. The author will explore the social policy responses to child protection from 1842 to 2011. This topic of social policy was chosen by the author because it is his area of social work he would like to practice in the future. In the beginning of the assignment the word will

From doing some research on my chosen topic of poverty, I have learned many things that will help me with my work towards children in the future. Theorist such a Maslow and also The Foundation Phase have both more knowledge on children. From understanding both Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and The Foundation Phase I will be able to provide better opportunities for children in the future. Both of these theorist answered many of my questions which were raised. From doing some independent learning into how poverty affects children in both their education, their social development, their health and more, I came to understand that the Welsh government are doing many things to help provide for the children within their schools. Many services have been

In the novel The Children Act, Ian McEwan addresses a question that many still ask to this very day, in what ways can society protect a child’s welfare and how