Cyp 3.3 1.2

1.1 Outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people.

There are many legislations and guidelines affecting safeguarding of children and young people. The Children Act 1989, assigns duties to local authorities, courts, parents and other agencies to ensure children are safeguarded, their welfare promoted and for children to be consulted in decisions affecting them. The Children's Act 2004 made amendments to the act of 1989 after the failings regarding Victoria Climbe. It places duty on local authorities to work together and share information introducing local Safeguarding Boards to work collaboratively to safeguard children and young people. This includes the five outcomes of Every Child Matters 2003. The Childcare Act 0f 2006 introduced plans for children aged 0-5 to

The following are all legal requirements acting in the interest of child protection and safeguarding to promote the welfare of children and protect them from abuse and harm:

1.1 outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK home nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people.

Safeguarding children and young people is important as it extends beyond child protection and it includes more wide-ranging concepts. Safeguarding children and young people means we are protecting them from all sorts of harm such as accidents, deliberate abuse, neglect and even factors such as bullying, prejudiced attitudes and failure on allowing children to participate in different activities etc. The wider concepts of safeguarding means that we are protecting children from maltreatment, we are preventing impairment of children 's health or development, we are ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care and also taking action in order to enable all children and young people to have the best outcomes. Child protection is also an important part of safeguarding and promoting welfare. 'Staying safe action plan 2008 ' highlighted a number of areas that were of concern:

Section: 1.3 * Analyse how national and local guideline, policies and procedures for safeguarding affect day to day work with children and young people. The government is there to create a law for a serious case review, this is then given to the local authorities and they then interpret the law and then develop a code of practice which is then given to all the schools. Then it is up to the schools management to write the school policies and make sure that the staff and volunteers read and follow. The policies are reviewed for at least every two to three years.

The statutory guidance should be read and followed by local authority and implement in appropriate way. All relevant professionals should read and follow the guideline so, that they can response to individual children needs appropriately. A child-centred and coordinator approach to safeguard Safeguarding is every one responsibility for services to play an important role and take a full part of their responsibilities. A child centred approach for services should be based on the clear individual understanding of the welfare of children and young people and also respected the children view to be hear and have a build the trust relationship between each other and respected their views.

Effective safeguarding systems are those that ensure the child's needs are paramount, where professionals who come into contact with children are alert to their needs and are aware of any risks of harm that individual abusers, or potential abusers, may pose to children. Only by putting children at the centre of the system can effective safeguarding be achieved. This must be done in order to save children from any potential risk or danger of harm and the earlier safeguarding issues are recognised then the quicker a child can be helped from any unnecessary

Professionals working in health and social services, educational establishments, and those working for the police and the probation services are bound by statutory law such as Working Together to Safeguard Children 2013 (replacing previous 2010 Act). The statutory includes all nature and impact of child abuse and neglect, procedures to best protect a child, the different roles, processes and responsibilities of all agencies and practitioners involved. It also provided the appropriate action to be taken to safeguard and to promote wellbeing and welfare of children at risk of a possibility significant harm. The 2013 Act sets out important principles to be followed when working with children and their families. Among the other aspect of the act

The current legislation and guidelines are policies and procedures for safeguarding who is promoting children's welfare and putting measures in lace to improve children's safety and preserve abuse. Child protection who are action taken to protect child when there is a reasonable belief that they are at risk of significant harm.

To be able to understand what ‘safeguarding’ means you must first understand what ‘child protection’ is.

The DfES (2005) have emphasised in their current legislation that ‘safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the child’ which by definition is the process of protecting children from abuse or neglect, preventing impairment of their health and development.’ (DfES 2005a, p11). Working together to safeguard children (HM Government 2005a p 19) state child protection as “the activity which is undertaken to protect specific children who are suffering or at risk of suffering significant harm’’.The DfES (2005) have emphasised in their current legislation that ‘safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the child’ which by definition is the process of protecting children from abuse or neglect, preventing impairment of their health and development.’

Working Together to Safeguard Children provides guidance on what steps you should take if you suspect harm to a child wellbeing. The policy gives guidelines to follow to provide the best support. Everyone working with children needs to provide a safe environment for children to learn in and if you suspect a child is being abused or harmed then take appropriate action.

A number of laws and statutory guidance documents govern the way in which children are safeguarded.

There is a collective group of legislations regarding the Safeguarding and the welfare of children and they have to be upheld by company policies and in most circumstances law in order to protect children with our care.