Cyp Core 3.3

This helps practitioner’s work together for the welfare of children. It promotes the Every Child Matters outcomes to reinforcing how important it is for all child careers to work together.

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-

In order to not only promote the welfare of children within a setting but also to protect them from harm and abuse there are a number of pieces of legislation and statutory guidance that must be adhered to. Both laws and statutory guidance are mandatory and so legally enforceable and must act as a foundation of which policies and procedures within any setting can be based upon.

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

The integral part of this act is to maintain the child is at the forefront of decisions; the best option in relation to the child’s welfare will be taken into account when deciding the best course of action for the child/young person’s upbringing – creating a partnership between parents and multi-agencies.

Practitioners have to put the needs of children first because this will help keep children safe and encourages children to be independent. It’s important to show

Unit 14 AC1.3 Unit 16 AC 1.1 in the table below explain the following legislation and guidance in respect of safeguarding adult’s children and young people.

Ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care and

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

To be able to safeguard children effectively we need to be aware of the following policies:

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

In 2003 the Government published a Green Paper named Every Child Matters (ECM), this was published as a response to the death of Victoria Climbie. This was seen as the most important piece of legislation for children over thirty years. The Children’s Act 2004 also passed as a consequence of the Green Paper. The overall aim of the Green Paper was to help children achieve the five Every Child Matters outcomes which are

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

The Children Act (1989) and (2004) – Established care workers should see the needs of a child as paramount when making decisions that could affect a child’s welfare. The Act of 2004 resulted in a report called Every Child Matters. The aim is that all children should be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution and achieve economic well-being.

They believe the system should be child centred allowing them then to be part of decisions made about their life. Expressing their views needs and wants. Professional should listen to what the child has to tell and this should help proceedings get dealt with quickly. This is very similar to the Munro (2011). After Munro (2011) released her review the working together to safeguard children (2010) was revised and largely cut down. Taking on board many of Munro's (2011) points resulting in a new Working together to safeguard children ( 2013) version. In this statutory guidance all non-statutory guidance has been removed. This now states that child protection is everyone’s responsibility to the end of their known role where if a concern is raised it will be passed onto whomever is the next professional to work with. Working with other professionals is seen to be of high importance to maintain the best outcome for the child though sharing information. This guidance sees the importance in regular meetings about cases to discuss concerns and come to a joint decision involving everyone’s perceptive. These meeting will work well as long as it is child centred and there voice heard like Munro (2011) suggests. These meetings will make the system more responsive with shorter time scales add in. To keep professional at high child centred ability they will