Explain How To Be Responsible For Safeguarding Children's People

Any individual who comes into contact with children in their daily line of work “has a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children”.

There are many procedures, policies, legislations and statutory guidance to support the safety and welfare of children and young people. They have been developed over many years to recognise the rights of children and young people, protect vulnerable children and young people and after independent inquiries of fatal abuse cases, to recognise the failures of multi agencies and support services.

Children and young people are vulnerable in nature. As their journey of life is in initial stages of development. They lack experience to understand and handle certain situations. Their lives can be severely affected by the risk, danger and fear from unknown or from people who are considered closest. If they are not taken care during their childhood, they may suffer from difficult young age and adulthood.

- carry out medical examinations/observations of a child thought to be at risk of abuse.

Explain the roles and responsibilities of two members of the children’s workforce in relation to looked after children and young people.

Safeguarding is for everyone and every organisation responsibility to protect children from any harm and promote their welfare (Children Act, 2004). However, the Department of Children, School

Any individual who comes into contact with children in their daily work has a duty to ensure the safety and well-being of children. Safeguarding means protecting and promoting the childs welfare and putting measures in place to prevent abuse. Child protection is protecting a child when there is reason to believe that the child has suffered or is likely to suffer from abuse or neglect. In order to ensure this happens within a school setting, there are many laws that protect the welfare and safeguarding of children:-

Today we use the term safeguarding instead of child protection because it covers a much broader range. These changes were influenced by the first Joint Chief Inspectors’ safeguarding report 2002 and formalised in the Every Child Matters legislation outlined in the Children Act 2004. By safeguarding a child or young person we ensure they get the very best of the opportunities available to them for them to achieve the best of their potential while keeping them safe from bullying, crime, accidents, neglect and abuse.

Develop and implement policies and procedures to support the safeguarding of children and young people.

The EYFS is a central part of the ten year childcare strategy Choice for parents, the best start for children and the landmark Childcare Act 2006.

Decision made by an agency with Statutory Child Protection Powers (Police, LA or NSPCC) that emergency action may be necessary to safeguard child

Making sure children and young people are safeguarded with in the setting is of major importance.

The first factor involved in maintaining a healthy environment is forming a good relationship between the early year’s practitioners and the child’s parents. This is incredibly important according to Jane Drake from Nursery World who says “it is parents who know their children best, and unless there is a sharing of information between practitioners and parents, a child’s learning needs will be neither fully understood nor, ultimately met”. Each child in the setting is assigned a key worker who will find out about their child’s likes and dislikes as well as some of their main interests which will contribute to the key person being able to provide for all of the child’s needs, they will also form a trusting relationship with both the child and their parent/carer and keep them informed of their child’s progress. It is vital that children form attachments with their key person as young children are known to flourish when things seem familiar and predictable and this can only be possible if the key person maintains a good personal relationship with the child. If children are loved and cared for then they will be in the right frame of mind to learn,

Working in partnership with key professionals will provide good support and advice where needed to help improve the overall development of the children and to help staff that are less experienced in certain areas. As every child develops differently and at different rates working in partnership and listening to a professional that is for a certain area will help with children’s different needs. For example getting recourses off a speech and language therapist will help the child with the specific need to develop in the best way

Every adult who has children knows it is a challenging experience and extremely rewarding, especially when the children grow to be responsible, independent, caring, productive adults and parents in their own right. After helping raise my own children, being a professional martial arts instructor since 1979, teaching thousands of children and helping other parents raise their children (so they tell me), here are 10 keys I feel are important to raising children successfully.