FOLLOW THE PROCEDURES OF THE SETTING FOR REPORTING AND RECORDING ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCY SITUATIONS

Any exit where students leave the building or congregate before or after school should be supervised by a school official.

Health and safety of the children is so important and should not be put at risk at any time. Any area out of my control that I cannot actually sort myself is reported immediately to be dealt with.

Outcome 4.1 Explain the policies and procedures of the setting or service in response to accidents, incidents, emergencies and illness.

Section 47 of the Act places a duty upon local authorities to investigate such situations whereby 'there is reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering or likely to suffer harm'.

Other people that should be informed are people such as social services if the child is in care or there is previous history with social services. Other professionals the child may be involved with such as behavioural managers and physiotherapist should be told and information should also be shared with school governors so that policies can be reviewed and see if things can be changed to prevent the accident happening again.

Practitioners have a legal duty of confidence with regards to person information that they hold about children young people and their families. Any information you receive about young people and their families. In my work setting information should only be shared with professionals, all information child protection records should be kept securely. These are kept behind the manager’s desk on a tall shelf so that children can’t access them. Personal information should only be disclosed to third parties such as social services after obtaining the consent to who the information relates to in some child protection matters but it may not be possible to obtain consent. The data protection act 1998 allow allegation without consent in some circumstances for example to detect and prevent crime, to apprehend prosecute and offender.

This covers issues including the provision of appropriate first aid equipment, and the appropriate number of first aiders.

It is everybody’s responsibility to safeguard children – This means every single staff member within a setting; irrelevant of what role they may have there. This also includes non-staff members, such as volunteers, student’s third-party companies (visitors, service providers etc). Each setting should therefore adopt their own safeguarding policy, of which has to be kept up to date and followed at all times.

Take urgent actions of either removing the child or removing the perpetrator to reduce further harm.

All staff members are CRB checked and any one visiting the Pre-School will not be left alone with the children unless they have a CRB check also providing us with the proof and we know this person.

You should discuss your concerns with your manager, a named or designated professional or a designated member of staff. Such as; school staff (both teaching and non-teaching), concerns should be reported via the schools’ or colleges’ designated safeguarding lead. The safeguarding lead will usually decide whether to make a referral to children’s social care; for early years practitioners, the Early Years Foundation Stage sets out that providers should ensure that they have a practitioner who is designated to take a lead responsibility for safeguarding children who should liaise with local statutory children’s services agencies. Child minder’s should take that responsibility themselves and should notify children’s social care (and, in emergencies, the police) if they have concerns about the safety or welfare of a child; for health practitioners, all providers of NHS funded health services should identify a named doctor and a named nurse (and a named midwife if the organisation provides maternity services) for safeguarding. GP practices should

In the case of late departure and arrival, the school should be informed by the relevant staff on the trip and parents should be notified for security reasons.

Often children die or get seriously injured due to abuse or avoidable accidents. Society has a duty to protect children. We have a range of professional organisations supported by legislation, policies and procedures in order to do this. When the procedures and policies do not work society has failed at the thing it is meant to do. It is vital and that the causes of failure are known and dealt with.

If the young person or staff involved have sustained any injuries during the incident this is recorded on the incident report and on a body map as well as the accident book and RIDDOR guidelines will be followed.

How can the same mistake take place again? Eight months down the line Daniel Pelka passed away for exactly the same reason school not picking up on things and not reporting incidents.