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It emphasises the important principles to be followed when working with children and young people: settings must provide a safe and secure environment, if any children are identified as suffering from abuse or likely to suffer the appropriate action must be taken.

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

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.

Ensuring children and young people’s safety and welfare in the work setting is an essential part of safeguarding. While children are at school, practitioners act in ‘loco parentis’ while their parents are away. As part of their legal and professional obligations, practitioners hold positions of trust and a duty of care to the children in their school, and therefore should always act in their best interests and ensure their safety – the welfare of the child is paramount (Children Act 1989). The Children Act 2004 came in with the Every Child Matters (ECM) guidelines and greatly impacted the way schools look at the care and welfare of pupils. Children and young people should be helped to learn and thrive and be given the opportunity to

It is important to ensure children and young people are protected from harm within the setting, as the parents are leaving their children in your care with the expectation that they can trust you and your colleagues to keep their children from harm. It is difficult for parents to leave their children in an education or care setting and then go to work; they need to be confident that their children will be in safe supportive hands with people that will help them develop.

Pediatricians must recognize and respond to pediatric abusive head trauma, no matter how subtle the signs may be, in order to prevent further neurological injury. The appropriate reports must be made to child welfare services and law enforcement in order to make arrangements for the future safety of the child and deal with the legal ramifications of the abuser.

In a role as a professional adult working with children you will need to remember that you need to be a positive role model for children,this means you will have to show them how to communicate and get along with others at all times through your own relationships and communications with other adults and children.It is very important for children to see adults behaving appropriately and proffesionally in schools.We build relationships with others daily in a diffrnt number of ways children will always respond positively to positive communication and realtionships they are more likely wanting to be in schools and to learn if they have good relationships and are supported by adults around them who get along with each other.

We also need to consider the child's perspective if they ask us for our opinion or advice. Children are much more likely to listen to our opinion or advice if we can put it in a way that means something to them. For

In a case of suspected abuse your priority should be making sure that if you have any suspicions you should report them and follow them through, you should do this because even if you are unsure whether they are ex piercing a use, you should not just let it slide as you may be covering up abuse if you do. if you look on the accidental and non accidental bruising chart and you think you see bruises where it states on the non accidental chart but the parents have not mentioned it, you should report it, don't just brush it off because you are embarrassed that you may be wrong, you should do this because even if you are wrong, you have done your job in the well being of the child within you're care. If you are suspicious of a child's behaviour, if they are awkward when it comes to a certain sex, show sexual advances I.e. Pull their underwear down continuously even after being told it's wrong

The Police – The police work closely with children’s social care to safeguard children from harm. If any children are in immediate danger, the police can take emergency action to safe guard children and also they can follow up any complaints or concerns expressed about child abuse. The Police can report their concerns to the local authority. They collect evidence from all relevant parties. The police attend court to give the evidence when a crime has been

Working together to safeguard children involves the people who works in education, health, police, social services etc. It provides the guidelines on how the organisations and professionals should work together inorder to provide safety and well-being of the children and young people in accordance with the children act 1989 and children act 2004. The guidance is updated in 2006. It highlights about the roles and responsibilities of different agencies and practitioners, the role of local safeguarding children boards, how to provide best practice in child protection procedures, what processes should be followed when there are concerns about a child, what action should be taken in safeguarding the children and young people, training requirements to the people who works for the safety and well-being of the children etc. The protection of children act 1999 requires child care organisations not to offer employment to the people(which involve close work interation with the children) if they are unfit to work with the children due to some criminal records.

When there is a possibility that a child is being abused or being maltreated, there are certain procedures that should be followed to ensure the safety of the child/young person. In a social care setting where there are young children, such as in schools and nurseries, there are specific codes of conducts that all workers must abide by. If the care worker does not abide by these rules, there is a possibility that the care worker can be abusing the child. Organizations have strict policies, where they require staff to read and confirm that they will abide by the codes of conducts. There are specific rules to ensure the safety of young people from members of staff and visitors from harm within settings.

“I’m at fault for not stopping the abuse.” Child abuse is when a parent or caregiver, whether through action or failing to act, causes injury, death, emotional destruction or risk of stern harm to a child. There are many forms of child cruelty, including neglect, violence, sexual abuse, manipulation, and emotional abuse. Child abuse is a worldwide social problem with many serious consequences, both short term and long term. The prevention and early detection of child abuse is extremely important in order to occur and improve the situation and to prevent repeated abuse, serious morbidity, or even death.

The role of different agencies and professionals within the process of safeguarding children and young people are the police which failed during this case because they did not share information with any agency to protect and safeguard Daniel Pelka and that the domestic violence was a risk to

According to AAT ethics, whistle blowing is a phrase that describes disclosing information to an employer, or where appropriate, a regulator, police or the media about malpractice, wrongdoing or a risk to safety (The ethics of whistleblowing, 2013). Whistle blowing should only be attempted if the following four conditions are met: (1) Need. There must be a clear and important harm that can be avoided. (2) Proximity. Information that is being reported, should be documented and there should be proof. Hearsay is not enough. (3) Capability. The whistle blower should be adequate and have a good chance of successfully helping and making a difference when reporting the problem. (4) Last resort. Whistle blowing should only be done if all other lines of resolution have been exhausted and there is no one more capable of solving the issue (Fleddermann, 2008). This essay will explain the difficulties in being a successful whistle blower, with close reference to these four conditions, and a case study that will be