Nvq 3 Ccld Safeguarding

Children Act 2006 – Is an Act that defines the new duties imposed on the Local Authorities in respect to improving the Every Child Matters outcomes for pre-school children. The Act also defines new rules in relation to childcare for working parents as well as parental information services. It is aimed at improving the well-being of young children. It emphasises the importance of safeguarding children and young people within an educational setting. If a child discloses neglect or abuse; an establishment should have instructions to help the child. This could be referral to an outside organisation or internally.

There are many policies and procedures within the UK that outline the current legislation and guidelines to help with safeguarding children and young people.

A significant element of a practitioner’s role in protecting themselves would be to read policies and procedures that are put in place to safeguard them and children or young people in their care. In a care setting a professional can protect themselves by:

In order to ensure the safety of the children and young people in our care there are a number of policies, procedures and practices that must be adhered to.

Risk assessments should be carried out regularly to make sure that there are no safe guard threats towards the children in the setting. Childcare settings need risk assessing for example is there entrances and exits to the building that an unauthorised person could use? Could a child leave the setting without anyone noticing? Could a child get seriously hurt due to a broken piece of equipment?

You should never make promises to them, especially things such as "don't worry we will sort this out, things will be better", you should never do this because you should never make a promise to a child you cannot keep, you can say reassuring things like "I promise it is not your fault" but you cannot promise things like not telling anyone, as this is dishonest, you will have to relay what the child has said to the staff and the child will end up shutting of from you and not confiding any other information to you.

How national and local guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding affect day to day work with children and young people

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.

It Is important that people who work with children are aware how to protect themselves against incidents of alleged abuse or inappropriate working practices.

A disturbing statistic: the United States has one of the worst records among industrialized nations-¬¬¬¬¬¬losing on average between four and seven children every day to child abuse and neglect. About 3.6 million referrals are made to child protection agencies involving more than 6.6 million children (Camasso, & Jagannathan, 2012). Researchers say that only 1 in 10 of the referrals is established by child protective services. Some of the reasons children give for not telling includes shame or embarrassment, self-blame, fear of loss, punishment or other consequences and the most common reason is instruction to secrecy. Case Study 1-Child Abuse is an example of instruction to secrecy case.

We make sure at C and C we have policies and procedures in place for safeguarding and child protection:

These organisations and groups should commit to protect all children and know what they will do to keep children safe and respond to concerns by follow the supporting procedures including safe recruitment ensuring all staff and volunteers are received child protection training. (NHS England 2015).

At Moorlands Primary we have our own safeguarding policy in which we have and must follow at all times regarding to the safety of all the children, If I was to ever have a cause for concern for a child inside of school, I would fill out the cause for concern sheet. Once I have completed this form it has to be signed and dated straight away from the schools Senior Designated Person (SDP). Any of the information noted must be kept in a separate named file and in a secure cabinet, not with the child’s educational file. These files with then be the responsibility of the SPD. The child’s information will be shared within the school only if it is in the “need to know” basis and in the child’s strictest interests and making sure that it will always be kept confidential.

At grove primary school we have a safeguarding policy which is in place to make sure that everyone attending the school including children, young people and adults are made to feel safe, secure and protected at all times showing high standards of behaviour and respect working together to safeguard the wellbeing of the children and young people to high expectations, when the policy is reviewed or updated all staff should get up to date with the policies and procedures so they can understand, acknowledge and review any changes that are made. We make sure that every child and young person feels safe and happy so they don’t need to worry about any kind of discrimination or bullying whilst at school and that if anything did occur they

The interpretation of what is considered to “reasonable suspicion” by each childcare provider will be a key factor in the decision of when to report abuse based upon observed warning signs. The researchers in this study are able to adequately define and provide explanations to ensure the meaning of their research study is appropriately conveyed to readers. The study portrays information that could be found useful in today’s practice. It gives and overview look at what occurs and gives rise to the idea of an introduction of a more thorough and updated training for professionals to provide a standard for what should be grounds for reasonable suspicion when reporting abuse (Levi, Crowell, Walsh & Dellasega,