Policy and Procedures

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.

Explain the benefits of all staff consistently and fairly applying rules and boundaries for children and young people’s behaviour in accordance with the policies and procedures of the setting.

The anti-bullying policy sets the aims that everyone at the school has “the right to feel welcome, secure and happy.” All staff, parents and pupils have a responsibility to prevent bullying, and the policy contains guidelines on how to achieve this. The policy explains how to define bullying to the two different key stages, including what does not constitute bullying. Children are taught how they can help each other to prevent bullying in the school, such as “we can ask the bully to stop”, “we can stand up for the person being bullied and help them” and “we can try to make

My schools attendance policy sets out how the school manages issues around attendance. Attendance has to be monitored carefully to ensure there are no unauthorised absences or long spells of unexplained absences. Both children and parents have a

Children and young people should feel happy, safe, respected and included in the school or early years setting environment and all staff should be proactive in promoting positive behavior in the classroom, playground and the wider community. Policies and practice which make sure the safety and wellbeing of children should already be in place and it is this legislation develop through many years and experiences, and mistakes, that underpin the working practices that are used today.

. Schools must actively prevent bullying as incidents of bullying may in breach of Article 14 which concerns the freedom of any ground such as colour, race, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority birth or other status”bullying would b

This means keeping children safe from accidents (i.e. road safety), crime and bullying and actively promoting their well-being in a healthy, safe and supportive environment. It also encompasses issues such as pupil health and safety and bullying, about which there are specific statutory requirements, and a range of other issues, for example, arrangements for meeting the medical needs of children with medical conditions, providing first aid, school security, drugs and substance misuse.

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

1.3 Analyse how national and local guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding affect day-to-day work with children and young people

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

The school employs a number of sanctions to enforce school rules and to ensure a safe and positive learning environment.   We employ each sanction appropriately to each individual situation.

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?

1 Understand the Policies, Procedures and Practices for safe working with children and young adults

There remains an evident need for the development of standardized policy and procedures to define and organize specific levels of competencies within the health care navigation system and address the prevailing inconsistencies. From the mid-1960s when Chairman Mao proclaimed a new health policy: a Barefoot Doctor lay health care provider program designed to address the shortage of physicians in China 's vast rural populations1-3 to the conjoint efforts in the United States’ “Great Society Mission4” to current State models which vary drastically in regards to legislation and framework, certification, scope of practice, financing, training and education5-7, a unified compendium for standards of care needs to be instilled into the healthcare