The Importance Of Granting Protection And Other Rights

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 Act 1989 – Determines the duty of early year’s practitioners to identify and meet the separate and distinctive needs of children and to keep them safe. It initiated the belief that the child ought to be at the centre of planning and that a child’s well-being and safety are vital when judgements are made concerning them. This act also recognises the accountabilities of parents in keeping their offspring safe. In this act there are two particular segments that relate to the duty of local authority with concern to child protection, these are-

Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people is extremely important. It involves more than just protecting children from abuse – it also includes promoting their interests, keeping them safe and protecting their rights.

The children act 1989 has influenced some settings by bringing together several sets of guidance and provided the foundation for many of the standards practitioners sustain and maintain when working with children. The act requires that settings work together in the best interests of the child and form partnerships with parents or carers. It requires settings to have appropriate adult to child ratios and policies and procedures on child protection. This act has had an influence in all areas of practice from planning a curriculum and record keeping. The every child matters framework has

More than ever, Child protection is a topical issue. That’s why many years ago the British government, aware of the fragility and vulnerability of children to adults, has implemented a number of laws relating to children and young people in the UK. These laws are made to define the inherent right of children, and also to define the implication of their rights for all those responsible of or using any childhood services; but more specifically what we will see through the legislation concerning the rights of children, is how they may impact the work of childcarers, how they can

The UK Government has defined the term ‘safeguarding children’ as: ‘The process of protecting children from abuse or neglect, preventing impairment of their health and development, and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care that enables children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.’

Working together to safeguard children 2006 sets out how organisations and individuals should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people in accordance with the Children’s Act 1989 and the Children’s Act 2004. It is important that all practitioners within settings and environments looking and caring after children and young people must know their responsibilities and duties in order to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people, following their legislations, policies and procedures.

There has been certain legislation in the United Kingdom along with home policies and procedures that affect the safeguarding of children and young people. Policies and procedures for safeguarding and child protection in England and Wales are the result of the Children Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004 brought more changes that affected the way the child protection system works here in the United Kingdom and so affecting the safeguarding of children and young people. Through the protection policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people, settings which work with children and young people have an important role in the

The Australian government had a policy of taking away half-cast children from their parents. The government was claiming it was “protecting” those kids. Those “stolen” children were taken to boarding schools that is far away from their families. Those kids lost the connection with their parents. Those children might have faced physical, mental and sexual abuses. They were force to share bed with one another and to speak a foreign language. Some of those children, when they faced those hardships opted to run away from the school endangering their lives. What kind of protection could that

Children, the very special group of people in this world, who are vulnerable to the sexual abuse the most. Although the federal government as well as NGOs are putting a lot of effort on preventing children from sexual abuse, the situation has not been alleviated. Thus, it is fairly to argue that child sexual abuse (CSA) is one of the most critical social issues in Australia. In 2012, the Royal Commission had conducted a 5-year detailed national-wide survey about the facts, the problems, the barriers, the protection procedures of the CSA phenomenon in Australia. In this report, the Royal Commission highlighted the religious institutions as well as the out-of-home care of children (Davidson, 2017). However, there is one group of people that the

Australian Institute of Family Studies (2015c) reports that compared to non-Indigenous children Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are over-represented in child protection and out-of-home care services. There are complex reason for this over-representation including past history of force removal, the effects that is associated with low social-economic status, and the cultural aspect of child rearing when compared to western views. The Australian Institute of Family Studies (2015c) goes on to state that ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were seven times more likely than non-Indigenous children to be the subject of substantiated reports of harm/risk of harm.’

“Parliaments and their members can and should be among the foremost champions of child protection. They can legislate, oversee government activity, allocate financial resources and, as leaders within their nations and communities, raise awareness of issues and provide advocacy.”

The history of state-organised child care is miserable with extensive evidence of abuse and mistreatment of children in children’s homes. A and S relates to children subject to freeing orders. A had experienced 77 moves and S 96, including in and out of respite placements. Eventually both boys sought declarations for breach of their Articles 3, 6 and 8 rights. It was held that both the local authority and IRO admitted breach of the boys’ human rights, since they denied them of a family life, failed to give them a proper prospect of securing an adoptive placement, and failed to provide precise information to the IRO, failed to encourage rights of the children to access legal advice and failed to save them from degrading treatment and physical assault.

The parenting assessment capacity is a significant exercise in the child protection field and not only does this task assess the parents’ capacity to save the children from harm and enhance their developmental growth but also act as a deciding factor whether to put the children in parents’ custody or not (White, 2005, p.3). Every child should have the right to grow up in a safe and healthy environment that ensures love, care and support. Australian Government recognises the safety and the wellbeing of the children and also well aware of the fact that preventing the abuse and neglect is the best form of protection for children (Commonwealth of Australia 2009, pp.6-8). This parenting assessment report is dealing with a complex multi-layered case

Creating a legal system that and protects human rights successfully is difficult. In the case of Dr Haneef’s detainment and charge, the Australian legal system failed to protect his human rights. Since the devastating terror attacks of 9/11, Australia has introduced over 51 new laws to combat terrorism (Australian Human Rights Commission, n.d.). This torrent of laws is largely considered a kneejerk reaction triggered by grief and fear. Australia’s anti-terrorism laws are continuously under scrutiny as they have been put into place to protect the society, but are thought to endanger individual’s human rights, especially when a Bill of Rights is absent.