Unit 304 - Principles for Implementing Duty of Care

It is important to safeguard children and young people because no one deserves to be abused whether it be emotional, physical, sexual abuse and no young person deserves to be neglected and we have a duty to protect them from harm.

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.

Any individual who comes into contact with children in their daily work has a duty to ensure the safety and well-being of children. Safeguarding means protecting and promoting the childs welfare and putting measures in place to prevent abuse. Child protection is protecting a child when there is reason to believe that the child has suffered or is likely to suffer from abuse or neglect. In order to ensure this happens within a school setting, there are many laws that protect the welfare and safeguarding of children:-

3. Explain how risk assessment can help address dilemmas between rights and health and safety concerns

|As adults in positions of responsibility it is important to be aware of the importance of protecting children and young people from harm. While |

• Confidentiality and when, for the safety of the child or young person confidentiality must be breached.

Duty of care is defined as ‘legal obligation to take reasonable care to avoid causing damage’. Duty of care in my role at work includes keeping the children safe and away from harm at all times whilst under my care but also to allow them to take risks and

As a childminder I have a duty of care to keep all my minded children safe, healthy and comfortable while making sure their rights are guarded. I have a duty of care to keep children from harm whether physical or psychological. I carry out risk assessments in my home and when out and about to avoid potential hazards to children. Risk assessments are reviewed every year or when accidents/incidents happen and there is a need for review. The house is equipped with safety equipment to minimise risk of injury or harm. Stair gates, plug sockets and cupboard

Your child's school should have a number of measures in place to help protect them, including: staff who have been trained to identify signs of abuse including what to do if they or someone else is worried about a child a designated teacher responsible for dealing with child protection procedures for checking on staff before they are allowed to

It is important that children and young people develop strategies to protect themselves and make their own decisions when it comes to safety as adults cannot be around to protect them all the time. Help children and young people to assess and manage risk, be able to judge their own abilities and evaluate potentially dangerous situations. Children should be encouraged to tell an adult to prevent abuse or neglect, or that another child is bothering them. Or be able to make a disclosure without the fear of being ridiculed or having it dismissed. You must build a trusting relationship which will help the children in coming to you if they are concerned with their

When analyzing this question I recognised that there is a broad spectrum of what could be discussed in this essay. I have chosen to concentrate on the aspect of duty of care owed by both the Employers Agent and the Project Manager.

Anyone who works in the field of community service or a comparable profession has an inherent duty to children and young people. The duty is both one which is part of the humane contract that exists between individuals and the legal and ethical written contract that all professionals must be aware of. The first duty is that as a professional one needs to be aware of the rights of children: "Children and young people have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. It follows that trusted adults are expected to take reasonable steps to ensure the safety and well-being of children and young people. Failure to do so may be regarded as neglect" (tameside.gov.uk, 2008). The duty of professionals revolve around keeping children safe, and protecting them as adequately as they can from any harm or abuse of a physical, sexual or emotional nature (tameside.gov.uk, 2008). Part of the duty of working around young people or children is being aware of the signs of abuse or potential problems and being able to identify those signs in the real children in front of one. For example, a child at risk could just be a product of poor parental supervision and discipline, or it could be even more serious such as parents who abuse substances or engage in domestic violence (dpc.nsw.gov.au, 2010). The professional's duty is having the ability to know the signs and know whether a problem is something that she can assist in repairing, or if it's something

Firstly, I must remain calm, gather some facts from the child, observe any signs of physical abuse, listen carefully