Why Is It Important To Safeguard Children

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.

For child protection to work effectively we must ensure we have good inter relationships with other agencies and good co-operation from professionals that are competent in responding to child protection situations. A procedure for recording concerns and incidents if a child discloses information that concerns his/her welfare; We must make a record of exactly what the child has said in their words and report it to a safeguarding officer, ensuring that these records are kept confidential and separated from pupil’s records. Guidance on confidentiality and sharing; the head teacher or safeguarding officer will only disclose personal information concerning a child to other members of staff on a need to know basis, however all staff must be aware that they have a responsibility to share information with other agencies.

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

Safeguarding is a fundamental part of our every day activities with children and young people in the most basic of things from

An integral part of all of my roles is the welfare of the children. Building secure relationships with them and being aware of any issues which may arise. If I have concerns for a child’s well being, the actions I would take include; relaying concerns to the class teacher, learning mentor, SENCO,

It promotes the welfare of children and brings into action safeguarding giving children security in school and teachers the opportunity to show concern if they feel a child is being abused or their right to education is being restricted due to issues outside of school.

Raise awareness of safeguarding issues in the community by conducting seminars with a designated safeguarding officer in all schools

Decision made by an agency with Statutory Child Protection Powers (Police, LA or NSPCC) that emergency action may be necessary to safeguard child

9. Describe the role and responsibilities of the different organisations that may be involved when a child or young person has been abused or harmed.

To be responsible for security and children's safety reporting any concerns to Designated safeguarding children's Person

In all legislation there will be guidelines regarding safeguarding children. In place are strict legislative rules in force to prevent any forms of abuse. Victoria Climbié, Daniel Pelka and Baby P. “Over one in 20 children in different areas of the UK have been subjected to various types of abuse.” Reported by Farrell 2013 on sky news. Another case brought to our attention through the media was Victoria Climbié had 128 separate injuries prior to her death in 2000 (See Appendix-2).

It is important that we protect children and young people for them to enjoy life, and if you do that then they are more likely to reach their full potential later on in life.

Child abuse is any physical, emotional, sexual or psychological active that has been done to a child such as, burning, kicking, biting, choking or stabbing etc. As well as neglect, which is not giving the child its required basic needs, for example, food, clothes and shelter. Each week the Child Protective Services get approximately sixty thousand reports on potential child abuse or neglect. In the year 2007, the Child Protective Services agencies check thoroughly into the family living environments of around 3.5 million children in the United States (Zinn, Eitzen & Wells, 2010).

A child or young person does not have the knowledge to protect themselves, therefore all staff members that work with children have a duty to help them achieve this. You can do this by educating children and young people on how to protect themselves from harm. For example, if you talk openly about the school’s policies and procedures on abuse children will understand their rights not to be abused and use discussions to ensure all pupils know how to turn to for help if they are being abused. Doing this will contribute to ensuring children and young people are protected from harm in the work