The main purpose of this Law is to improve, in respect of the Bailiwick of Guernsey (except Sark) the rules in relation to children and their families. Precautions are made to ensure all the children’s adequate needs are met and to support Parents, Families and others caring for or working with children. Giving specific guidelines to follow for the protection of all children. This enables everyone involved with children the guidance of duties of care, powers and rights and sets out specific objectives for the care of every young person under 18 years. At St Sampson’s High school I feel our most important Policy relating to The Children (Guernsey and Alderney) Law 2008 is ‘The Child Protection Policy’ There are 4 Purposes within this policy.
Section 47 states that the local authority has ‘ a duty to investigate when there is a reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering, or likely to suffer significant harm’ Section 17 states that services must be put into place to ‘safeguard and promote the welfare of children within the area who are in need’. The Education Act 2002 sets out the responsibilities of Local Education Authorities, governing bodies, head teachers and all those working in schools to ensure that children are safe and free from harm. The Children Act 2004, which provides the legal framework for every child matters, includes the requirements for: * Services to work more closely forming an integrated service * A common assessment of children’s needs * A shared database of information which is relevant to the safety and welfare of children * Earlier support for parents who are experiencing problems. Schools must always have a policy that includes E-safety, which is the protection of young people whilst they are using the internet. They must also have policies on bullying and cyber bullying.
CYP Core 3.3 Understand how to safeguard the well-being of children and young people 1. Understand the main legislation, guidlines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people. 1.1 Outline current legislation, guidlines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people. The Children Act 1989 gave every child the right to protection from all forms of physical violence, injury or mental abuse, neglect, maltreatment or exploitation including sexual abuse. Local Authorities have ‘a duty to investigate when there is a reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm’.
TDA 2.2 Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people 1 Know about the legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety. 1.1 Identify the current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety. The current legislation for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people is working with the children, young people and their family’s to ensure the risk of harm is minimized which might include sexual, physical or emotional abuse or even neglect. There are a lot of legislations in place which mostly all of them cover the same thing safeguarding the welfare of children and young people, many laws have come into place to strengthen the ways that children are protected. There are more than just a couple of acts in place the education act 2002 is one of them which requires school governing bodies, local education and further education institutions to make arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, adoption and children’s act 2002 which amends the children act 1989 with definition of harm which now includes a child witnessing violence.
Safeguarding is a concept which is used to protect children in public care from harm. This concept covers all agencies and services when working with young people and families. Each individual that comes into contact with children and families in a working role have a duty to promote the welfare of children and also protect them from harm. All agencies must ensure that any potential harm to any child’s welfare is kept to a minimum. If a concern is identified, caregivers must take all appropriate action to address these concerns whilst working to set policies and procedures.
1.1 Research current legislation for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including E-safety All settings working with children and young people should establish and maintain a safe environment and deal with circumstances where there are welfare concerns. Through their protection policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people. Those settings which work with children and young people have an important role in the detection and prevention of abuse and neglect. There is key legislations put in place to safeguard children and young people. The table below explains what they are and how they protect children and young people.
The United Nations Convention on the rights of the child (1989) this treaty sets out the rights and freedoms of all children in a set of 54 articles included in those rights are those which children ensure that children are safe and looked after. Article 19 states children rights to be “protected from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation including sexual abuse by those looking after them. Those countries which signed up to the treaty including the UK in 1991 are legally bound to implement legislation which supports each of the articles. Children’s act 1989- This act identifies the responsibilities of parents and professionals who must work to ensure the safety of the child. This act includes two important sections which focus specifically on child protection.
All health & social care work is carried out to comply with legal guidelines. These Children Acts are the most important legislation for working with children and provides workers with a number of key principles upon which they can base their practice. The main guidelines of the Children Act are: 1) Promoting the welfare of the child 2) Wherever possible children should be brought up and cared for within their own families. 3) Parents whose children are considered to be in need should be
Unit 025 Understand how safeguard the wellbeing of young children and young people Outcome 1 Understand the main legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people 1. Outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK home nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people? The Childcare act 1989 legislation, policies and procedures are put in place for the safeguarding of all the children in England Wales to ensure that all children’s needs are met. These’s guidelines, policies and procedures are as follow A. Children Act 1989- This act is put in place to safeguard all children ensuring that children are safe, all their needs are met and to prevent abuse.
| 1.1 Identify the current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety. Children’s Act 1989:This Act identifies the responsibilities of parents and professionals who work to ensure the safety of the child. This Act includes two sections which focus mainly on child protection. It states that the Local Authority has a duty to investigate when there is a reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering, or likely to suffer any harm. It also states that services must be put into place to safeguard and promote the welfare of children within the area who are in need.The Education Act:This sets out the responsibilities of Local Education Authorities (LEAs), governing bodies, head teachers and all those working in schools to ensure that children are safe and free from harm.Children’s Act 2004This provides the legal framework for Every Child Matters.