LO 1 Understand the main legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people. 1.1 Outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people. Children's Act 1989 Children's Act 2004 The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006 Education Act 2002 Every Child Matters United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child 1991 Children's Act 1989 This Act united all the above Acts, giving better protection for children and their rights in UK countries and give clear guidelines to all that work with children on what their duties are and how they should work in partnership with parents/carers and local authorities in the event of child abuse allegations. Children's Act 2004 The death of Victoria Climbié highlighted the need to improve services and how they should be working closely together to identify and protect vulnerable children. This included setting up: local safeguarding children boards (LSCB) giving statutory powers to ensure all services e.g.
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’.
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 Act 1989 Currently provides the legislative framework for child protection in England. Key principles established by the act include: • the paramount nature of the child's welfare • the expectations and requirements around duties of care to children. Children Act 2004 Strengthens the 1989 Act. Encourages partnerships between agencies and creates more accountability.
(Ref. 1.1) | | Description | The Children Act 2004 Reports:;- Children Act Report 2002 / 2003 / 2004-05 | The Children Act 2004The act provides the legislative spine on which the reform of children’s services is based. It aims to improve and amalgamate children’s services, aid early intervention, provide firm leadership and bring together various professionals in multi-disciplinary teams in order attain assured results for children and young people and their families.The Act aims to improve effective local working practices to safeguard and promote children’s well-being. The Act takes a child-centred approach. Some of the aim of amalgamation of services plans and information is to enable the children’s needs to be identified early to allow timely and appropriate intervention.The act establishes:• a need for better combined planning, commissioning and delivery of children’s services;• clearer accountability for councils’ children’s services,• a legislative basis for better sharing of information;• Statutory Local Safeguarding Children Boards to replace non-statutory Area Child Protection Committees.
Assignment 026. Understand how to safeguard the well being of children and young people. Task A. Safeguarding Children Presentation for new workers. This leaflet is designed to explain to new workers in a childcare settings the importance of safeguarding children and young people, how we can help children and young people grow and develop in a safe environment, protected from harm, abuse and maltreatment. This leaflet also focuses on current legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines applying to settings in England, as some legislations, policies, procedures and guidelines may vary in Scotland, Ireland, Wales.
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. It states that all services work more closely, forming a better service using a shared database of information which is relevant to the safety and welfare of children and giving earlier support for parents who are experiencing problems. Schools must
Estelle San-Giovanni CYP Core 3.3 Understand how to safeguard the well-being of children and young people. 1.1 Policies and procedures for safeguarding and child protection in England and Wales are the result of the children Act 1989 and in Northern Ireland the Children order 1995. The way the protection system is structured and organised in England and wales was introduced to further changes in the Children Act 2004. These acts were created to simplify the laws that protected children and young people in the United Kingdom. The serious changes of the children’s rights and protection made it clear to all who worked with children what their duties were and how they should work together in the event of allegations of child abuse.
Safeguarding Answer the following questions: Unit 025 – Understand How to Safeguard the Well-being of 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 Policies and procedures for safeguarding and child protection in England and Wales have been formulated from; Children Act 1989 Protects children and young people in the UK and clarifies to people working with children what their duties are and how to work together in event of child abuse. England and Wales produced a separate document Working Together to Safeguard Children (1999), which emphasises the responsibilities of professionals towards children who are at risk of harm. Children Act 2004 • Integration of children’s services and introduction of children’s directors who are responsible for local authority education and children’s social services • Lead councillors for children’s services with political responsibility for child welfare • The establishment of Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards who have statutory powers to ensure that social services, the NHS, education services, the Police and other services work together to protect vulnerable children • A new Common Assessment Framework to help agencies to identify welfare needs • Revised arrangements for sharing information Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006 Revised and updated on safeguarding and a national framework to help agencies work individually and together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children The Vetting and Barring Scheme Introduced in October 2009, this aims to prevent unsuitable people working with children and vulnerable people.
There has been a subsequent Children Act which provided for a Children’s Commissioner and also allowed the government to provide a legal framework for the Every Child Matters programme. The Children Act 2004 is designed to ensure that difference services for children and young people work more effectively together. The Children Act 1989 has influenced setting 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 that they form partnerships with parents /carers. It requires settings to have appropriate adult: child ratios and policies and procedures on child protection.
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.