3.1 Know the legal requirements and guidance on health and safety, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and the implications for early year’s settings. 3.2 Know and understand child protection policies and procedures, recognise when a child is in danger or at risk of abuse, and know how to act to protect them. 3.3 Establish a safe environment and employ practices that promote children’s health and safety. 4. Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge every
These panels determine the access that is available between settings for young children and enable referrals to be made. Such panel aim to: Support the early identification of children's needs. Ensure that a child's needs are identified and assessed quickly and referred to the appropriate setting. Monitor children's progress to ensure that provision can support the child's identified needs. Coordinate provision through the development of close partnerships between parents, settings and different agencies in the state, private and voluntary sector.
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets the standards that all early years providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. It promotes teaching and learning to ensure children’s ‘school readiness’ and gives children the broad range of knowledge and skills that provide the right foundation for good future progress through school and life. The EYFS seeks to provide: • quality and consistency in all early years settings, so that every child makes good progress and no child gets left behind; • a secure foundation through learning and development opportunities which are planned around the needs and interests of each individual child and are assessed and reviewed regularly; • partnership working between practitioners and with parents and/or carers; • equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice, ensuring that every child is included and supported. The EYFS specifies requirements for learning and development and for safeguarding children and promoting their welfare. The learning and development requirements cover: • the areas of learning and development which must shape activities and experiences (educational programmes) for children in all early years settings; • the early learning goals that providers must help children work towards (the knowledge, skills and understanding children should have at the end of the
CU1523 Working together for the Benefit of Children and Young People 1. Understand integrated and multi-agency working 1.1 Explain the importance of multi-agency working and integrated working * As an early years setting we have a responsibility to help the children in out care achieve the ‘every child matters’. To be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve. * Team work with outside professionals is imminent to our work practises and I feel that integrating will help us achieve the outcome that we would like for our children and this will help them in their development going forward. This is an integral requirement of the eyfs.
Unit- 066.1.1 Explain the welfare requirements and guidance of the relevant early years framework (EYFS 2012- Statutory Framework booklet) Introduction Children learn best when they are healthy, safe and secure, when their individual needs are met, and when they have positive relationships with the adults caring for them. The safeguarding and welfare requirements, specified in this section, are designed to help providers create high quality settings which are welcoming, safe and stimulating, and where children are able to enjoy learning and grow in confidence. Providers must take all necessary steps to keep children safe and well. The requirements in this section explain what early years providers must do to: safeguard children; ensure the suitability of adults who have contact with children; promote good health; manage behaviour; and maintain records, policies and procedures. Schools are not required to have separate policies to cover EYFS requirements provided the requirements are already met through an existing policy.
It requires local authorities to provide more parental information services, but also to accommodate childcare providers with adequate advice and training. Every Child Matters The main aim of Every Child Matters is to ensure that all children are given the same opportunities to achieve their goals regardless of their background or circumstances. The Government works closely with local authorities and parents to promote children welfare and help them achieve the five outcomes (like
The Childcare Act 2006 is the first piece of legislation that is primarily concerned with Early Years and Childcare and introduces the early years foundation stage (EYFS) which supports settings in delivering high quality early education. In any childcare setting responsibility is the welfare and well-being of all the children in their care. All staff are appropriately trained and that procedures are put into practice to make sure that if any child may become at risk that you or your line manager liaises with other childcare agencies, such as health visitors, social services and Ofsted, in her role as Child Protection Liaison Officer (CPLO). Staff, childcare providers and child-minder’s, must be trained to recognize any signs of abuse and any concerns directed to the childcare setting will then be treated with absolute confidentiality. Any concern is discussed with the child if they are of appropriate age and with the parents/carer, the childcare provider would then hope to get their agreement in order to make a referral to social services via carrying out a Common Assessment Framework (CAF), unless it is felt the discussion would place the child at risk of harm.
Unit CU1533 Context and principles for early years provision * EYFS is mandatory in all companies and settings which provide early years education. It includes some learning and development requirements as well as safeguarding and welfare. Ofsted is the company who comes out to inspect the setting and deals with the quality and standards of provision to get a good application of the EYFS. Every child in the setting deserves the best possible outcome in their life with a support which helps them do this and develop their abilities; therefore the EYFS has some basic principles to help do this: * Every child is unique and different * Positive and good relationships are important for the independence of a child * Children should be enabling their environment, which will provide them with experiences of good learning and development. * Each and every child is different so each child has a different development and learning.
The school staff, volunteer, and pupils adhere to school policy, for the safeguarding of children and the benefit of the school to ensure a calm, purposeful happy environment for all which are: Children to follow the simple behaviour plan, (Be respectful to each other and the environment around me, be nice and treat each other fairly, Work hard and achieve to the best of their ability) Children and teachers Set agreed ground rules for each class with incentives and sanctions which can be clearly understood by all. Staffs are taught to identify underlying causes of bad behaviour, and how to manage it consistently with the support of ongoing training. Individual Targets setting is developed for positive behaviour which is supported and monitored by the school, parent and pupils Ongoing difficult behaviour issues to be referred to the SENCO, Educational Psychologist, Education social Welfare where a individual programme which will be taught to promote positive behaviour. Physical intervention by use of physical restraints can be used to stop children injury themselves, others or property when all other strategies have proved ineffective. This is then recorded and reported Code of Conduct Everyone is to respect each other, to
In a childcare setting there are many policies and procedures put in place to safeguard children from danger and harm. The child protection policy was put in place to ensure each child is observed closely and no child is suffering from significant harm within their home environment. The setting work with parents to ensure the safety of children is considered. The health and safety policy was put in place to ensure the setting is a safe environment for children to be in. All equipment must be set out for the correct age ranges, all equipment regularly cleaned, ensure there are no broken toys etc.