How legislation and guideline inform your policies and procedures

[Jesslane1992]

can anyone help

how legislation and gulineline inform your policies and procedures

there is one aspect of work with children that must always come first. The requirement to keep them safe, and to protect them from significant harm. all early year settling are bound by law to comply with the legislation blow

protection of children 1999
the children act 2004
working together to safeguard children 2003
the disclosure and barring service DBS

analyse how to legislation above informs your settling polices and procedures


please can anyone help. I have got my settling policy and procedures but I dos'nt really help me at all


thanks emma

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi, page 87 of this EYE handbook looks at the legislation so you're able to match up what it says with your setting's policies and procedures.

Protection of Children Act 1999
As a further safeguard to children's welfare, this Act requires childcare organisations (including anyorganisation concerned with the supervision of children) not to offer employment involving regular contact with children, eirher paid or unpaid, to any person listed as unsuitable to work with children on the Department of Health list.

So where it says in the EYFS page 18 that - 'Providers must have effective systems in place to ensure that practitioners, and any other person who is likely to have regular contact with children (including those living or working on the premises), are suitable.' The protection of Children Act 1999 is what it is refering to. Your setting's policy will also reflect this wording.

Because your setting needs to make sure it employs people or enables people to work closely with children it has to have a way to do that which is where the The Disclosure and Barring Servicecomes in, page 88 quote;


The Disclosure and Barring service helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children. (It replaces the Criminal Records Bureau CRB and Independent Safeguarding Authority ISA. The DBS acts as a central access point for crimminal record checks for all those applyimg to work with children and young people.

Check your setting's policieis and procedures to see what they say about staff haveing DBS checks.

Page 88 The Children Act 2004

This Act placed a duty on local authorities and their partners (including the police, health service providers and the youth justice system) to cooperate in promoting the well-being of children and young people and to make arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

The Act put the new Local Safeguarding Children Boards on a statutory footing (replacing the non-statutory Area Child Protection Committees), and gave them powers of investigation and review procedures which they use to review all child deaths in their area, as required by the Working Together to Safeguard Children statutory guidance.

The Act also revised the legislation on physical punishment by making it an offence to hit a child if it causes mental harm or leaves a lasting mark on the skin. This repealed the section of The Children and Young Persons Act 1933 which provided parents with the defence of 'reasonable chastisement'.

Search inside the amazon book preview for the words 'Working together' and click to page 87

Hope this helps xx