Cyp 33 1.1

[zeta]

Hi. I've been working on safeguarding CYP 3.3 for nearly 5 weeks. this assignment is driving me crazy. can anyone please help me with the questions:

1.1 Outline current legislation. guidelines. policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people.

1.2 Explain child protection within the wider concept of safeguarding children and young people

been a mum of 4 kids and working full time it's not easy.

PLEASE HELP ME

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi, welcome to the site . There are many threads for both of these criteria. If you enter 'current legislation guidelines policies' into the search page, and 'child protection within the wider concept' as another search they'll be returned for you.

1.1 will depend which home nation you live in eg. if you in England, or Wales, or Scotland, or Northern Ireland

A handbook will also help structure research for you if you have access to one xx

Enjoy the site

Amazon.co.uk for CYPW handbooks

[kerry-lou]

im currently on this assignment but i've nearly finished thank god!

for 1.1 i wrote about what the following do:

working together to safeguard children (2010) this applies if you live in england

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989

Framework for Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (2002)

What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused (2003)

The Protection of Children Act 1999

The children Act 2004

[zeta]

thank you for your help. I've managed to finish the whole assignment. hopefully it will be signed off.

[stonenat]

Explain how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in own work settings or service.
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
This legislation places a duty on employers for the health and safety of their employees and anyone else on the premises. In schools this includes responsibility for the Head Teacher, teachers, non-teaching staff, pupils, visitors and contractors. As my setting is a voluntary aided school the employer is the governing body. Under this Act they have a duty to ensure:
* the health, safety and welfare of teachers and other education staff
* the health and safety of pupils in school and off-site on visits
* the health and safety of visitors to the school and volunteers involved with school activities.
Under the Health and Safety Act 1974 as an employee I have rights and responsibilities for my own well-being and that of my colleagues. My rights as an employee to work in a safe and healthy environment are given to me by law and generally cannot be taken away or changed by my employer. My most important rights are:
* to have any risks to my health and safety properly controlled as far as possible
* to be provided with any personal protective and safety equipment free of charge
* to have rest breaks during the working day, time off from work during the working week and to have an annual paid holiday
* to stop work and leave my work area, without being disciplined, if I have reasonable concerns about my safety
* to tell my employer about any health and safety concerns I may have
* if my employer will not listen to my concerns, to get in touch with the HSE or my local authority, without being disciplined
My most important responsibilities as an employee are:
* to take reasonable care of my own health and safety
* to take reasonable care not to put other people at risk by what I do or don’t do during the course of my work
* to make sure I understand the schools health and safety policies and follow them
* to report any injuries, strains or illnesses that I suffer as a result of doing my job
* not to interfere with or misuse anything that has been provided for my own health, safety or welfare
* to tell my employer if something happens that might affect my ability to work
* to avoid wearing loose clothing or jewelry if operating machinery
* to have long hair covered or tucked away
* to notify my employer if any medication I may be taking makes me drowsy.

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Health and safety in the workplace needs to be managed in order for continuous improvements to be made. The main requirement of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations is that employers must carry out risk assessments to eliminate or reduce risks. In addition employers also need to:
* make arrangements for implementing the health and safety measures identified by risk assessments
* monitor and review these arrangements – see attached Health and Safety policy – no.9
* appoint people with the sufficient knowledge, skills, experience and training to help them to implement these arrangements
* set up emergency procedures and provide information about them to employees – see attached Health and Safety policy – no.10
* provide clear information, supervision and training for employees and ensure that suitably competent people are appointed who are capable of carrying out tasks entrusted to them
* work together with any other employer operating from the same workplace, sharing information on the risks that other staff may be exposed to e.g. in my school setting catering staff, maintenance contractors etc who use the school setting – see attached Health and Safety policy – no.6
* take particular account of risks to new and expectant mothers
See attached Pregnant Workers policy

The Education (School Premises) Regulations 1999
For all school settings, the condition of the premises should provide sufficient assurance as to the health, safety and welfare of all of the people who use the building. Good standards of hygiene should be always be maintained and there should be sufficient space so over-crowding is avoided. The Education (School Premises) Regulations stipulate:
* that there should be a certain amount of toilets for children, depending on age and needs.
* staff toilets must be separate from those for pupils.
* every school must have a staff room, separate from teaching accommodation for teachers and staff to use for work and social purposes.
* every school has a room for medical or dental examinations and the care of sick and injured pupils.
* each room in a school building must have acoustic conditions and insulation against disturbance by noise appropriate to its normal use.
* school buildings must be reasonably resistant to penetration by rain, snow, wind and rising damp.
* buildings and equipment are adequately maintained, with dangerous defects being repaired promptly and records retained.
* that is must be possible for every part of a school building to be safely evacuated in case of fire.
* that the school building has adequate lighting, heating and ventilation.
These are implemented with the school setting by our premises staff that do regular inspections of the school buildings and grounds to check that all maintenance issues are up to date. We have a separate first-aid room within the school and have 2 toilet blocks for every 4 classroom. Staff toilets are separate from that of pupils.

Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
These regulations cover a wide range of basic health, safety and welfare issues and apply to most workplaces (with the exception of construction work on construction sites, those in or on a ship, or below ground in a mine). These regulations deal with physical conditions in the workplace and require employers to meet minimum standards in relation to a wide range of matters, which include:
* maintenance of buildings and equipment
* lighting
* provision of drinking water
* temperature
* rest facilities
* ventilation
* toilet facilities
* first aid
See Health and Safety policy

The Manual Handling Operations regulations 1992
These regulations require employers to minimise the health risks associated with manual handling, a term we use to describe activities which involve lifting, carrying, moving, holding, pushing, lowering, pulling or restraining an object, person or animal.
Employers should:
* avoid the need to lift, carry, push, pull, lower or support loads wherever possible
* where tasks cannot be avoided use trolleys, barrows, lifts or hoists to help
* carry out risk assessments, which take into account the work task, the activity involved, individual capacity, working environment and other factors.
See Handling and Lifting policy


The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences (RIDDOR) 1995
Under these regulations certain work-related accidents are reportable by law to the Health and Safety Executive or the local authority. The following must be reported:
* the death of any person
* a major injury to any person at work
* hospital treatment of any person who is not at work (e.g. pupil/student)
* an accident which results in a person at work being incapacitated for more than three consecutive days (excluding the day of the accident)
* specified dangerous occurrences, e.g. building collapse
* specified work-related diseases, e.g. mesothelioma and hepatitis.
See First-Aid and Reporting of Accidents policy

The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981
These regulations state that employers must provide “adequate and appropriate equipment, facilities and qualified first-aid personnel”. The Regulations do not oblige employers to provide first aid for anyone other than their own staff, however employers do have health and safety responsibilities towards non-employees. Every employer should provide at least one fully stocked first-aid box for each site which must be marked with a white cross on a green background. Additional first-aid boxes will be needed for split-sites, sports fields/playgrounds and any other high risk areas or off-site activities. First-aid boxes, where possible, should be sited near to hand washing facilities. The first-aid boxes in my school setting are and should be:
* prominently marked as first-aid containers
* readily available for use
* maintained in a good condition
* suitable for the purpose of keeping first-aid supplies
See attached Health and Safety policy – no.11

Health and Safety Officer
One member of the school should have sole responsibility for health, safety and first aid, this person can be a designated member of staff who can be a central source of information and can pass on understanding gained in any training sessions they have attended. This role falls to our HLTA within my school setting. The duties of this appointed person can include:
* keeping an up to date list of first-aiders
* arranging first aid training
* arranging for everyone to be made aware of safety policies and first aid provisions
* regularly inspecting the Accident and Injury book
* compiling a check list for accident prevention and safety
* notifying the management of all matters requiring their attention such as potentially serious incidents
The Health and Safety Officer is responsible for distributing information on all health and safety issues. A Health and Safety poster is displayed in a prominent position in our staff-rooms and our Office Manager ensures that all new employees know where to find copies of the Health and Safety policies within the school and the whereabouts of safety equipment which includes first-aid boxes, safety signage, fire extinguishers, fire blankets, alarm and emergency exits.

Not sure if this is the right one you need still looking through my saved docs.

[stonenat]

wrong one getting there LOL

[stonenat]

Hope this is what you need!

Outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people.

Child welfare policies and initiatives target the care, health and well-being of children, ensuring they grow up in a safe environment and making sure they receive the sort of care that enables them to reach their full potential. These policies and initiatives aim to protect children from the harmful effects of poverty, family and parenting problems, child abuse and neglect and inadequate resources.

The Children Act 1989
Children Act 1989 actively encourages good anti-racist and anti-discriminatory practice. This reform upholds a number of principles, one being that a child’s welfare is paramount when making decisions about a child’s upbringing. It introduced the concept of parental responsibility which sets out the rights, duties of power and responsibilities of the parent or carer of a child. It also outlines what local authorities and the courts should do to protect the welfare of children.

The Children Act 2004
This did not replace or even amend the Children Act 1989, but sets out the process for providing services to children so that every child can achieve the five outcomes described in the “Every Child Matters” green paper;
* Be healthy
* Stay safe
* Enjoy and achieve
* Make a positive contribution
* Achieve economic well-being
It requires local authorities to take the lead through multi-agency children’s trusts, to develop a children and young people’s plan and to set up a shared database of children, containing information relevant to their welfare. This means that the organisations involved with providing services to children - including schools - will be teaming up, sharing information and working together to protect children and young people from harm and help them achieve what they want in life

Childcare Act 2006
The new Childcare Act is the first ever act to be solely concerned with early years and childcare. Measures in the act set out important strategic roles for local authorities to play through a set of new duties. These duties will require authorities to:
* Improve the five Every Child Matters outcomes for all pre-school children and reduce inequalities in these outcomes
* Secure sufficient childcare for working parents
* Provide a better parental information service
The act also reforms and simplifies early year’s regulation and inspection arrangements. The act’s main provisions came into place in 2008.

Every Child Matters
Every Child Matters: Change for Children is a new approach to the well-being of children and young people from birth to age 19. The Every Child Matters: Change for Children programme aims to put in place a national framework to support the joining up of services so that every child can achieve the five Every Child Matters outcomes. Support will be provided in the following areas;
* To ensure that support for parents becomes routine, particularly at key points in a child or young person’s life because parents, carers and families are the most important influence on outcomes for children and young people.
* Social services will play a key role in trying to improve outcomes for the most vulnerable. They will be achieving change through closing the gap between their outcomes and those of the majority of children and young people.
* The government, in partnership with local areas, is working to make sure parents and families have access to the support that they need, when they need it, so that all children can benefit from confident, positive and resilient parenting, from birth through to the teenage years.

United Nations Convention in the Rights of the Child 1989
This act includes the right to protection from abuse, the right to express their views and to have them listened to and the right to care. It also includes services for disabled children and children living away from home.

The Human Rights Act 1989
The Act makes it unlawful for public authorities to act in a manner which is incompatible with the rights and freedoms contained in the act. It also requires the Government and the courts to ensure that the court rulings and new Bills are compatible with the new Act wherever possible. These include the right to respect for private and family life.

Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCB)
A LSCB is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how relevant organisations in each local area will co-operate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and for ensuring the effectiveness of what they do. Relevant organisations might include health, education, early years, children’s social care and other agencies such as the Youth Justice team. The work of the LSCB covers three areas:
1. Carry out actions that –
* safeguard all children
* make sure that children receive effective and safe care
* aim to identify and prevent impairment of health or development and maltreatment
2. Lean and co-ordinate those agencies that provide responsive work to protect children who are suffering or likely to suffer significant harm.
3. Lead and co-ordinate proactive work aimed at specific target groups.
LSCB’s are required to carry out the following duties:
* develop policies and procedures regarding
- how and when to take action if concerns are raised about the safety and welfare of a child
- child safety and welfare training for those who work in children’s services
- recruitment and supervision of people who work with children
- investigating allegations made about people who work with children
- safety and welfare of children who are privately fostered
- co-operating with neighbouring children’s services authorities and their LSCB partners
* raise awareness of safeguarding issues
* participate in the planning and commissioning of services
* monitor and evaluate safeguarding issues
* undertaking Serious Case Reviews
* review the deaths of all children in their areas

Working Together to Safeguard Children provides guidance on what you should do if you have a concern about the welfare of a child and it recommends a number of principles that should underpin the work of those practitioners who work with children and their families. This document emphasises the importance of each practitioner to:
* provide a safe learning environment for children and young people
* identify children and young people who are suffering or likely to suffer significant harm
* take appropriate action

What to Do If You’re Worried a Child is Being Abused (DfES, 2003) is a guide to helping practitioners work together to promote the welfare of children and safeguard them from harm. It reinforces the Every Child Matters publication by stressing how important it is for all practitioners with responsibility for providing children’s services, to work collaboratively to an agreed plan of action.

See attached Safeguarding policy

Explain child protection within the wider concept of safeguarding children and young people.

Safeguarding is not just about protecting children or young people from direct abuse. Any service that works with children or young people has a wider role than just protecting them from abuse and neglect.
To fulfil their commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people, all organisations that provide services for children, parents or families, or work with children, should have in place:
* policies for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children including a child protection policy, effective complaints procedures and procedures that comply with guidance from the local authority and locally agreed inter-agency procedures
* procedures that ensure all staff, including temporary staff and volunteers, are made aware of the organisation’s arrangements and their responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
* arrangements that ensure they are able to work effectively with other organisations to safeguard and promote the welfare of children including arrangements for sharing information
* a system that makes appropriate checks on new staff and volunteers, adopts best practice when recruiting new staff and volunteers and takes account of the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people
* arrangements that ensure the organisation is adequately equipped to understand, identify and lessen the risks of new technology so as to help keep children and young people stay safe online
* procedures for dealing with allegations of abuse against members of staff and volunteers
* a culture within the senior management team that is committed to safeguarding and promoting children’s welfare
* an organisational culture that listens to and seeks children’s views in ways appropriate to their age and understanding and considers these when making decisions and developing and improving services
* a system that ensures all staff undertake appropriate training and regular refresher training so they can carry out their responsibilities
* procedures for whistle blowing
In practice, the wider forms of safeguarding within the school setting also include:
* Risk assessments, providing safe environment/resources inside and out of the setting
* Adhering to policies, procedures and legislations – Health and Safety, fire drills etc
* Assessing observations to identify additional support needs of a child
* Enhanced CRB checks
* Wearing ID badges to identify ourselves
* Signing in and out of the work place
* Making sure other adults are present when in close contact with certain children
* Adhering to ICT and on-line safety issues

Analyse how national and local guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding affect day to day work with children and young people.

As well as having a safeguarding policy of our own at school, our local city council have their own policies and procedures for safeguarding children. I am aware that Peterborough City Council has its own safeguarding policy. The Peterborough Safeguarding Children Board (PSCB) is a statutory board which has been set up as part of the Every Child Matters reforms and requires all organisations that work with children to co-operate to keep children safe from harm. This board is a legal body that was established by Peterborough City Council as a children’s services authority under the Children’s Act 2004.
The PSCB is responsible for ensuring that all agencies and departments working within the area work in unity to support the welfare and safety of children. The PSCB raises awareness of safeguarding issues in the community by conducting training with a designated safeguarding officer in all Peterborough schools. They monitor the success of the work that is done by local agencies to guarantee that all practitioners within the area have a clear understanding of safeguarding procedures, policies and requirements. The PSCB identifies multi-agency success where there are concerns with regards to safeguarding issues and they assist with the recognition of training needs and requirements across the children’s workforce.
Within the school setting we must be aware that we have a clear and defined role in relation to child protection. Professionals working with children and young people should be fully trained in safeguarding by a nominated safeguarding adviser and have the opportunity to receive training in order to develop their understanding of the signs and indicators of abuse or neglect, this training is offered every 3 years. In order for child protection to work effectively we need to ensure we have good inter relationships with other agencies and good co-operation from professionals that are competent in responding to child protection situations.
Procedures must be in place for recording concerns and incidents if a child discloses information regarding his/her welfare. We must make a record of exactly what the child has said, in their own words, reporting it to the safeguarding officer, ensuring that these records are kept confidentially and separate from pupil records.
The safeguarding officer (the Head teacher in my school setting) gives guidance on confidentiality and the sharing of information and 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 and that if a child discloses “a secret” then they must explain, sensitively, that they have a duty to tell the appropriate people who can help.
Children and young people attend school expecting to be nurtured and taught by people who are both paid and unpaid, these adults should provide children with the opportunities to learn and gain knowledge of a range of subjects whilst keeping them safe. All adults within the school setting have a responsibility to the children we work with; a code of conduct provides us with clear guidelines on the types of practice that will meet these responsibilities. Good conduct not only prevents incidents and allegations that we may find ourselves being an element of, but will also help to highlight any conduct but other people that is unsafe and unprofessional.

Hope this helps, if you need any more just let me know xxx

[jenmaz2468]

Thank you ever so much

[fifi77]

hi please i need help pleaseeeeeeee
2.1 explain roles and responsibility in relation to safeguarding ,protection and welfare of children.
2.2 explain the boundaries of confidentiality in relation to the safeguarding ,protection and welfare of children.

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi, your work contract and job description as well as any staff literature the setting has to support your professional practice will detail what your role is in the setting regarding safeguarding - your duty of care, legal obligation to keep children from harm and to act appropriately in order to protect the welfare of each child. This would involve reporting concerns, recording disclosures in the way your setting expects, following the procedures of any policy that shows how to check and minimise risk, explains who you need to talk/liase with about safeguarding issues.

About confidentiality on safenetwork.org

There's also guidance for 3.3 on pages 109+ of the level 3 handbook - on amazon.co.uk

Hth xx