Safeguarding_the_Welfare_of_Children_and_Young_People

Unit 3 Safeguarding The Welfare of Children and Young People Explain the outcomes of the Every Child Matters agenda (1.1). Every Child Matters is every child is to be treated equally regardless of background, race, ability and sexual orientation. It is recognised that every child should have the support they need. Children should be protected from harm, promoted from their well being. Every Child Matters is the national framework which gives them opportunities to provide services example schools, hospitals and the police for children. There are five outcomes of every child matters: Be healthy, Stay safe, Enjoy and achieve, Make a positive contribution and Achieve economic well being. Be healthy is the development of healthy life style and healthy eating in children example sports, exercise, drinking of water. The Staff plan healthy meals and snacks for children. Schools have equipment for children to do physical education which is part of the curriculum. They can also eat five fruits a day both at school and at home. Stay Safe involves children in creating a safe environment. The staff should check the environment and resources to see if it is suitable for the children. Staff should have training regularly and plan policies and procedures example child protection, protecting young people from bullying and other danger and be CRB checked. Children should be safe from harm. Enjoy and achieve is enjoying education and training. Children’s progress should be monitored. They should be provided with child –initiated and adult led activities. Allow children to challenge, be creative and do problem solving. Children have freedom of choices. Making a positive contribution children and young people learn about the environment and create an environment that has choices and decision making. Encourage children to explore own identity and show respect for their contributions. By making young people develop independent behaviour. Economic Well –being includes ways in which providers prepare learners for the skills and knowledge needed for employment example teamwork, career advice and training. Children play to develop skills and reach their full potential. Parents should engage in their children’s learning. These five outcomes are The Children Act 2004. Identify the current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people including safety (1.1). Children’s Act 1989 introduced children’s rights, children’s needs and child protection. This Act looks at involving parents and making families join together. Schools should be inspected and staff that work with children should respect their race, culture, religion and language so that each child is valued as an individual. This Act protects children at risk of harm and neglect from negative outcomes and support all children to develop the full potential. Children’s Act 2004 is concerned with child protection. This Act states that the interest of children and young people are established in all consideration of welfare and safeguarding. Children are everyone’s responsibility. Safeguarding can only be achieved by improving the outcomes for children and young people including their health, education, development and safety. The Education Act 2002 which sets out the responsibilities of Local Education Authorities, governing bodies, head teachers and everyone else that works in schools to ensure that children are safe and free from harm. Working together to safeguard children 2010 is those that work with people in health, education, social services, police and probation officers. This guideline provides guidance on how organisations and practitioner work together to keep children safe and promote the welfare of children and young people. Bullying is deliberately hurtful behaviour. It is usually repeated, often over a period of time and when it is difficult for those being bullied to defend themselves. There are a number of types of bullying: emotional, physical, verbal, racist, sexual and cyber bullying. Bullying makes people unhappy and leads to low self-esteem. Pupils who are being bullied are unlikely to concentrate fully on their schoolwork. Some pupils avoid being bullied by not attending school. Cyber bullying is the deliberate, repeated and intentional victimisation of a person who cannot easily defend themselves by using computer example malicious messages sent by text or to the web are cyber bullying. Hacking into some ones account or changing their profile or posting embarrassing personal information about another person. Cyber bullying can happen during the day or at night. Another example us that somebody might click on a new face book group which has been set up for the specific purposes of bullying somebody and comment without thinking. Safeguarding and protecting is protecting children from maltreatment, abuse and neglect. Ensuring that risks of harm to children are reduced and preventing children’s health or development. Ensure that every child has the opportunity to fulfil their potential. It also promotes children’s welfare. Any concern about any child should be reported to designated person using an initial concerns form. The designated person will be informed immediately by an employee of the school, pupil of the school, parent of the school, other persons. The designated person will keep a full record of concerns raised. The Local Safeguarding Children Board is the rules or laws responsible for protecting children and young people from harm and their welfare example parents, health, professionals, education and community sector. Describe the roles of different agencies involved in safeguarding the welfare of young people and children. (1.2) Children’s Social Care safeguards and promotes the welfare of the needs of children. They work together with parents and other agencies example social services and social workers. If a child is at risk of harm or abuse it will be the social worker to take care of the matter. Social services support children and their families and provide them with funding and support to meet the children’s needs. They conduct problems and any criminality they go to police. Social services liaise between the school and family and are trained to carry out investigation. Police work with the social worker if children are harmed. If crime has been committed by any body example if a child is missing the investigation is done by the police. The police gather evidence from children, social care worker and people who are involved in the incident. They also go to court when crime is committed. Health Professionals support children. Health visitors visit mothers when they have a baby. General Practitioner (G.p,) Health visitors, nurses can look at children with injuries.. The Gp tells social workers when a child is suspected of abuse. They carry out observation on a child if a child is at risk of abuse and harm. Before seeing any child, the staff sees a child you will have ask permission from the parent. National Society for the Protection of the Children Charity is a registered charity that prevents cruelty to children. They provide a range of services for children and their families. They also provide child protection helpline. It also helps if a child has concerns with welfare. List the signs and symptoms of common childhood illnesses (2.1) |Illness |Signs and Symptoms |What to do | |Flu |Runny nose, sneezing, head ache and |Give plenty of fluid. | | |weakness | | |Chicken pox |Rash, high temperature, cough, blisters |Give plenty to drink. | | | |Give Paracetamol. | |Measles |Cough, watery eyes, fever, red brown |Take the child to the G P. | | |spots |Put Vaseline around the lips. | |Diarrhoea and Vomiting |Stomach pain, dehydration, |Give the child a lot of fluid so that | | | |they do not get dehydrated. | |Mumps |Swollen glands, fever, pain when |Give the child Paracetamol. | | |swallowing. | | |Ring Worm |Red rash, skill ringworm, scaly patches |Wash the affected area and pat with a | | |on scalp. |towel. | | | |Apply ointment to the affected area. | Write a brief description of the action to take when children or young people are ill or injured (2.2) The action I would take when children or young people are injured is that if the child is ill I would inform the class teacher which will then phone the parents to collect the child. But if there is an injury, the first aider would be notified, I would stay with the child till some help becomes available. Record the injury in an incident or accident report book. Inform parents and carers. Identify circumtances when children and young people might require urgent medical attention(2.3) When there is an accident I will call for help immediately. Find out what happened so that when calling 999 you can give them the exact information. The action I would taken is by talking to the child, I would not move the child, I would put the child in the recovery position if unconscious, I would not give the child any drink. Then I will place a coat over the child. Then make sure the area is kept clear by children. Make sure that the accident is recorded in an accident book with the time, the place, date. Identify assess and respond to a real stimulated medical emergency and complete an accident /incident report form (2.4) The child fell down in the play ground and hurt her knee. I would inform the first aider for treatment but by then I would make sure that other kids are safe. Then I will stay with the child till help comes. All information will be recorded in the accident report book. Accident Report Name of Child Date and Time Action taken – call parent/carer Emergencies attended Who was present Where and how did accident happen Sign and Date Describe the actions to take in response to emergency situations including, fires, security incidents, and missing children or young people (2.4). The actions to take in response to fire are: On hearing the alarm, escort the children from the building to the junior playground. The person in charge will detail a member of staff to call the fire brigade immediately by telephone. Dial ‘999’. Give operator the telephone number and ask for FIRE. When fire brigade replies give this message distinctly. Do not replace telephone receiver by fire brigade. Call fire brigade immediately to every fire or suspiction of fire. Call the roll at assembly point and report missing persons to a senior member of staff or fire brigade. Identify the characteristics of different types of child abuse (3.1). Physical Abuse are: Scalding, Burning, bruise, bleeding, swells and change of behaviour. Neglect Abuse are: Behavioural problems, being left attended. Undernourished, not fed or washed. Emotional Abuse are constantly wetting themselves, bad temper- aggressive, very quiet and withdrawn, lack of confidence and bullying, crying, sensitive and nervous. Sexual Abuse are appropriate touch, inappropriate touch, inappropriate sexualised behaviour. Financial Abuse is cheating, disability. Describe the risk and possible consequences for children and young people using the internet mobile phones and other technologies (3.2). This type of risk can happen through emails, text messages on the phone. Cyber bully is repeating and intentional victimisation of a person who cannot easily defend themselves by using computers. Children access the internet both at home and at school. They access the internet from mobile phone and online game. This is why children and young people should not use the internet unless they are using it to do their school work. The part of the site that is inappropriate for children should be locked and any adult should have a pass word if they want to use the internet. Risk when children use the internet is that they should not disclose information about themselves, they should not put pictures on face book, Twister and my space because of peter files, also they should stop watching horror movies because this can cause them to harm themselves. Talking to friends on the internet is very dangerous for children and young people which can cause them to be killed or raped. Children and young people must always be supervised when using the computers in schools and at home. Bullying on the internet, and social networks can cause suicides and death. Describe the actions to take in response to concerns that a colleague may be: a) failing to comply. With safe guarding procedures b) harming, abusing or bulling a child or young person (3.4). It could be the child was abused at home. In such action to take in response to the child being abused, harmed, I will report it to the child protection coordinator, in which is if the child protection coordinator, in which is if the abuse is very serious I will then report it to social services, then after that the staff will then contact the parent and ask the parent what happened. But if it is not a serious abuse, the staff will only report it to the child protection coordinator who will later contact the parent for their own explanation. If the child was abused at school by a member of staff, it will be reported to the child protection coordinator which will then be reported to the inclusion manager, then later that staff that abused the child will be sacked from the school. Descri