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our – Understand how to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Children and Young People.
1) Give a brief outline of current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people.
There are many different types of legislation and guidelines affecting the safeguarding of children and young people.
The Children Act (1989) outlines that duties are assigned to local authorities, courts, parents and other agencies in the UK to ensure that children and young people are safeguarded and their welfare is promoted, involved in any decisions which may affect them and consulted about their wishes and feelings.
The Children Act (2004) is an amendment of the Children Act (1989) and outlines
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The Equality Act (2010) is the basis of anti-discrimination legislation in the UK, promotion the welfare of children and young people by protecting their rights to fair treatment.
The Children and Families Act (2014) outlines requirements to promote the welfare of children and young people who have educational needs and disabilities and children in the care of the local authority.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) includes statements regarding equality for all children and young people, which promotes their welfare and protects their rights.
The Common Assessment Framework for children and young people (2009) aims to help the early identification of children and young people's additional needs, such as co-ordinated service provision and promoting information sharing.
Working Together to Safeguard Children (2013) outlines the legal requirements for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, the roles and requirements of professionals, and how organisations and individuals should work together to keep children safe from
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A serious case review is an examination of all the evidence presented if a child dies as a result of suspected or actual abuse or neglect. A serious case review is conducted by the Local Safeguarding Children's Board (LSCB) and combines all organisations involved in the case, such as the police, health and education and the children's social care. Each organisation will conduct an independent enquiry into their management of the case and make recommendations for future improvements.
The LSCB must also conduct a serious case review considering all the possible reasons of a child's death or where abuse or neglect is known or suspected. For example, if a child sustains a potentially life threatening injury through abuse or neglect.
The purpose of a serious case review is to establish whether there are any lessons to be learnt from the cause about inter-agency working and identify clearly what these lessons are, how they will be acted upon and what is expected to change as a result. This in turn means that inter-agency working can be improved to safeguard and promote the welfare of
If the local authority establishes that the child is a child in need or at risk of harm, it has a duty under section 47 of the Children Act (1989) to make a care plan or child protection plan to provide support which involves adequate supervision and checks to ensure that the child is no longer at risk. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) promotes empowerment for children as they can exercise their right to express their views and be heard and their best interest would be at the centre of the intervention and social workers need to ensure that decisions made are not affected by the influence from family or professionals they work with (Lee & Hudson,
Wilson, K. and Adrian J. L. (2007) The Child Protection Handbook: The Practitioner's Guide to Safeguarding Children. Edinburgh: Bailliere Tindall
Ward, H. et al, 2012. Safeguarding babies and very young children from abuse and neglect. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. P 205.
P1: To outline why children and young people may need to be looked after away from their families.
Legislations are laws derived from current government policies and outlines rules and principles that everybody must follow. (Peteiro et al, 2017) There are multiple, current, legalisation that have been created in regards to the safeguarding of children and adults. The Data Protection Act of 1998, for instance, was created as a way to control how organisations use personal information. In a health and social care setting, the Data protection act ensures that personal information about individuals will be kept confidential and not misused. The act gives service users the right to determine how their personal data is used and who it is used by to prevent the risk of the information not being private and being put at risk for abuse. (Peteiro et al, 2017) This includes things such as date of birth, national insurance number and medical history. If certain personal information is not protected, then it puts the individual at risk of harm, or abuse. The Data Protection Act safeguards individuals against this. Similarly, The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 safeguards against children and adults by ensuring that only appropriate persons are allowed to work with certain groups. This act created the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) who deal with criminal record checks and overlooks the Barred Children’s and Barred Adult’s Lists of unsuitable
LONG, L., ROCHE, J. and STRINGER, D., 2010. The law and social work: contemporary issues for practice. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
...d, ‘so far as the threshold conditions are concerned, the factor which seems to me to outweigh all others is the prospect than an unidentified, and unidentifiable, carer may inflict further injury on a child he or she has already severely damaged’. This approach was later applied in Merton LBC v K .
The parent or caretaker may claim that the child did not intend to hurt the child, that the injury was an accident. It may however, have been the result of over-discipline or physical punishment that is inappropriate to the child?s age. In 1998 NCANDS (National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System) calculated the Fatalities by Maltreatment, Child Abuse and Neglect.... ... middle of paper ... ...
The legislation regarding safeguarding and chid protection ensures that all the children are safe, secure and protected from any kind of potential harm which may affect their health or development.
Ifezue G. Rajabali M., ‘Protecting the interests of the child’ [2013] Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 1: 77–85
The Daniel Pelka serious case review is one of many that are conducted around the United Kingdom every year. A serious case review is a local enquiry into the death or serious injury of a child, where abuse or neglect are known or suspected. These are conducted by the Local Safeguarding Children Boards; with the main focus being on what lessons can be learnt locally to prevent this from happening again (Brandon, Bailey, Belderson, 2010). In this textual analysis we will be looking back at previous case reviews including Jasmine Beckford and Baby P. We will then look at what recommendations have been made and use the Peka case to see weather we have learned from our previous mistakes or are we still in the same position now as we where then.
United Nations (1989). Convention on the Rights of the Child.[online] Available at: [Accessed 1 April 2014].
As a Child Protective worker, my responsibilities are to assess safety (immediate), risk (future harm), abuse and maltreatment, and make a determination as to whether a child is safe or at risk of future harm and assess the need for services. The child welfare worker assigned to investigate the case failed to ensure the above. Works Cited Downs-Whitelaw, S., Moore, E., & McFadden, E. J. (2009). The 'Standard' of the 'Standard'.
LSCB, (2013), SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND VULNERABLE ADULTS POLICY, (www.safechildren-cios.co.uk), [Assessed 1 November 2013].
Commission for Social Care Inspection (2005) Making Every Child Matter, Commission for Social Care Inspection