Within this document we are looking into to protection power and participation from an early year’s education perspective. With regards to the child voice being heard and how partnership with parents and other professional are so important in ensuring the child’s welfare.. During this document there will be lots on different policy’s, legislation and how theses reflect in practice ensuring the child is paramount throughout. During all theses process there should be someone advocating for the child this will explore who and how they keep the child’s views in mind. I will be using this quote from Munro during this document to help look into legal documents “A major challenge in building a more responsive child protection system is helping a …show more content…
This is where Munro (2011) believes the system should be child-centred. Giving the child the chance to tell their story and what they want to happen to them. This means that professionals need to listen and take on board children’s opinions. From this professionals need to work as a team. This starts at the top with the government working with health professionals and local authorities to ensure everyone is on the same page working to the same guidance. Looking on pervious lessons learnt thresholds differ in different areas as types of neglect can be more common. Munro (2011) says about how far dose a child have to endure neglect before intervention? This should be the same across the whole country. Munro (2011) believes that there needs to be an overall guideline to what is acceptable. Supporting and encouraging learning of professionals involved with children, but is this an affordable option? Ofsted (2015) inspection take place to ensure good practice in all areas, but Munro (2011) believes all multi-agency service should be included within the framework. Where is the child voice with in this framework? During practice my main concern is with the child. When a concern is raised we have to call our area safeguarding officer or local area designated officer …show more content…
They believe the system should be child centred allowing them then to be part of decisions made about their life. Expressing their views needs and wants. Professional should listen to what the child has to tell and this should help proceedings get dealt with quickly. This is very similar to the Munro (2011). After Munro (2011) released her review the working together to safeguard children (2010) was revised and largely cut down. Taking on board many of Munro's (2011) points resulting in a new Working together to safeguard children ( 2013) version. In this statutory guidance all non-statutory guidance has been removed. This now states that child protection is everyone’s responsibility to the end of their known role where if a concern is raised it will be passed onto whomever is the next professional to work with. Working with other professionals is seen to be of high importance to maintain the best outcome for the child though sharing information. This guidance sees the importance in regular meetings about cases to discuss concerns and come to a joint decision involving everyone’s perceptive. These meeting will work well as long as it is child centred and there voice heard like Munro (2011) suggests. These meetings will make the system more responsive with shorter time scales add in. To keep professional at high child centred ability they will
There are many legislations and guidelines affecting safeguarding of children and young people. The Children Act 1989, assigns duties to local authorities, courts, parents and other agencies to ensure children are safeguarded, their welfare promoted and for children to be consulted in decisions affecting them. The Children's Act 2004 made amendments to the act of 1989 after the failings regarding Victoria Climbe. It places duty on local authorities to work together and share information introducing local Safeguarding Boards to work collaboratively to safeguard children and young people. This includes the five outcomes of Every Child Matters 2003. The Childcare Act 0f 2006 introduced plans for children aged 0-5 to
Children Act 1989 – Determines the duty of early year’s practitioners to identify and meet the separate and distinctive needs of children and to keep them safe. It initiated the belief that the child ought to be at the centre of planning and that a child’s well-being and safety are vital when judgements are made concerning them. This act also recognises the accountabilities of parents in keeping their offspring safe. In this act there are two particular segments that relate to the duty of local authority with concern to child protection, these are-
The Children Act 1989 – Places a duty on all child care practitioners within a setting to not only identify but also to meet the needs of every individual child as well as keeping them safe. The Act introduced the idea of child led planning, placing the child at the center of any planning made regarding their own learning and development. The act also specifies the responsibility of the parent in keeping their own child safe and free from harm.
Following these proposals from Lord Laming, there have been developments in legislation and policy, which involve children’s welfare, one of which was the Green Paper of Every Child Matters (ECM) (DfES, 2003), a pre legislative document from the government of the day. This built upon existing plans to strengthen preventative services using the four key themes of: support, early intervention, problems addressed in the Victoria Climbie case and ensuring adults working with children are trained. The ECM Green Paper was the basis of a consultation between professionals, parents, cares and children about how the services for young people were working. Following from this, the government developed and parliament passed the Children Act
It has been debated that children and families have received poor service because of the failure of professionals in understanding each other’s roles or working together in a multi-disciplinary
Lord lemmings report on the death of Victoria Climbie brought into force the children act 2004 which requires all local authorities across England and Wales to set up a local safeguarding children board. This states that each area should promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people. LSCB replaced the Area Child Protection Committees and stated all agencies should work together to protect children. An assessment is carried out annually to make sure all agencies are working to promote safeguarding and welfare of children. EVERY CHILD MATTERS.
Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people is extremely important. It involves more than just protecting children from abuse – it also includes promoting their interests, keeping them safe and protecting their rights.
The children act 1989 has influenced some settings by bringing together several sets of guidance and provided the foundation for many of the standards practitioners sustain and maintain when working with children. The act requires that settings work together in the best interests of the child and form partnerships with parents or carers. It requires settings to have appropriate adult to child ratios and policies and procedures on child protection. This act has had an influence in all areas of practice from planning a curriculum and record keeping. The every child matters framework has
1.1 Outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people
The importance of interagency working in the safeguarding and protection of children in the UK
Working Together to safeguard children 2015 is a statutory guidance and says ‘’specific duties in relation to children’s need and children suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm.’’ (Gov.uk)
Working together to safeguard children 2006 sets out how organisations and individuals should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people in accordance with the Children’s Act 1989 and the Children’s Act 2004. It is important that all practitioners within settings and environments looking and caring after children and young people must know their responsibilities and duties in order to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people, following their legislations, policies and procedures.
There has been certain legislation in the United Kingdom along with home policies and procedures that affect the safeguarding of children and young people. Policies and procedures for safeguarding and child protection in England and Wales are the result of the Children Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004 brought more changes that affected the way the child protection system works here in the United Kingdom and so affecting the safeguarding of children and young people. Through the protection policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people, settings which work with children and young people have an important role in the
Legislations and procedures are put into place to protect the welfare of children, schools and childcare settings. Adults who work with children will need to understand about current legislations and familiarise themselves with them. Legislations are reviewed constantly so it is important to keep up to date with reading the relevant publications.
Underpinning the need for interagency work is Section 10 of the Children Act 2004, which is complemented by the Childcare Act 2006 and forms the basis for Every Child Matters. Working together to safeguard children (DfE 2015) further