In my setting, one of the main policies is the Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy. This policy ensures every child can enjoy the right to live their life free from harm or abuse or potential harm or abuse. The nursery ensures that the children are in a caring, supportive and safe environment, In the nursery, they also ensure children have unique talents and abilities, in which all children can learn and develop to their full potential. This allows the children to feel comfortable around others to share different beliefs without it being an issue. This sets clear guidelines for teachers to follow should an incident occur. This allows them to feel safe and protected and equips them with the knowledge of how to deal with the situations. …show more content…
This then becomes an incident of poor practise. Having this policy ensures that all children are safe and if the policy is not followed that there will be consequences. Teachers may be aware of the policy but may not have been brought through it and therefore are unclear of how the policy works. This means that they will be unaware of how to deal with a situation or who to report to if they feel that there may be a problem with a child. Teachers and parents may be unaware or the signs and symptoms of different types of abuse and may over look it. A way in which this could change is for the teachers to have a staff day in which they are brought through the policy step by step to understand it entirely. The policy could also be shortened down to step by step procedures of who to contact or different types of abuse and the signs that you should look out for as a way for parents to be able to read it and become more aware. this also allows parents to feel secure about their children attending the nursery as they understand that there is a policy in place that teachers must follow or there will be …show more content…
All staff should ensure personal mobile phones are stored in their lockers during school hours. Staff may issue family with the school land line number and this number should be used to contact members of staff should an emergency arise. Parents or Guardians must never take images of children within the grounds of the nursery or on school trips. All parents will have to give consent to allow their child to get photographed and this will then be done on a professional camera only by the teacher. Parents must also never answer a phone call around another child within the nursery. This ensures that all children’s identity is kept safe. This allows children to stay safe and protected as the images taken by the nursery will remain confidential. This allows parents to access images though the nursery and never through social media. Parents will be more confident in allowing their children to have their child’s photograph taken through the duration of the years in the nursery. Consent from parents will also be updated every six months but the parents will also be reminded before events within the nursery or school outings to ensure that they are still comfortable. They are also reminded that mobile phones are prohibited on trips in which the parents attend. Although this policy is in place and reminded, parents may ignore this policy. During school trips they may take images of their child. This could lead to other children
Explain the legal status and principles of the relevant early years frameworks and how national and local guidance materials are used in settings
There are many times when a care order has to be put in place and it happens because the authorities believe that it is the best thing to do for the child’s overall wellbeing. When the care order is put in place it will mean that the
All children and young people should have support regardless of who they are and the environments they come from. Children and young people should be supported to be healthy, enjoy life, have a good standard of living and be successful in everything they do. These are the five key principles to help get children and young people the best start in life. Children and young people have the right to voice their opinions and share any issues that are of importance to them. In the past this was often disregarded. Protection of the children’s act 1999 is so that any people who are considered unsuitable to work with children and young people are put on a list also known as (POCA). This list is to prevent the unsuitable people from gaining access to children. Unsuitable persons will not be allowed to work with any children weather its paid work or voluntary work. All childcare organisations must refer to this list through the criminal records bureau to check off names against the list and any persons found to be on it must not under any circumstances be employed. The UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the rights of a child) The UNCRC is an international agreement that
Young children always see their parents and teachers as role models. The way the parents and childcare workers act and react is how children will learn to do. Hence, whatever their role models say and do is reflected in how they will think about the world in future. As the greatest imitators are children, being a good role model is important in proper child development. Secondly, a childcare worker should always be a good listener to help in proper development of the children. Children should be always encouraged to talk whenever they come with some questions. However, what might sound silly to an adult, to a child is actually a very sincere question which needs to be correctly answered. If you develop open lines of communication with a child at an early age, then as they grow older, chances are these good habit will continue to grow. Giving the child the importance they deserve is another element of child development. Further, a childcare worker should enjoying nature together with children. Hence, teaching children to respect others as well as nature will make them treat the world as their own. This starts with teaching them something as simple as the proper place to throw away their trash instead of on the ground. Never the less, children need discipline in their lives. Hence, rules which need to be strict are sometimes needed to be enforced if we expect
The environment has to be safe and secure and equal attention according to the needs of the child is necessary. The Act puts emphasis on the welfare and rights of the child, teachers and support staff must effectively communicate with children and young people respecting their views, wishes and feelings. Again, procedures for reporting concerns and information sharing have to be followed. Professionals such as social workers under the Act are permitted to make investigations and where significant harm is apparent; the police are permitted to take the child.
When working practitioners must not only protect the children they work with when in the school setting and off site, but also themselves. Whether in school or off-site the school safeguarding policy should be referred to, to give guidance and adhered to at all times.
An analysis of how national and local guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding affect day to day work with children and young people including, but not limited to:
An outline of current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation (England), affecting the safeguarding of children and young people.
ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care and
When children or young people are cared for by others, certain guidelines must be followed. Individuals who have contact with the child will be separated by the criminal records Bureau (CRB) and the locations or setting will be inspected by the local authority and/or by the office for standards in education (OFSTED).
The first requirement for a good program for young children and any other children are the safety provided for them. Children should feel safe in their surroundings in the program that they will enter. Parents should always ask and know the safety precautions each program serves. Knowing the precaution the program does to visitors, drop off and pick ups, and around the whole facility is important. A good program should have a policy for visitors. It is also important to know that the program has a good policy for children’s drop off and pick up. To assure a secure facility to the safety of the children a program should not only be safe for them but for the whole environment.
Although the rights of the child is evident in many procedures, after reading in extensive detail about the UNCRC and reflecting on our centres policies and procedures I have come to the conclusion that we need to add Article 31 of the UNCRC. (UNCRC, 1989, Article 31). In doing so it will ensure all educators are fully aware of the rights of the child, the right of play and the importance of it. It also ensure that at all times children’s rights are being understood, respected and adhered to by all educators that enter our service. Families can also be reassured that all educators are fully aware of the UNCRC rights of the child as well as that their child’s rights are at the forefront of all educators practices consistently as it is a policy that all educators are familiar with and have to follow. Having it as a policy ensure all children have a voice and it is being listened to and responded on appropriately allowing their choices to be respected by all educators. Not only adding a policy that is formed from the children’s right to play will benefit the children but also reviewing the wording of our current policies to ensure that the children right to play is at the forefront of our early childhood education and care program. Reflecting on our policies and procedures I strongly believe we have the foundations to ensure best practice of the children’s rights is being adhered too but we need to review and reflect on these practices to ensure that the language being used in the policy and procedure manual is clearly evident to support the children’s right of
Working in the field of early childhood can be both complex and challenging. Today, early childhood educators must take on a good number of roles including manager, advocate, policy maker, and classroom practitioner (Allvin, 2016). It is vital that early childhood educators understand that children’s early learning and development are multidimensional, complex, and influenced by many factors and so are able to implement developmentally appropriate practices in their childcare settings (“School Readiness,” 1995). Part of developing proficiency in working with young children is learning about and following accepted professional standards of conduct. As an early childhood educator and administrator, many daily decisions will have moral and ethical
In 2003 the government reviewed a new policy on inspection services. Its aim was to ensure that inspection keeps making useful contribution to local services (Mathews, 2004, p. 6). The value of inspection is to ensure that all childcare provisions meet every child’s needs in the setting where they are looked after. Morton (2014, Aug 08) suggests that, Ofsted inspection must assess how childcare settings deliver the EYFS. In addition to this, Ofsted assess childcare providers to make sure that they follow EYFS framework.
Top among these reasons is that they want to ensure the safety of their children. Reports of child abuse have caused parents to worry and fear that the same might be happening in their houses, therefore the need to take precautionary measures. Good intentions aside, the use of maid surveillance equipment has brought about many legal and ethical issues concerning the use of these devices. Despite the suggestion that surveillance helps in safety and supervision, the use of nanny camers is unethical. Critics of this surveillance system claim that ‘nanny cameras provide parents with a peace of mind’ is biased.