Legislations For Safeguarding Children

There is a set of legislation, policies and procedures and guidelines all practitioners working with children under the age of 18 need to follow, some of these are laws and others are policies in a school which will vary from each school to the next.

The first piece of legislation is the United Nations of the rights of the child act 1989 this is the basis of UNICEFâ€TMs work, it ensures all children are entitled to cultural, political, economic, civil and social rights and governments must work together to make sure all children can enjoy their rights.

Working together to safeguard children 2010 ensures organisations and individuals should work together to ensure the welfare of the child is safe, in accordance with the children act 1989 and

Safeguarding children in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland all have separate acts and all are quite similar and comply with the children act bit from different years. The children act 1989 regulates for England and Wales and covers all child abuse and safeguarding concerns and the rights that child has got.

Each school will have a separate safeguarding policy and will usually be on their website that parents, carers, pupils and staff can all access. The policy must ensure that the school must follow local safeguarding children boards procedures, confidentiality must be aware of at all times, all staff are aware of what to do if they have any concerns and it's the senior members responsibility to make any referrals.

Ofsted also have their own set of policies and procedures that are available on their website about safeguarding children and young people. All staff need to be aware of the policies and procedures of their school and who they need to go to if they had any child protection or safeguarding concerns about a child or member of staff and where their next port of call is if the concern is about them or they are absent.

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All of our doors in the building automatically lock behind us and there are locks with badge only access on the doors so no children are able to get out of the building without an adult.

It is Important that all staff members have suitable up to date CRB disclosure checks done regularly and they are asked if there is anything to disclose on it monthly. All of our staff at my setting have their up to date safeguarding training for their role and their first aid training which is important when keeling the child safe in our care there is always a registered first aided on duty.

Data protection and confidentiality is extremely Important for safeguarding children, personal and private information should be kept in the children's files and locked away in a cabinet with a key or if it is stored electronically it needs to be password protected and image and unnecessary information needs to be deleted and wiped off any hard drive every month at the