Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Children’s Care, Learning and Development

Unit 140 Develop and implement policies and

procedures to support the safeguarding of
children and young people.
Unit credit value –6

Learner name:.
Llewellyn.........................................................
Date:.........................................................................

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Unit 140 Develop and implement policies and procedures to support the safeguarding
of children and young people.

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Unit credit value –6

1.1 Outline the current legislation that underpins the safeguarding of children and young
people within own UK Home Nation:

1.2 Evaluate how national and local guidelines policies and procedures for safeguarding
affect day to day work with children and young people.

1.3 Explain how the processes used by own work setting comply with legislation that covers
data protection information handling and sharing.

2.1 Investigate why inquiries and serious case reviews are required and how sharing of
findings affects practice.

2.2 Identify the policies and procedures required in the work setting for safeguarding children
and young people.

2.4 Evaluate the impact of a child/young person centred approach to safeguarding on

policies and procedures.

4.1 Justify how promoting well-being and resilience supports the safeguarding of children
and young people.

4.2 Review how children or young people's resilience and well-being are supported in own
work setting.

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1.1 Outline the current legislation that underpins the safeguarding of children and

young people within own UK Home Nation:

1 Children Act

By 2003 it was clear that services for children were still not working together. This is when

Every Child Matters came into place which in turn led to the Children Act 2004. The main

futures of this Act included, the integration of children's services and the introduction of

children's directors with responsibility for local authority education and children's social

services. Lead councillors for children's services political responsibility for local child welfare.

The establishment of Local Safegaurding Children's Boards with statutory powers to ensure

that social services, the NHS, education services, the police and other services work together

to protect vulnerable children. A new Common Assessment Framework to assist agenises in

identifying welfare needs. Revised arrangements for sharing information.

2 Working Together to Safeguard Children

The 2006 revised version of this document provides an update on safeguarding and national

framework to help agencies work individually and together to safeguard children. It also

reflects changes to safeguarding practice in recent years.

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3 Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) was established in December 2012 under Part V

of the Protection of Freedoms Act (POFA)1 to undertake disclosure and barring functions.

There are specific legal requirements around these checks. Disclosure functions are set out

in Part V of the Police Act 1997 which requires Registered Bodies to adhere to this Code of

Practice.

4 UN Convention

The United Nations Convention on the rights of the child 1989 (UN 1989) was ratified by the

UK on the 16th December 1991. It includes children’s rights to protection from abuse, the

right to express their views and be listened to, and the right to care and services for disabled

children or children living away from home. Although different British governments have said

that it regards itself bound by the Convention and refers to it in child protection guidance, it

has not become part of the UK law. There is no single piece of legislation that covers

safeguarding children and young people in the UK; different laws and guidelines cover

different parts of the UK-England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

5 All Wales Child Protection Procedures

The All Wales Child Protection Procedures Review Group has revised the procedures on

behalf of Local Safeguarding Children Boards in Wales. The 2008 All Wales Child Protection

Procedures replace the previous procedures issued in 2002.They have been updated to

incorporate the important changes since they were first issued, in particular the

recommendations of the Victoria Climbie Inquiry Report; the Children Act 2004; and, the

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accompanying guidance, Safeguarding Children: Working Together under the Children Act

2004.

The All Wales Child Protection Procedures Review Group acknowledge that there will

continue to be a need to respond to changes in the future and intend to issue annual

updates. It is recognised that the Local Safeguarding Children Boards have a broad scope of

responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, however these

procedures are about their specific function to protect individual children from abuse and

neglect. The procedures provide common standards to guide child protection practice for

every Local Safeguarding Children Board in Wales. They provide a framework within which

individual child protection referrals, actions, decisions and plans are made and carried out.

They are an integral part of the agenda for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of

children.

6 Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015

An Act of the National Assembly for Wales to make provision requiring public bodies to do

things in pursuit of the economic, social, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales in a

way that accords with the sustainable development principle to require public bodies to report

on such action to establish a Commissioner for Future Generations to advise and assist

public bodies in doing things in accordance with this Act to establish public services boards in

local authority areas to make provision requiring those boards to plan and take action in

pursuit of economic, social, environmental and cultural well-being in their area and for

connected purposes.

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7The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act

The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 came into force in April 2016. The Act

provides the legal framework for social service provision in Wales. Child protection concerns

that end up in the courts continue to be treated in the same way as England.

At the local level regional safeguarding children boards co-ordinate, and ensure the

effectiveness of, work to protect and promote the welfare of children. Each board includes

any: local authority, chief officer of police, Local Health Board, NHS trust and provider of

probation services that falls within the safeguarding board area. The boards are responsible

for local child protection policy, procedure and guidance.

(NSPCC)

8 Protection of Freedoms Act

An Act to provide for the destruction, retention, use and other regulation of certain evidential

material to impose consent and other requirements in relation to certain processing of

biometric information relating to children to provide for a code of practice about surveillance

camera systems and for the appointment and role of the Surveillance Camera Commissioner,

to provide for judicial approval in relation to certain authorisations and notices under the

Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, to provide for the repeal or rewriting of powers

of entry and associated powers and for codes of practice and other safeguards in relation to

such powers, to make provision about vehicles left on land; to amend the maximum detention

period for terrorist suspects to replace certain stop and search powers and to provide for a

related code of practice, to make provision about the safeguarding of vulnerable groups and

about criminal records including provision for the establishment of the Disclosure and Barring

Service and the dissolution of the Independent Safeguarding Authority, to disregard

convictions and cautions for certain abolished offences; to make provision about the release

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and publication of datasets held by public authorities and to make other provision about

freedom of information and the Information Commissioner, to make provision about the

trafficking of people for exploitation and about stalking, to repeal certain enactments and for

connected purposes.

1.2 Evaluate how national and local guidelines policies and procedures for safeguarding

affect day to day work with children and young people.

National legislation and guidance influence the development of local policies and procedures

that affect every day work with children and young people. Policies must cover the protection

of all children and young people under the age of 18 and the content of the policy must be

reviewed annually and any amendments recorded. All settings must have a safeguarding

policy which should have main safeguarding officers named on it. All childcare practises

must ensure that all staff, students, outside agencies has a DBS (Disclosure and barring

service). All staff must be fully trained in safeguarding children and have the opportunity to

receive further training to develop their knowledge. Staff need to be aware of the procedure

for recording concerns and incidents if a child discloses information. We need to make a

record of exactly what the child said in their own words and pass all the information over to

the safeguarding officer, who will ensure the management is informed and all details

recorded are kept confidential and stored in secure place. We ensure confidentiality is of

paramount and that only information is disclosed about a child we are concerned about to

another member of staff is on a need to know basis. We will inform the appropriate outside

agencies of our concerns and what information we have recorded from the child. We all

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ensure that we handle the situation with the child as sensitively as possible but we never

promise them that we will not tell anyone else.

Daily risk assessments are essential for the safeguarding of children in my setting we ensure

risk assessments are carried out daily before any child enters the setting, risk assessments

will be carried out throughout the day to ensure safety at all times. The Every Child Matters

programme which states that each child has a right to;

Be healthy

Stay safe

Enjoy and achieve

Make a positive contribution

Achieve economic well being

Raise awareness of safeguarding issues in the community by conducting seminars with a

designated safeguarding officer for all School, child minders and nursery settings. Monitor

the success of the work that is done by the local agencies to guarantee that all practitioners

and managers have a clear understanding of safeguarding procedures, policies and

requirements. To identify multi agency success where there are concerns with regards to

safeguarding issues. To assist with the recognition of training needs.

1.3 Explain how the processes used by own work setting comply with legislation that covers

data protection information handling and sharing.

In my setting all information gathered about each individual child who attends the setting is

kept safe and secure in a locked filling cabinet. The information collected is documented on

a registration form which is filled in by the parent which will contain information about the

child’s name, date of birth, religion, parent’s details and contact numbers and emergency

contact details. Information update sheets are sent out yearly to ensure the nursery has the

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correct details and parents are reminded to update their child’s records if their circumstances

change e.g. change address, change of phone number. If a child is on the child protection

register all information and correspondence from any meetings are kept in the child’s

personal file and the information is only available to the manager, designated safeguarding

officer and other outside agencies that may be involved. No child’s personal file ever leaves

the premises unless the child requires hospital treatment which requires the manager and a

member of staff to take the child to hospital if they cannot contact their parents (section in

registration form which parent give permission for nursery to take child to hospital if they

cannot contact them). The nursery keeps all information on the child as long as they

attending the nursery when a child leaves the nursery all information is kept out the back in

locked secure room any other information will be shredded.

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2.1 Investigate why inquiries and serious case reviews are required and how sharing of

findings affects practice.

All settings have a duty to safeguard and support children, staff, Parents and carers during

their inspection process. This enables the recommendations within the SCR offer the

opportunity to examine current practices, what’s happening and how it happened within the

setting or externally. Practitioners are able to pass on all information in the meeting’s agenda

and if anything in the review reflects a settings practice that would help them improve their

safeguarding practice can be identified and ways that the improvements can be

implemented.

Serious case reviews (SCR) will be required in situations where a child has died (including

suicide) due to known or suspected abuse or neglect, was seriously harmed or suffered life

threatening injuries. SCR are not enquires into how the child died or was seriously harmed

as they state they are for the corners and criminal investigators to determine. The purpose of

the SCR is:-

• To establish what lessons are to be learned from the case about the way in which the local

professionals and organisations work individually and together to safeguard children and

promote the welfare of children.

• Identify clearly what those lessons are both within and between agencies, how and within

what timescales they will be acted on, and what is expected to change as a result.

• Improve intra and inter-agency working.

• Better safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

Over recent years there has been to major deaths of children which have been highlighted

by the media which prompted media frenzy and a major scrutiny of child protection

procedures. One was the death of Victoria Climbie in February 2000 who suffered more than

128 injuries when she died, although she had been in contact with health, police and social

services on several occasions and taken to hospital twice and yet the abuse had gone

undetected.

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Then 2008 Baby P (Peter Connelly) died after suffering extensive internal and external

injuries over a nine month period even though he had seen several times by professionals

and was subject to a child protection plan, although social services were not aware that

Baby P's mother had a new boyfriend and that him and his friend were largely responsible

for the injuries he sustained and his death.

A more recent case was Daniel Pelka in 2012 that was starved by his mother and her

boyfriend, they also locked him in a small box room with just a mattress on the floor for him

to sleep on. Daniel was subjected to being held under water till unconscious and regularly

beaten. Daniel’s mother told lies to his school about him being treated for a rare eating

disorder and that they are not to give him any food. When poor Daniel eventually passed

away he only weighed just over a stone and a half and had suffered many injuries including

the head injury which caused his death. Social service had become involved with the family

in 2010 after Daniel had broken his arm so how did the abuse go undetected for so long.

Daniel could of still been alive today if people had of done their jobs properly.

2.2 Identify the policies and procedures required in the work setting for safeguarding children

and young people.

The policies and procedures which are required in a setting are:-

Safeguarding and child protection should contain Name of organisation, designated officer,

current legislations, and obligation of staff responsibilities to safeguard children. That all

children should be treated with respect. How the company recruits and selects adults

whether paid or voluntary. How staff are to respond to any concerns and allegations

appropriately, how to record and monitor any concerns, which outside agencies are available

and a list of contact numbers. About staff training on safeguarding, review date of policy.

Employment and recruitment- helps a nursery in planning, monitoring and carefully

undertaking recruitment. It states the recruitment process for employing new employees,

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advertising, applications, short listing, interviewing, references, pre-employment checks

,DBS ,induction.

Whistle blowing- Allows adults to voice their concerns, made in good faith and without fear.

Should state staff responsibilities of bringing matters of concern to the attention of a senior

management member.

Camera and mobile phones- Should contain information about mobiles must be turned off

while inside the setting, they are not to be used on the premises, only the setting phone is to

be used, that anyone who is seen using a mobile phone should be reported to the manager,

nursery cameras are only to be used to take photographs of the children for the purpose of

recording a child’s learning, photographs must be deleted from the camera after printed,

cameras have be locked away at the end of the day.

Social networking- Informs staff that nothing is allowed to be posted on social networking

sites that could be construed to have impact on the nursery’s reputation, anything that may

offend any other member of staff or parent’s using the setting, if staff chose to let parents

view their page then the relationship must stay professional at all times. That if staff fail to

comply with this policy they may face disciplinary action.

2.4 Evaluate the impact of a child/young person centred approach to safeguarding on

policies and procedures.

A child centred approach is essential in safeguarding children as every child is different and

unique and it also gives you first-hand information and facts from the child about their

feelings in their current situation especially if they have formed a strong bond with the adult

they are opening up to and more importantly that the adult is aware of the child’s life. It is

important that the child is aware that there are people out there who are there to help and

support them through any decisions they make and what is going to happen next so they are

aware of what actions are being taken and that their wishes will be taken in to account

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during the process. As the Every child matters states that every child/ young person has five

outcomes for their well-being:-

Being healthy- enjoying good physical and mental health and living healthy lifestyle

Staying safe: - being protected from harm and neglect and growing able to look after look

after themselves

Enjoying and achieving: - getting the most out of life and developing broad skills for

adulthood

Making positive contributions: - to the community and to society and not engaging in anti-

social or offending behaviour (taken from the every child matters)

4.1 Justify how promoting well-being and resilience supports the safeguarding of children

and young people.

Promoting a child’s wellbeing and resilience we are building on their self-esteem and

confidence which gives them a sense of self-worth which enables them to learn what is right

and what is wrong and that people will listen to what they have to say. This will allow them to

let people know what they know is right and be able to say no if they feel in danger. When

children know that they are being safeguarded it allows them to be independent accepting

mistakes and able to disclose information and confidently share their feelings about what

makes them happy and what makes them feel uncomfortable. It enables looked after

children to be able to achieve and reach their full potential.

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4.2 Review how children or young people's resilience and well-being are supported in own

work setting.

In my setting we support a child’s resilience and wellbeing by understanding how young

children develop within their families and community and address their needs at the earliest

possible time. We ensure that children feel safe and secure at all times and give them the

emotional support they need to allow them to express their feelings openly. We ensure

children are listened to and their views are taken into consideration and involve them in any

decisions that are made which may affect them. We build on a child’s strengths and promote

resilience. We promote opportunities for a child to value their diversity and celebrate them.

We will provide any help needed as early as possible and consider what the short term and

long term needs may be, and what support can be offered to the children and families, any

information that we may need to share with other relevant professionals is kept confidential.

We ensure we have a competent workforce to promote children’s well-being.

Reflection:-

Now that you have completed this unit in childcare; and have attained knowledge and
understanding of its contents …

… Reflect upon the following areas and how these have been embedded into the training
during your learning experience.
ESDGC

I have learned identity and culture, natural environment and choices and decisions.

Literacy

I am taking more time with my punctuation and spelling and trying not to rely on spell
checker as much

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Numeracy

No numeracy needed in this unit

Welsh (Language and Culture)

Researched a lot of welsh policies and legislations

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