Understand legislation and guidelines for the safeguarding, protection and welfare of babies and young children
Find and read your setting’s policies and procedures for:
- Reporting/dealing with disclosure
- Child protection and promoting the welfare of babies and young children
- Safeguarding and security
- Child protection
- Online safety
- Confidentiality
- Information sharing
- Use of technology
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Working Together to Safeguard Children’ from HM Government
- 'Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage’ by the Department for Education,
- Find and read your setting’s policies and procedures for:
- 'The Prevent duty: Departmental advice for schools and childcare providers’ from the Department for Education
- 'Safeguarding: Record Keeping & Confidentiality’ from Teach Early Years
- Laser Reading Text: Legislation to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
- 'Safeguarding children and protecting professionals in early years settings: online safety guidance for practitioners’ from the UK Council for Internet Safety
- 'Why are LSCBs changing, and what to?' from the Child Protection Company
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on 'Online safety in the early years'.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on 'Safeguarding and the EYFS'.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Playing it safe’ from Teach Early Years.
- These videos from Think U Know are called ‘Jessie and Friends’ and are designed to give 4-7-year olds knowledge, skills and confidence to help them respond safely to risks they may encounter online. Click to read more about the group of friends and what can be done to keep children safe online.
- This article from Croner-I covers ‘E-safety in the early years’.
- ‘What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused: Advice for practitioners’ is produced by HM Government and explains appropriate actions to take.
- Since government devolution the individual countries of the UK have taken responsibility for their own safeguarding legislation. The NSPCC has produced a series of factsheets that summarise safeguarding legislation by country. This information can be downloaded from this website.
- ‘Safeguarding children and protecting professionals in early years settings: online safety considerations for managers’ from the UK Council for Internet Safety.
- Read ‘Keeping children safe in education: Information for all school and college staff'.
- Read this article from the Professional Association for childcare and early years (PACEY) on ‘British values and the Prevent duty’. It explains the British values and what they mean.
- 'Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills settings’ sets out the key points Ofsted inspectors need to consider when inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills settings.
- Think And Challenge
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