Understand how home-based childcarers can support the safeguarding of children in their care.
Contact your Local Authority, Childminder Agency or National Childminder Association and find out what additional resources and support are available for you in relation to safeguarding, health and safety, and food safety.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Child Protection or Safeguarding'
- ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ published by the Department for Education
- What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused: Advice for practitioners
- Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage: Setting the standards for learning, development and care for children from birth to five
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click on the icon to the left to explore the NSPCC website for further information and resources relating to safeguarding.
- Click on the icons below to read the following NSPCC leaflets which provide further information about the signs and symptoms of abuse:
- Bruises on children:
- Emotional neglect and emotional abuse in pre-school children:
- Head and spinal injuries in children:
- Fractures in children:
- Oral injuries and bites on children:
- Thermal injuries on children:
- Click to read this section of the Victim Support website about Domestic Abuse
- Contact your Local Authority, Childminder Agency or National Childminder Association and find out what additional resources and support are available for you in relation to safeguarding, health and safety, and food safety.
- This article on ‘Mobile phone and camera policy – childminders’ is an article written by a registered childminder. It offers suggestions for creating your own policy. It refers to the EYFS 2012, but the same paragraph exists in the EYFS 2017 revision.
- Click on the link to the Department of Education advice for schools and childcare providers on preventing children and young people from being drawn into terrorism.
- 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.
- Click to view this wheel, produced by Pacey, which shows the 'EYFS and British values'.
- The Department for Education have produced a document ‘Child sexual exploitation: Definition and a guide for practitioners, local leaders and decision makers working to protect children from child sexual exploitation’. This is intended to help all those working with children, and their parents and carers, to understand child sexual exploitation and what action should be taken to identify and support victims.
- Breast ironing or flattening is another form of abuse on young girls to be aware of. Click on the link to find out more about this practice.
- Think And Challenge
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