Understand the main legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people
Read your setting's policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. Make a note of these for your reference.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools' by L Burnham and B Baker. Published by Heinemann.
- 'Keeping children safe' on the NSPCC website
- ‘Keeping children safe in education: Statutory guidance for schools and colleges’ produced by the Department for Education
- 'Ofsted requirements for safeguarding in schools in England' by the NSPCC
- Read your setting's policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. Make a note of these for your reference.
- 'Case review process in UK nations’ from the NSPCC
- ‘Child protection in the UK’ from the NSPCC
- 'Statutory framework for the Early Year Foundation Stage'
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- View the video to the right, which was produced by Teachers TV. In this 30-minute video a panel discuss how they would deal with a fictional scenario involving suspected abuse.Watch the video and make notes. Is there anything that you can relate to your setting? What can you learn from watching the video?
- View the video to the right, which was produced by Teachers TV. In this 30-minute video a panel discuss how they would deal with a fictional scenario involving suspected abuse.Watch the video and make notes. Is there anything that you can relate to your setting? What can you learn from watching the video?
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click this icon to read the full text document of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Look at the Children Acts 1989 and 2004. Make notes on the most important aspects of the Acts. You can access these online by using the links below:
- Children Act 1989
- Children Act 2004
- Click on the link to open ‘Child protection, social work reform and intervention: Research priorities and questions’, published by the Department of Education in 2014, and read ‘Research Summary and Gaps: Child Protection’. You may find it helpful to read some of the cited documents.
- Access the Practitioner’s Guide to CAF, which can be found by clicking the icon.
- Click here and read about the Assessment Framework for children in need and their families, from the Department of Health’.
- 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.
- 'A guide to safeguarding, managing risk and personal budgets: Supporting the work to implement personal budgets as part of the special educational needs and disability (SEND) reforms’ was produced in 2015 by the NSPCC. Read section 2 on ‘SEND, wider risks and safeguarding’
- Click here to visit the website of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).
- Look in particular at the NSPCC’s research findings pages and read one or two items of interest. Click the icon to go there.
- Visit North Yorkshire’s excellent website providing information on all aspects of safeguarding children by clicking the icon here.
- ‘Baby Peter Serious Case Review’. Available from the Department for Education by clicking on the icon.
- The Local Government Association has produced a list of information on ‘'safeguarding children'.
- 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.
- Click on the icon to read ‘Guidance for Working with Children and Young People who are Vulnerable to the messages of Terrorism and Extremism’ from North Lincolnshire’s Local Safeguarding Children Board.
- Think And Challenge
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