Award in Caring for Children in a Home Environment

Award in caring for children in
a home environment

TABLE OF CONTENT
1.1 Sterilization of feeding apparatus.......................................................................................5
1.2 Summarization of preparation and storage of food for children safety ........................5
1.3 Summarising of how to dispose waste materials safely ...................................................6
1.4 Outlining care for domestic animals safely in home environment which includes
children ......................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Current health and safety legislation and guidance relevant to caregiver looking after
children in home environment..................................................................................................7
2.2 Safe supervision inside and outside home..........................................................................7
2.3 Steps to be followed in the event of accident, incident and emergency .........................8
2.4 Outlining safely store and administration of medication to child in care......................9
3.1 Role of child care taker and others when planning next steps for child preferences
and requirements.....................................................................................................................10

3.2 Working partnerships for caring a child in home environment ...................................10
3.3 Benefits of working in partnership with other professionals and important people...11
Q. 3.4 Developing working relationship with parents and other family members of child
....................................................................................................................................................12
Q.3.5 Maintaining working relationship with child's parents and other members...........12
Q.3.6 Impact of confidentiality issue in care giver's job......................................................13
Q.4.1 Terms related to child care takers................................................................................13
4.2 Current legislation and guidelines relevant to safeguarding and protection among
students ...................................................................................................................................15
4.3, 4.4 & 4.5 ............................................................................................................................15
4.6 Examples of sign that child is experiencing abuse or neglect.......................................17
REFRENCES ................................................................................................................................18
1.1 Sterilization of feeding apparatus
As babies have weak less immune system, it is essential to take specific care of the
feeding apparatus properly while feeding them, as child care taker and nurse need to sterilize
instruments properly before giving them to child. Sterilization of feeding apparatus is important
procedure, for maintaining proper safety practices and also include bottles and teats until they are
at least 10 months old. Clean bottles and other feeding equipment should be washed with hot,
soapy water as soon as possible (Li and et.al., 2020). The child care taker need to take significant

focus on maintaining proper sterilization done for feeding apparatus, by heading on towards
proper efficiency as per specific health parameters. Sterilization of feeding apparatus enables to
disinfect germs if any on bottles, and also makes equipment safe to be further used based upon
structural efficacy for larger proper maintenance. First, cleaning of equipment by washing with
hot soapy water needs to be done by boiling properly, as it will further disinfect bottle to be used
for child properly. Store cleaned and sterilized equipment should be done in sealer container in
fridge, by keeping equipment in sterilization solution. Boiling is the simplest way and most
effective sterilizing way, for bottle feeding equipment where containers can be rinsed with hot
water for keeping sterilization procedure done with focus on cleanliness.
1.2 Summarization of preparation and storage of food for children safety
Ensuring best preparation and storage of food for children safety holds high importance,
for ensuring children safety measures which further enables supervision to be done perfectly on
wider levels. Supervision should be proper monitored, also child food preparation plays strong
role to bring best specific prerequisites be developed for attending towards their care
determinants variedly. Taking proper sterilization of all equipment avoids chances of any injuries
from sharp knives and hot surfaces, where children food safety needs to be done with high care
and precaution parameters. Preparation and storage of food for children safety, enhances abilities
to further enable best safety measures to be taken and also make sure child doctor prescribed
medicines, food materials are taken proper care (Wu and et.al., 2017). There is also high scope to
further take proper care of children food nutrition requirements, while preparing and storage of
food has to be done to further abide to healthy food habits within longer run. Children food
safety holds high essential role, and for children safety measures as the immune system of child
is low cereals, milk and fruit items should be given. Children should be given nutritious food and
properly discussed with doctor prescriptions, to maintain proper nutrition level variedly for
strength in immune system. Grating fruits and veggies, will enable child to have fruit box while
they go for lunch. Different types of food that can be given to children, are multigrain biscuits
and they should be kept within air tight containers.

1.3 Summarising of how to dispose waste materials safely
Disposing waste materials with safety enables to maintain proper hygiene in proper
format, where the child care taker should keep proper measures to dispose materials properly. All
waste should be double bagged properly and make sure that proper sanitation facilities are done,
which further enables to dispose waste materials in proper format. Child waste materials should
be disposed off, where child care taker need to make precise measures secure, and also maintain
proper recycle materials are there within house. Disposing waste materials, further enables
proper safety measures to be done in proper format which scales up child safety to be done in
proper format as instructed by parents. The child care taker need to also adhere towards precise
hygiene facilities among children, which further enables disposing of materials to be separated
which further maintains proper format hygiene levels (World Health Organization, 2017). Child
care taker need to also make specific arrangements, related to safe dispose of waste materials
which further synchronizes specific efficacy variedly for improved safety standards. The
sanitized gloves should be also used by child care taker, which further improvises working
conditions in child care scenarios effectively for wider diverse improvised safety measures
(Cabrera and et.al, 2020). Different types of wastes such as biodegradable wastes and plastic
boxes, need to be recycled and kept separately, for further creating significant changes in
working efficacy.
1.4 Outlining care for domestic animals safely in home environment which includes children
Domestic animal’s safety in home environment includes children care to be done specifically
where small kids should not be left alone at home with pets, and within home. When feeding
domestic animals, there should be significant focus pertained towards addressing safety measures
and keep children safely. The feeding places for animals, pets should be separate and small
children should not be taken there, as it further enhances working productivity targets to be done
properly in structured format (Briggs, and Hawkins, 2020). The cringe of child or infant should
be in separate room and home environment should be kept at check, which will further check
domestic animal’s safety measures to be properly maintained in proper format. Also while
feeding children, the pets in home should be separated and care regarding child should be
overlooked properly in correlation with child care taker and parents to be precisely accurate.

Child caregivers look after basic needs for children, based on dressing, feeding and supervising
playtime activities among child care facilities which further provides them high comfort.
Outlining care structure activities properly, strengthens proper care for child as per specific
preferences and also further adds to enhanced confident development.
2.1 Current health and safety legislation and guidance relevant to caregiver looking after
children in home environment
Example
Legislation The children and social work act 2017- Legislation measures focus on
checking social welfare practices for children, to further enhance
productive engagement scenarios rapidly for harnessing larger scale
scenarios. It is one of the most specific children and social work act
heading focus on children, which further enhances scope to specifically
bring on productive efficacy within longer run.
Legislation The Children Act 1989, also specifically evolves high specific focus for
strengthening best legal standards to protect child care and to yearn larger
attainment perspectives. Example: the child care taker need to also take up
specific aspects, which further heads on larger strengthened rise for higher
operatives dynamically (Ferreira, Quintão and Quaresma, 2021).
Guidance
 The children care giver need to properly take specific on food
safety measures related to child safety and development, which will
further enable proper aspects to be evolved innovatively Also child
care taker need to hand wash properly and uses sterilized
instruments before child care, which will further significantly bring
on proper advancement.
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Guidance Sanitizing and disinfecting in child care holds high importance, where
child care taker need to significantly head on accurate focus on further
taking specific care for managing child safety concerns.