Legislation Related to Home-Based Child Carer

C3AHBC1 -
Preparing to work as
a home-based child
carer

INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................2
TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................2
Legislation related to the work of home-based child carer................................................................2
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................6
Complete a spider diagram or mind map to summarise current legislation and guidelines................6
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Home based child carer is important for children because it will help in their better
growth in effective manner. Along with this, in entire procedure of home-based child carer is
parents as well as other family members (Bromer and Korfmacher, 2017). This report will be
going to discuss several legislations related to home-based child carer which provide
assistance in better care of children. In addition to this, there are several other legislations and
guidelines related to children care such as the health and safety of children, Safeguarding as
well as equality, diversity and inclusion.
TASK 1
Legislation related to the work of home-based child carer
Legislation Summary
Children Act 1989 This act is United Kingdom Act of Parliament that allocates
responsibilities or duties to courts, parents, local authority as well
as other agencies in UK for making sure that children are safeguard
as well as their welfare is promoted. Main motive of this act is that
children cared best within their own families as well as it also
makes provision related to that when family members and parents
not cooperate with statutory bodies. In addition to this, as per
respective act welfare of children is first concern of courts as well
as it also specifies that any delay within system procedure will
detrimentally impact on welfare of child (Stone and Bryant, 2019).
For welfare of child several things will consider such as likely
impact of change on child, ability of parents to need child needs,
background circumstances, age, sex, child wishes, physical need,
emotional as well as educational requirements.
United Nations
Convention on the
Rights of the Child
United nation conventions are decided for the rights of child which
means that human rights treaty that sets out civil, economic, social,
political, health as well as cultural rights of children. in addition to
this, by these conventions it has been defined that child as human
being under eighteen age unless age of majority is attained earlier
within national legislation. In simple term it can be said that,
conventions simply deal with specific needs as well as rights as