Child Minding: Safeguarding and Duty of Care

This document provides an explanation of the terms safeguarding and duty of care in child minding. It also summarizes the regulatory requirements for safeguarding children within a home-based setting. Additionally, it explains the roles and responsibilities of lone workers in relation to safeguarding, protection, and welfare of children. Furthermore, it describes the signs, symptoms, indicators, and behaviors that may cause concern relating to domestic abuse, neglect, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and sexual abuse. Lastly, it outlines the actions to take if harm or abuse is suspected or disclosed, including recording concerns, referring concerns to the appropriate authorities, and dealing with disclosures.

Child minding

Assessment Criteria: 3.1 - Explain the terms:
 Safeguarding and Duty of care
 Child protection
You must show you understand the different terms. Safeguarding, referring to other aspects
of keeping children safe including child protection. Duty of care, show your responsibility
as a member of society as well as your legal responsibility as a home based childcarer.
Safeguarding is considered as protecting a person right of living in safe as well as free
environment where they not get abuse or neglected from anyone. In respect of child
protection which is considered as a part of safeguarding procedure. This generally focuses
on protecting children who is identified as suffering or likely to suffer from specific harm.
It also include child protection process that provide detail about how to respond in order to
concern about child. Moreover, this is a duty of care which mainly reflect a person
responsibility as a member of society and legal responsibility as home based child carer. In
respect of this it is essential for a members to report risk whenever they feel it as well as it
also include ensure that no child is getting abuse or neglected by others on any reason.
Assessment Criteria: 3.2 - Summarise regulatory requirements for safeguarding
children within a home- based setting.
In England you must meet the requirements of the EYFS. You need to read section 3 of the
requirements and summarise this. Include in your summary the most relevant parts of section
3 of the EYFS, e.g. -
• meeting appropriate ratios (see specifically sections 3.28, 3.41, 3.42, 3.43)
• requirements for registration (see specifically section 3.10)
• factors to consider when recruiting staff (see specifically section 3.9, 3.11, 3.13)
https://www.foundationyears.org.uk/files/2017/03/
EYFS_STATUTORY_FRAMEWORK_2017.pdf
There are several factors which are considered in order to meet the appropriate ratio such
as arrangements conducted by staffs need to meet the requirement of all children and also
ensure their safety properly. It also include providers should inform patents or carer about
staff positioning. In this it is also need to consider that carer can take care of maximum six
children at a time. In addition to this, there is also requirements of the registration for child
minder as that help in checking the suitability and authenticity of child minders as they
have to look after children. Moreover there are several factors need to consider when
recruiting staffs such as ensure that person is suitable for fulfilling the all requirements of
roles. Furthermore providers tell staffs that they need to disclose any cautions, convictions,
court order, warnings and reprimands as well as they also responsible to meet all the
standards of Safeguarding vulnerable group Act 2006. DBS checks is defined as the to
making of records in which employer can checks the criminal records of someone who is
applying for job or specific job role. Thus, this DBS is demonstrably state Disclosure and
barring service. This help to know about the details of any individual for example in health
and child care.
Assessment Criteria: 3.3 - Explain the roles and responsibilities of the lone worker in a
home-based setting in relation to the safeguarding, protection and welfare of children.

This task is asking you to look at safeguarding from the point of view of a lone worker. It is
your role and responsibility to keep children in your care safe, this puts you as a lone worker
in a vulnerable position. In your explanation include ALL points:
 Safety of the child being paramount.
 Working in an open way and maintaining professional boundaries.
 Having regard for current statutory requirements and guidance (EYFS, Working
Together to Safeguard Children 2018)
 Ensuring that policies and procedures reflect statutory requirements, are clear and
understood by all those involved in the care of the child.
 Recording any pre-existing injuries (injuries that children arrive at your setting
with/or have sustained before you started work-if you are a nanny) - how and why
you do this?
 Monitoring and ensuring that visitors to the setting are suitable to be around children
and ensuring children are not left unattended with them.
 Prevent Duty and being alert and report signs that a child may be being radicalised.
 E-safety (how you are going to keep children safe online)
There are several roles and responsibilities of lone workers in home based setting in respect
of safeguarding, welfare and protecting children. This will include keeping safety of child
as a priority, work must be conducted in open manner as well as it is essential to maintain
professional boundaries. In this it is also essential to ensure that all the current statutory
requirement and guidelines of EYFS and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018
are follow properly. It is also role and responsibility that every person involve in child
caring must understand the statutory requirements properly. It also include recording or
any pre-existing injuries and try to find out why it is happen. Moreover it is also role of
lone worker to provide e safety lessons to children by social media so that they know their
rights properly. As per this, as nanny if any child is taking admission in child care setting
their the physical evaluation is necessary to create a safeguard from the future allegation.
In addition to this, the complication may arise in respect to treatment of child and the
physical injuries work as evidence in that case. So, it is important to analyse the physical
injuries in front of camera and report about this to senior and then collect data for future
aspect. In this, always create focus on child in respect to visitor, the individual who came
to visit in child care must be analyse and check their data through DBS and make an
register for their in and out time. As per this, the approach is useful for create safeguard in
respect to children. In respect to E-safety, the data and access must be track in aspect to
their behaviours like if children is getting violent then must take action on it and find the
way by which they analyse total approach.
Assessment Criteria: 3.4 - Describe signs, symptoms, indicators and behaviours that
may cause concern relating to:
• domestic abuse
• neglect
• physical abuse
• emotional abuse
• sexual abuse

Definition of abuse Signs, Symptoms, Indicators and Behaviours that will alert
you to any form of abuse
Domestic Sign – become aggressive, suffer from depression or anxiety,
display anti-social behaviour, not so well in school.
Symptom – Isolate, threaten to hurt, make feel worthless,
hitting, choking and so on.
Indictor – suicidal tendencies, self-harming, and alcohol misuse,
depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and so on.
Behaviour – nervous, hyperactive, fear, crying while talking,
avoid social gathering.
Neglect Sign – bulling, avoiding by others, controlled by others.
Symptom – avoiding crowd, fear of others, aggressiveness.
Indictor – fear of other, anxiety, depression.
Behaviour – nervous, hyperactive, fear of others, under
confidence.
If they are neglected then they try to keep distance from
everyone and isolate themselves from other, less talk, and many
more.
Physical Sign – Bruises, broken bones, burns, cuts
Symptom – Unexplained bruises, nervous, hyperactive, and
aggressive, under fear and so on.
Indictor – Injuries to eyes, both side head and body, frequently
getting injured.
Behaviour – nervous, hyperactive, fear, crying while talking.
Emotional Sign – humiliating, putting down, shouting or threatening,
pushing, manipulating, try to control.
Symptom – lack of confidence, unable to play, be aggressive or
nasty, and not appear to have close friends.
Indictor – bed wetting, headaches, abdominal pain, and low
confidence, avoid getting out.
Behaviour – nervous, lack of confidence, fear of others.

Definition of abuse Signs, Symptoms, Indicators and Behaviours that will alert
you to any form of abuse
Sexual Sign – Forcing child to watch or hear sexual acts, Making child
masturbate while other will watch, showing pornography
Symptom – an unusual discharge, pregnancy, sexually
transmitted infections, bruising or bleeding, discomfort in
walking.
Indictor – trouble in sleeping, stomach aches, underwear
stained, rectal bleeding.
Behaviour – nervous, discomfort in walking, fear, crying while
talking.
Stretch and Challenge – research the
following and summarise the type of signs,
symptoms you might be looking for
Type of Abuse Signs, Symptoms, indicators and behaviours.
Cyber bullying / trolling/
online abuse
Hacking online account and sending inappropriate messages to
others.
County Lines Taking drugs on the regular basis which decrease the
confidence and leads to depression.
FGM Ritual of cutting or removal of some or all of the external
female genitalia which decrease the confidence of female.
Forced marriages A person is force to get married without their concern which
impact on their behaviour which leads to depression.
Bullying Decrease the person confidence and increase fear of others.
Child Sexual
Exploitation
Showing child adult movie or pornography and exploit them.
Child trafficking Exporting or selling of children for the illegal activities.
Breast Flattening Considered as the process in which pounding and massaging of
a pubescent girl's breasts is done by using hard or heated
objects, to try to make them stop developing or disappear for
saving female from exploiting.
Upskirting In this a person take a sexually intrusive photograph up

someone's skirt without their concern.
https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/media/1188/definitions-signs-child-abuse.pdf
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/signs-symptoms-effects/
Assessment Criteria: 3.5 - Describe actions to take if harm or abuse is suspected and/or
disclosed.
You need to say what you would do in the event that:
 You have concerns for a child’s safety and well-being.
 A child makes disclosure.
This must include:
 Recording your concerns.
 When and to whom you would refer your concerns (who in your local area do you
need to contact, provide contact details, what procedure do you need to follow?)
 In what circumstances you would refer a concern without first speaking to the child’s
parent/carer
 How you would deal with the disclosure
There are several actions taken in order to determine is harm or abuse is conducted or
disclosed such as in this first need to conduct recording of concerns. After that contact to
local area police commissioner and provide them all details so they work in legal manner.
If the condition of child is very bad or serious then it is not essential to speak first to child’s
carer or parent. In order or deal with disclosure there must be proper evaluation that the
outcome is satisfactory or not. The safeguarding policies are like responding to concern
about the child well being, responding to allegation when it it be abuse then take action
against it, selecting right person to work and they easily communicate to children, create
barrier and respond against bullying, raise concern about online abuse. As per this, some of
policies are must follow by pacey in order to development of child.
Congratulations, you have completed this plan, it is ready to be submitted for
assessment and for you to receive feedback on your program