Youth Work Academic Certificate

Level 3 Certificate in Youth Work Practice
Unit 2
J/505/9226 : Credits 3
Safeguarding young people
in a youth work setting
Assessment Tasks
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THIS UNIT OUTLINES THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS RELATING TO THE
SAFEGUARDING OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN A YOUTH WORK SETTING.
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Learning Outcome 1 Know about the importance of safeguarding policies and procedures in
providing a safe environment for young people
1.1 Define the term “child protection” and “safeguarding”
According to the Lang & Hartill (2014), child protection and safeguarding is the act of
protecting children from abuse, identifying an already happening abuse, putting to end and
ensuring that it never happens in the future. Child protection and safeguarding are, therefore, the
act of identifying a deliberate ill action or ill-treatment which can harm a person under the age of
18 years and putting it to a stop. Child protection and safeguarding, therefore, encompass three
key actions, identifying an abuse, protecting a child from abuse and stop the chance from
happening again.
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1.2 Outline safeguarding legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures relevant to your
own organization
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1.3 Outline own organization's child protection policies and procedures that
create a safe, but challenging environment that benefits young people
Child protection policies at SWAN are well established to provide effective protection.
In much as they benefit children in school, some of these policies create a challenging
environment that benefits the young ones. These policies include:
The age of activity involvement: Swan has age policy which provide for the ages that
learners are allowed to engage in different activities. This policies there ensures that only
learners with the right age are involved in risky activities.
Health qualification policy: safeguarding team at Swan have set regulations which
ensures that only learners who are healthy are involved in risky activities such as swimming.
This policy also provides for a nurse to be involved when learners are engaged in such activities.
Also, the responsible team must ensure that all learners involved in risky activities such
as climbing and swimming have suitable gears and those without are barred from participation
for their own safety.
Gift and Hospitality policy: this policy bars children and other individuals form
receiving and giving out gifts respectively. In as much as this policy is challenging since gifts
are necessary motivation instruments, the policy bars children within the school from
enticement and involvement in illegal activities like sexual abuses (Brennan and Phippen 2019).
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1.4 Describe how your own organization's child protection policies and
procedures influence your practice
The set organization policies and procedures regarding the protection of children
within the school and residence influence my practice in a positive manner. Through the
policies, I have learned a lot in my practice relating to children's protection and safeguarding.
As a social worker, have learnt about policy formulation and implementation. I have also learnt
to be aware of what is right for children and how their interests can be safeguarded. Moreover,
I have gained knowledge on the process of reporting and handling cases related to children
welfare. Nonetheless, The set policies and procedure has also enabled me to handle children and
can be able to fight for children rights as a social worker. I have also become aware of every
detail regarding child abuse and as a social worker and For this reason, working at the
organization and having vivid knowledge of rules which are necessary for children protection
provides me the necessary skills in building my career.
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1.5 Describe the boundaries of confidentiality when working with young people
and how this could affect your own rights
There are specific boundaries that cannot be breached when working with children.
These boundaries when not observed can lead to termination of a social worker (England, and
Wales 2015). These boundaries include:
In a situation where a child confides into you a social worker, it is important to ask the
child the appropriate person you can share with the information given. The information should
therefore not shared with the third party unless it is justified and compelling to do so in the
child's interest and that the disclosure is justified (Garratt, Piper and Taylor 2013).
In the case where the child is too young or lacks the capacity to give the consent, it is,
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