Safeguarding the Welfare of Children and Young People

This report discusses the importance of safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. It explores the current legislation and policies related to their safety and protection. It also discusses the roles of various agencies involved in safeguarding. Additionally, it identifies different signs of illnesses in children and explains the actions to take in emergency situations.

safe guarding the
welfare of children
and young people

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Explain the various current legislation and polices related to welfare and safety of
children and young people..........................................................................................................4
1.2 Discuss the roles of various agencies which are included in safeguard of welfare of
children's and young people........................................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Identify different sign and symptoms of illnesses at the time of childhood.........................6
2.2 Explain those actions when young people and children are injured.....................................7
2.3 Identify different situations when children's and young people are require to provide
urgent medical attention. ............................................................................................................7
2.4 What actions are take into consideration for emergency......................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Safeguard refers to a term which means to protect the health of human beings from any
abuse and neglect situation (Allardyce and Yates, 2018). It also includes various human rights
for adults and children's which make them to live their life with safety. Safeguards is not only the
responsibility of an organisation but everyone is responsible for it. Safeguards require that people
and organisation both are working together for reducing negative experience of abuse and
neglect. Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people is related to the health and
development of children's and adults. It ensure that children's are growing in a safe and effective
care and takes effective action so that they can achieve a best outcome. There are various laws &
polices related to protecting children's & adults from maltreatment, exploitation, abuse and other
unfair practices. This report includes various guidelines, policies and legislation for safeguarding
welfare and safety of children and young peoples. It includes different agencies for safeguarding
their growth and development. Other than this it identify symptoms of illness in children's.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
1.1 Explain the various current legislation and polices related to welfare and safety of children
and young people.
Safeguarding is a term which is derived from child protection (Boggis, 2018). It includes
various laws related to welfare of children and protecting them from any unfair activity. Their
are various legislation and policies which helps in providing safety and protections to children's
and young people. These legislation are mention below:
Legislation related to children's and young people safeguarding
United nations convention on right of the child (1989) sets different laws related to rights
and freedom of children's in a set of 54 articles. It includes various articles which ensure safety
and development of children's. It's article 19 provide safety to children's from any mental
violence, injury, abuse, exploitation and any physical violence. All those countries which are
singed up with Treaty are legally bound to follow all these legislation and polices related to
safeguarding. Various legislation related to children and young people are mention below:
 Children Act 1989- It refers to a act related to safeguarding children's and young people
which states that all parents and professionals are responsible for ensuring safety of their

child (Hadwin and et. al. 2020). This law is divided into two important laws which are
section 47 and section 17. Section 47 states that its duty of local authority to investigate
when a child is suffering most and find suspects which harm child. While section 17
states that provide fast and effective safeguarding service for promoting children's
welfare within the area who need help.
 The education act 2002- This act of United nations convention on rights of the child
(1989) states that all local education authorities, teachers and governing bodies all have a
responsibility to ensure that no unfair practices is conduct in school and provide safety to
children's. This act helps in providing good knowledge and development of child
(Laitinen and Nikupeteri, 2018).
 Children Act 2004- This act provides different legal framework related to children's
matter. It includes various requirement for forming a integrated series which helps in
providing facility to do work more closely. Another one is including all common
assessments related to requirement and needs of children's. Which helps in providing
safety to children's. It includes database based on information related to safety and
welfare of children's. Other than this it support parents past experience and problems
(Parton, 2019).
Policies related to children's safeguarding-
For providing safety to children's its duty of schools to formulate and implement different
policies which ensure security and safety of children's. These polices must includes points related
to protecting children's and what procedure will be follow for reporting. Its responsibility of all
teachers to effectively follow all these polices. Department of education provide various
guidelines to schools on the basis of this schools formulate their polices. In terms of this various
policies are discuss below:
 Working together to safeguarding children- This policy includes guidance related to
safeguarding which set specific duties for all people in organisation. Which provide
guidelines to work together for safeguarding children's and young people against any
abuse.
 Procedure of reporting against abused- It provide various guidelines to those people
who are working for promoting children's welfare and safeguarding. They also search for
actions of adult working with their children's (Przeperski and Taylor, 2020).

1.2 Discuss the roles of various agencies which are included in safeguard of welfare of children's
and young people.
In terms of this all adults have a responsibility to safeguard development and welfare of
children's. Various agencies which are responsible for safeguard the welfare of children's and
young people are discuss below:
 Schools- They have a responsibility to develop awareness in children's and educate them
regarding acceptable and not acceptable behaviours. School management needs to
provide proper training to their staff members related to safeguarding. Most important
role of this agency is to analysed or observed signs of abuse & change in behaviour of
children's and inform it to other agencies.
 Children's social care- It play an essential role in safeguarding development and welfare
of children's and young people. Children's social care are working in partnership with
their partners and other agencies. They have a responsibility to identify abuse against
children's and take required action. These agencies are responsible for conducting regular
meetings with children's and their family members.
TASK 2
2.1 Identify different sign and symptoms of illnesses at the time of childhood
In any school their teachers are responsible for work closely with every children and
notice their behaviour. Their are various sign and symptoms which help teachers to understand
illnesses in children's. Sing of illness includes looks pale, children lost their appetite, quite, looks
flushed, appear more tired, dark ring around eye etc. If teacher see any sing of illness than it's
duty of school to inform their parents. Younger people are able to clearly communicate about
how they feel but in case of children's they are not able to communicate their symptoms. In case
of Tonsillitis it's symptoms are, difficulty swallowing, fever, pain in ear and neck. If all these
symptoms are find than school need to inform child parents. Other than this symptoms like Itchy
rash with blister- like appearance and fever that means the child is suffering from chickenpox
and require rest at their home. Children can return to school after five days of onset all rashes
(Rhind and Blair, 2018).

2.2 Explain those actions when young people and children are injured
It's duty of all schools to maintain a qualified first aider. Schools needs to have a proper
system related to solving problems like urgent medical help. Schools needs to adopt intercom
system which depends on the situation of urgent support need. Like red card is for high
emergency and orange card is for normal support. For dealing with minor injury like suffer
minor cut, bruises etc. school not need to send children at home. These injury are remove by
simply washed with clean water. But if a child feeling ill and had a minor injury then school
needs to inform their parents and carer. Information related to accident and incident must be
recorded by school in their record book. If there is any serious accident is happened with child
than its duty of school to report in health and safety executive (Shaw and Greenhow, 2020).
2.3 Identify different situations when children's and young people are require to provide urgent
medical attention.
There are various situation when children's and young people require urgent medical
attention. It includes various emergency situation such as severe bleeding, choking, breathing
problem, head injuries and so on. Emergency situations are mention below:
 Accidents- In case of a major accident first action of school or first aider is to call on
999. After that reassure the child and try to do not move child unless it is very necessary.
Other than this do not give any kind of drink and food to child and try to keep the child
warm.
 Asthma- This is a most common condition that every school face. Now a days most of
children's are suffering prom this problem. Asthma symptoms are wheezing and
coughing. Most of children's are manage their asthma problem by their own and carry
inhaler. If a children have an asthma attack than first action is to find his inhaler and
support child in using it. If inhaler is not helping in asthma attack. Then next action is to
call for medical help (Sims-Schouten, 2020).
2.4 What actions are take into consideration for emergency
All staff members working in a school are more aware about polices related to emergency
situation. In case of fire that building needs to be exhausted as soon as possible. Schools need to
prepare a proper plan and procedure related to how raise fire alarm, what to do after hearing fire
alarm, what rout should follow and so on. All members of schools and children's are well

educated regarding this situation. Inform all children's regarding what to do and what not to do in
this situation (West-Oram and et. al. 2020) .
CONCLUSION
From above discussion it can concluded that safeguarding the welfare of children and
young people is very essential for their proper growth and development. Various legislation
related to safeguard protect children's from any unfair activities and from abuse and neglect
situation. This report is help in understanding how to identify sign and symptoms of illness and
take immediate necessary action for protecting children and young people.

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