Safeguarding Protection and Welfare of Babies and Young Children in Early Years Settings

Childcare

Section 1- 1.1-1.3
Outline (do not use bullet points) the legal requirements and guidance on safeguarding, security,
confidentiality of information sharing and promoting the welfare of babies and young
children.
Working together to Safeguard Children (2018) – sets out role and responsibilities and best
practices for agencies and organisations that come into contact with children including early
years settings, social service, care providers and police, eg
Protection of Children Act 1999 and Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)- requires a list to
be kept of persons considered unsuitable to work with children. Anyone working with
children should be checked against the list to ensure that they do not pose a risk; this is
called a DBS checked.
Early Years foundation Stage (EYFS, 2021) section 3- Requirement Safeguarding
UNCRC - section 5.
The state must respect the rights and responsibilities of parents to guide their child in
exercising his or her rights and in a way that is consistent with a child’s developing
capacities.
(protection from violence, abuse and negelect) The state must do all it can to protect children
from violence, abuse, neglect, bad treatment or exploitation by their parents or anyone else
who looks after them, article 19.
The Childre Act 1989, 2004 stated it is illegal to hit a child if it leaves a lasting mark on the
skin or causes mental harm.
1.2 Identify policies and procedures relating to safeguarding, child protection and on online
safety.
1.2 Policy: The protection and
safeguarding of a child policy
statement generally makes it clear
Procedure: The protection and safeguarding of a child
are generally the detailed instructions and
guidelines which can effectively support the

that what the workplace or a group
will do to keep the child more safe.
The organization must set out such
as:
◦ the commitments of an
organization to protect
every child.
◦ Having more detailed
procedures as well as
policies that the
organization can put in
place to keep the
children more safer as
well as can effectively
respond towards the
concerns of child
protection.
overarching safeguarding policy statement. The
procedures can efficiently describe the steps that
a workplace can take to keep the children as well
as the young adults safe as well as what to do
when there are the specific concerns about safety
as well as health of a child. In addition to this,
the safeguarding procedures must cover the
problems such as how the volunteers as well as
the staff must react to the concerns about a
children as well as the young adults and how it
can make sure that the organization can enlistee
the straight people to work with both young
adults and children as well (Writing safeguarding
policies and procedures, 2022).
1.3 Explain the roles and responsibilities of the Early Years Practitioner in relation to the
following procedures:
1.3 Policies 1.3 Procedures for each policy
stated
1.3 What is your role and
responsibilities?
Give examples linked to your
own practice
Remember you are to explain...
Reporting/dealing
with disclosure
Reassure and remain composed an
individual that they have done the
correct thing by raising their voice.
The early year practitioner
essential to be wakeful towards
the possible signs and symptoms
of harm or mistreatment.
Child protection and
promoting the
welfare of babies
and young children
The protection of a child is
generally a part of both
safeguarding as well as promoting
the welfare. This particular can
refers to the activity which is
undertaken in order to protect the
children who are generally
suffering from harm or at a
developing risk of a specific injury
or harm.
It is their main responsibility of
early year practitioner to ensure
the child protection concerns are
raised effectively as well as
responded more appropriately.
Safeguarding and
security
Safeguarding is keeping children
and young people safe from
maltreatment, neglect, violence
and sexual exploitation. In the
wider context it involves all
elements of ‘Staying Safe’ (Every
The role of early year
practitioner is to protect the
child from mistreatment, can
forbid the deterioration of health
and physical process of a child.

Child Matters Programme)
Confidentiality You must keep personal
information confidential. If
information circulate too freely,
parents can feel very exposed and
vulnerable. They may stop sharing
information with staff. Never
disclose any information about a
child’s welfare in an inappropriate
way to people outside the setting
or school, for example you would
not tell friends or family about a
child protection conference you
had attended.
Put the child’s interest first -if
sharing information will help
ensure a child’s safety, you must
do this in all cases, you should
start by explaining to all parents
why you wish to share the
information and how this could
help your child. If a parent refuses,
ask for advice and guidance from
the named person for safeguarding
or the manager/head of the setting.
It is the responsibility of a early
year practitioner that they can
respect the confidentiality as
well as can keep all the sensitive
informations of a child or young
adult confidential.
Information sharing The sharing of information can
assure the safe as well as legal
sharing of information in order to
protect the child from abuse or
maltreatment.
The early year practitioner
should ensure that the adequate
information is being common as
well as considered the necessity
with which to share it.
Use of technology The technological safeguard
generally means that the
technology, procedures and
policies for the use of a technology
in order to protect as well as
control the access towards the
personal information.
They must empower the
children as well as young adults
in utilising a range of resources
(ICT) that can involve
photocopiers, cameras, and
many more.
Section 2- 2.1-2.2
2.1 Explain what is meant by the term ‘whistleblowing’.
Whistle blowing is an important aspect of safeguarding with staff, volunteers, and student as they
are encouraged to share genuine concerns about a colleague’s behaviour. A worker can report
incident or things that aren’t right, are illegal or if anyone at work is neglecting their duties