Laws and Regulations for the Protection of Children and Young People

This document discusses the laws and regulations in the United Kingdom that aim to protect children and young people from harm and abuse. It explores the various acts and legislation, such as the Children's Act and the Criminal Justice and Court Service Act, that have been put in place to ensure the safety and well-being of children. The document also highlights the importance of resilience and the role of policies and procedures in safeguarding children and young people.

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1.1
There are no laws in United Kingdom that support the protection of young people and
children, but there is so many legislation that reviewed and updated regularly. It is a crime for an
employee not to finish the CRB process. It is also a crime for the employer to behave extremely
bad with children and young people. This law is modernised in the ‘Protection of Children’s
Act 1999’ and the ‘Criminal Justice and Court Service Act 2000’. The ‘Children’s Act
2004’ was continuously revised every day and improved for the ‘Children’s Act 2006’. This
law explains that everyone follows the act of Early Years Framework Stages (which were
renewed in 2012). The Early Years Framework Stages (EYFS) is focused on meeting the
five aims of ‘every child matters’ and the previous children’s act of 2004.1 The focuses are to
achieve these goals by setting values, promote same opportunities, develop quality and
flexibility, and lay protected foundation in present and future for all learning and development.
By developing the standard of the service and its experiences are improved for all families and
children.
1.2
The children's act in 1989, babies, children schools, young children, families, and
every child matters, National and local guidelines, CAF, health care, policies and
techniques for safeguarding all affect a nursery specialist everyday work. In Education Act
2002, it mentioned that education authorities had protected the children and the young
people from promoting and safe the welfare.2 Child protection rules and techniques follow for
protects it states that all worker, students and volunteers should be correctly supervised by
carrying out a DBS check before they start employment. The fabric has its particular
safeguarding rules which include Swansea Western Bay LSB and the All Wales Child Protection
legislation and procedure. In Fabric all the employees have specific role and responsibilities to
child safety and protection. Staffs are trained and develop their signs and indicators which are
understandable. For the safety of children and young people organization should hire agencies
and professional from the outsides.3
1.3
The data protection act in 1998 places duties on many companies. It ensures companies
working with young people and children, secured the data of others, controlling and sharing
personal information. Individual’s rights and private information on young people and their
1 Dempsey, Paul Stephen. "National laws governing commercial space activities: Legislation,
regulation, & enforcement." Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus. 36 (2016): 1.
2 Carey, Peter. Data protection: a practical guide to UK and EU law. Oxford University Press,
Inc., 2018.
3 Berrick, Jill D., Sue Peckover, Tarja Pösö, and Marit Skivenes. "The formalized framework for decision-
making in child protection care orders: A cross-country analysis." Journal of European Social Policy 25,
no. 4 (2015): 366-378.

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family’s safety and protection are mentioned in the and human rights act 1998. Employees must
concentrate on the children and young people outside of Fabric.4 In the rules, employees must
not be shared any information and documents which is lying around with the children and the
young people. But sharing personal information and documents are the solutions to developing
the outcomes for all children and young people. It is essential to ensure early preventative work
for intervention and safeguarding all the young people and children. All the staffs who services
for the young people and the children should have work dedication to protecting children and
used the proper guideline when sharing personal information and documents.5
2.1
In the realm of legal practice, inquiries form a crucial part in determining whether or not
the judiciary has been successful in defending and maintaining the laws of the country that are
enshrined according to the constitution. Part and parcel of such inquiries are the reviews of
iserious cases, where significant points of law were enunciated, and legal precedents were
established which paves the way for future laws. These two activities are instrumental in
determining if the judiciary can perform its mandated duties and if the legal basis for current or
future legislation is sound or not.6 The findings determined from such inquiries and reviews are
essential as they streamline and update the methods of legal practice. Sharing such results is
imperative in order to ensure that the legal community is kept abreast of all the latest
developments in law and legal theory. So that the authorised practice of judges and lawyers
remains reflective of contemporary socio-economic and political conditions which go on to
influence the way in which law and legal principles are formulated and utilised in the context of
legal practice. 7
2.2
When it comes to laws and regulations regarding the protection and rights of children and
young people, special care has to be taken when formulating policies and procedures whose
objective should be the protection of children and young people from any harm or abuse. In
utilizing the laws aimed towards children, attention has to be paid towards interaction as a gentle,
4 Shu, Ignatius Ndumbe, and Hamid Jahankhani. "The Impact of the new European General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the Information Governance Toolkit in Health and Social care
with special reference to Primary care in England." In 2017 Cybersecurity and Cyberforensics
Conference (CCC), pp. 31-37. IEEE, 2017.
5 Greenleaf, Graham. "10. Data protection in a globalised network." Research handbook on
governance of the internet(2013): 221-260.
6 Platt, Dendy, and Danielle Turney. "Making threshold decisions in child protection: A
conceptual analysis." British Journal of Social Work 44, no. 6 (2013): 1472-1490.
7 World Health Organization. Guidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the
management of tuberculosis in children. No. WHO/HTM/TB/2014.03. World Health
Organization, 2014.

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respectful and polite manner of interaction with children often makes them trust the legal
professional. The child should be allowed to develop a level of comfort and trust on their own
volition so that they get the opportunity and the feeling of safety in opening up and talking about
the trauma and abuse they might have faced while crimes were committed against them. The
testimony of the child and young person must be given due weight, which has to be backed up by
concrete evidence to charge the accused as guilty of the alleged offences they have committed
against a child or a youth. Most importantly, children and young people should not be
pressurised or stressed or led on to confess or to testify. 8
2.3
Policies and process about the actual execution and implementation of laws and
regulations have to be subjected through constant review as the notion of what is legal and what
is not is dynamic in nature and is therefore also subject to change. Thus, the aim of reviewing
policies and procedures is to make sure that they are relevant and continue to reflect the material
conditions of contemporary society.9 Through such acts of reviewing, outdated or irrelevant
methods can be discarded while newer procedures that are helpful in the implementation of laws
are to be adopted on a periodic basis.10 The constant process of review is useful to ascertain that
justice is able to prevail regardless of any change in other factors that have an influence on legal
outcomes. The reviews also maintain the impartiality and neutrality of the judiciary as they are
able to look at the way in which laws are executed from a clear, legal lens so that any
discrepancy is resolved through the established norms and rules of legality prevailing in a
particular country. Therefore, the significance of reviewing cannot be ignored in any possible
way or form. 11
2.4
In laws related to the protection and rights of children and young policy, the focus should
be placed upon a child or young person-centred approach, which makes the categories of people
under the purview of the law to take centre stage and let their own experiences of harm or trauma
be reflected in the ways in which such laws are implemented, so that another crime against a
child is either nipped at the bud or it is solved as soon as possible, dispensing justice to the child
8 Lonne, Bob, and Nigel Parton. "Portrayals of child abuse scandals in the media in Australia and
England: Impacts on practice, policy, and systems." Child abuse & neglect 38, no. 5 (2014): 822-
836.
9 Koops, Bert-Jaap, and Ronald Leenes. "Privacy regulation cannot be hardcoded. A critical
comment on the ‘privacy by design’provision in data-protection law." International Review of
Law, Computers & Technology 28, no. 2 (2014): 159-171.
10 comment No, General. "Convention on the Rights of the Child." (2013).
11 Reeves, Scott, Laure Perrier, Joanne Goldman, Della Freeth, and Merrick Zwarenstein.
"Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and healthcare
outcomes." Cochrane Database of systematic reviews 3 (2013).

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or to their families or caregivers in a speedy and expedient manner. Such an approach would also
end up strengthening the laws that protect children and young people, as people who might
consider to harm a child or youth would be deterred if the way with which the investigative
procedure would be able to track the offender down and arrest them and successfully prosecute
them. Thus, putting those deemed to be protected by an act of legislation makes it possible that
the incidences of such crimes decrease as anyone willing to commit a crime would be forced to
think twice. 12
4.2
Resilience showing the stand on your own two feet that means independent. Developing
and supporting resilience is significant because it can provide reverse for some of the things that
can help young people and children.13 Developing resilience is useful in all aspects of young
people and children’s life. Being resilient can prevent young people and children taking a risk
like suicide and self-harming. To become resilient, fabric work with young people and children
are able to handle better with the difficulties they face like anxiety and depression.14
It concluded that developing children and young people not every easy. There are some
rules and regulations that staffs have to maintain properly. Risk assessment is the primary factor
in protecting children and young people in everyday life. The government improved their
country’s standards for advocacy practices to confirm that children and young people are able to
speak without fear and have their opinions heard.
12 Chanchitpricha, Chaunjit, and Alan Bond. "Conceptualising the effectiveness of impact
assessment processes." Environmental Impact Assessment Review 43 (2013): 65-72.
13 Thoburn, June, Neil Cooper, Marian Brandon, and Sara Connolly. "The place of “think
family” approaches in child and family social work: Messages from a process evaluation of an
English pathfinder service." Children and Youth Services Review 35, no. 2 (2013): 228-236.
14 Rogowski, Steve. "From child welfare to child protection/safeguarding: A critical
practitioner’s view of changing conceptions, policies and practice." Practice 27, no. 2 (2015):
97-112.

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References:
Berrick, Jill D., Sue Peckover, Tarja Pösö, and Marit Skivenes. "The formalized framework for decision-
making in child protection care orders: A cross-country analysis." Journal of European Social Policy 25,
no. 4 (2015): 366-378.
Carey, Peter. Data protection: a practical guide to UK and EU law. Oxford University Press,
Inc., 2018.
Chanchitpricha, Chaunjit, and Alan Bond. "Conceptualising the effectiveness of impact
assessment processes." Environmental Impact Assessment Review 43 (2013): 65-72.
comment No, General. "Convention on the Rights of the Child." (2013).
Dempsey, Paul Stephen. "National laws governing commercial space activities: Legislation,
regulation, & enforcement." Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus. 36 (2016): 1.
Greenleaf, Graham. "10. Data protection in a globalised network." Research handbook on
governance of the internet(2013): 221-260.
Koops, Bert-Jaap, and Ronald Leenes. "Privacy regulation cannot be hardcoded. A critical
comment on the ‘privacy by design’provision in data-protection law." International Review of
Law, Computers & Technology 28, no. 2 (2014): 159-171.
Lonne, Bob, and Nigel Parton. "Portrayals of child abuse scandals in the media in Australia and
England: Impacts on practice, policy, and systems." Child abuse & neglect 38, no. 5 (2014): 822-
836.
Platt, Dendy, and Danielle Turney. "Making threshold decisions in child protection: A
conceptual analysis." British Journal of Social Work 44, no. 6 (2013): 1472-1490.
Reeves, Scott, Laure Perrier, Joanne Goldman, Della Freeth, and Merrick Zwarenstein.
"Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and healthcare
outcomes." Cochrane Database of systematic reviews 3 (2013).
Rogowski, Steve. "From child welfare to child protection/safeguarding: A critical practitioner’s
view of changing conceptions, policies and practice." Practice 27, no. 2 (2015): 97-112.
Shu, Ignatius Ndumbe, and Hamid Jahankhani. "The Impact of the new European General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the Information Governance Toolkit in Health and Social care
with special reference to Primary care in England." In 2017 Cybersecurity and Cyberforensics
Conference (CCC), pp. 31-37. IEEE, 2017.
Thoburn, June, Neil Cooper, Marian Brandon, and Sara Connolly. "The place of “think family”
approaches in child and family social work: Messages from a process evaluation of an English
pathfinder service." Children and Youth Services Review 35, no. 2 (2013): 228-236.
World Health Organization. Guidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the management
of tuberculosis in children. No. WHO/HTM/TB/2014.03. World Health Organization, 2014.

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