Laws and Regulations for the Protection of 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
family’s safety and protection are mentioned in the and human rights act 1998. Employees must
1 Dempsey, Paul Stephen. "National laws governing commercial space activities: Legislation,
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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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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,
respectful and polite manner of interaction with children often makes them trust the legal
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.