Develop and Implement Policies and Procedures for Safeguarding Children and Young People

UNIT 8 – DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES TO SUPPORT
THE SAFEGUARDING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.
1 – Understand the impact of current legislation that underpins the safeguarding of children
and young people –
The key pieces of current legislation that underpins the safeguarding of children and young
people are the Children’s Act 1989 which set out principles which guide the work of local
authorities and courts and also defined “significant harm” and a child” in need “of
intervention. The children’s act 2004 provides the legal basis for children’s services set out in
every Child Matters change for children document it also features in the united nations
convention on the rights of a child which sets out the right of a child to be free from abuse.
The childcare act 2006 is the first piece of legislation that is primarily concerned with early
years and childcare and introduces the early years foundation stage (EYFS) which supports
settings in delivering high quality integrated early education.
The national and local guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding affect day to day
work with children the Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards (LSCB) on the
brentsafeguardingpartnerships.uk/children website state they are responsible for all
agencies working together with children together they state the points below –
 All staff to be up to date with current legislations.
 All staff are CRB / DBS checked
 ID to be worn at all times.
 Visitors sign in and out policy
 Arrangements to lease with local safeguarding children's board.
 Contact details for parent/carer of all children under the age of 18.
 Anti-bullying strategies in place.
 Every child is entitled to an education.
 School attendance policy.
 Every setting has a nominated child protection office.
 All childcare environments must train all staff to recognize abuse and although being
aware of confidentiality know how to report allegations.
 Effective risk assessments to take place regularly.
To comply with the legislation at Stonelake The Data Protection Act 1998 is one of the
legislations that promotes children’s rights, it gives everyone the right to know what
information is held about them and provides a framework to ensure that personal information
is handled correctly.
Within our workplace we have a data protection policy which includes the data protection
and information sharing and handling as a company we follow statutory obligations with
regard to the Data Protection Act (DPA) 2009 and working together to safeguard children
2010 we notify the information commissioner’s office (ICO) of doing so.
The policy covers records held and processed by the company and is responsible for its own
records under the terms of the DPA.

Our data protection document covers all aspects of information within the organisation,
including but not limited to –
 Funders/staff/client/service user information.
 Personal information.
 Organisational information.
 Structured and unstructured record systems. paper and electronic
 Transmission of information, fax, email, post and telephone
 Information systems managed by or used by the company.
 Provision is made under DPA 1998 for processing sensitive data.
No compliance of the data protection policy within the company will face disciplinary and be
dealt with accordingly.
All staff are aware of the necessity for confidentiality and we follow all policies and
procedures regarding confidentiality. All our client’s personal information is locked away, we
have monthly team meeting which staff, parents and other health professional attend in a
confidential environment ensuring there is no one around who can hear any information
discussed this is in accordance with the government guidance Working Together To
Safeguard Children 2013. Following the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board (LSCB) all
staff when applying for positions within the workplace have a CRB we also have a signing in
and out policy and all staff wear ID badges.
2 – Be able to support the review of policies and procedures for safeguarding children and
young people –
The purpose of serious case reviews and injuries are to establish what lessons can be
learned from the case about the way in which the local professional and organisations work
individually and together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. Once identified
clearly what those lessons are both within and between agencies, how and within what
timescale they will be acted on and what is expected to change as a result. Through this we
can improve inta and inter-working agencies and better safeguard and promote children
wellbeing. Serious case reviews are matters for coroners and criminal courts respectively to
determine.
Sharing the findings of a serious case review are essential for us to learn from in the recent
case of Daniel Pelka the SCR identified that there were three key points where intervention
could have made a difference these where –
 When Daniel had a broken arm in 2011 the medical assessment was inconclusive
but there concerning features to his injury and its presentation. The recommendation
was for a core assessment. This was undertaken but did not focus on the injury and
its background and the long history of domestic violence. The assessment did not
lead to intervention with the family.
 Daniels’s presentation in school of which Daniel started in September 2011 was as
always hungry. Daniel was observed scavenging for food and stealing other children
food. His mother said he had health problems and school sought help from the family
GP and the school nurse referred Daniel to the community paediatrician. In addition,
school staff noticed a number of injuries to Daniel on his head and neck which were
not explained. These were not linked to his eating problem and did not lead to any
onward referral or other intervention.