Level 3 Diploma for Children’s Workforce RQF Unit 3: Safeguarding

This report provides a detailed overview of safeguarding and child protection within early years settings, focusing on the requirements for the Level 3 Diploma for the Children’s Workforce (Early Years Educator) RQF Unit 3. It outlines current legislation and guidelines, including The Children Act 1989 and 2004, The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018, and the General Data Protection Regulations 2018. The report analyzes the impact of these regulations on daily practices, emphasizing the importance of a child-centered approach, coordinated efforts, and early help assessments. It also covers the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework 2017, highlighting key aspects such as suitable people, key person roles, staff-child ratios, Prevent Duty, fundamental British values, and data protection. The document stresses the necessity for practitioners to be aware of their responsibilities in protecting children and maintaining a safe environment.

Level 3 Diploma for the
Children’s Workforce (Early
Years Educator) (RQF)

Unit 3 - Assessment Plan
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The following planned activities need to be completed to ensure that all the Assessment
Criteria is met to achieve competency of unit 3
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The learner must complete -
Unit assessment Criteria Assessment Method
Written Assessment tasks 1.1; 1.2; 1.3
2.1; 2.2; 2.3; 2.4; 2.5
3.1; 3.2; 3.3; 3.4;
4.1; 4.2; 4.3
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Level 3 Diploma for the Children’s Workforce (Early Years Educator) (RQF)
Unit 3
Unit 3 – Safeguarding and child protection in early years
Outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 – By the end of these outcomes you will understand
legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding within the early
years setting
1.1/1.
3
Outline current legislation and guidelines which impact on safeguarding
Analyse how national and local guidelines impact on the ‘day-to-day’ working of

the early years setting
The Children Act
1989
Effect of The
Children Act 1989
on daily working
with children
The Children Act provides right of protection to child from getting
exploited and abused as well as right of inquiries to protect
themselves and handling the actions of parents, society, etc. for the
protection of child.
The Children Act 1989 is in conflict with an idea that children are
safe among his family and their effort are done to help them, also in
contradiction they are worried that the child is affected by the
decision-making of their upbringing and how they feel and also
wishes are considered or not. If we delay in making decisions than it
will have a negative effect on the child.
Section 47 says that Legislative Body has responsibility for looking
into when they doubt the security of a child, such as action likely to
harm a child's development or health, or physical and sexual abuse.
Section 17 demand commissions with responsibility for catering
assistance towards "children in need" and family of children.
Practitioners must be aware of the child protection procedures at all
times, like how to spot the signs of abuse, who to report their
concerns, how to maintain a safe environment. They have to be
aware of the health and safety of children, and they have to be able to
undertake any training required.
There are five principles which are being addressed and are
considered as important in the Children Act 2004 which are
mentioned as -
 Allowing children to be healthy.
 Helping the children to succeed.
 Ensuring a positive contribution to children's lives.
 Allowing the children to remain safe within the environment.
 To achieve the economic stability.
Children Act 2004
(ECM updated to
Helping Children
Achieve)
Effect of the Act
towards daily
working with
children's
The ECM updated Act is a development from the Act and aims to
improve and integrate Child services, and assemble people from
various professions in teams of multi-disciplinary, give powerful
authority and promote early intervention in order to achieve positive
outcomes for child and child's family.
It is a responsibility of Nursery management to ensure that the
appointed practitioners are competent for carrying out the
responsibility of protecting & encouraging betterment of children and
to create an environment which makes the practitioners feel that they
can communicate the problems, and they are supported towards their
responsibilities of protecting children's.
Practitioners are given appropriate support and supervision, including
safeguarding training.
These practitioners are provided with an induction which makes them
aware of their responsibilities towards protecting child and the
process which has to be followed when they face issues regarding
safety of a child or his welfare.
The Safeguarding
Vulnerable Groups
2006 (Protection of
The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 provides a structure for
nurseries and schools to analyse the worthiness of practitioners,
teachers, etc. towards working with children's or vulnerable adults.

Freedoms Act
2012)
Effect of this Act
on working with
these children on
daily basis
And prevent those who are considered not worthy of working with
children's & vulnerable adults, to gain access to their work. The
current Act was formed to try & eliminate the failures which were
identified by the Bichard enquiry.
The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) was created in 2012 and
replaces the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and The Independent
Safeguarding Authority (ISA), and it guides the employers while
making decision regarding recruitment and stop unworthy people to
work with children's and vulnerable adults. It is performs as a centre
access point for analysing those who are applying for working with
children's & vulnerable adults.
Working Together
to Safeguard
Children 2018
Effect of the Act
on daily working
with children
This document is applicable towards those people who are working
in services which are related to children's such as educating them,
probation services, police for security, etc. This is relevant for those
who are working for children's and their families under certain Act,
discretionary & sectors who are independent.
This direction put significance on legal requirements and clear
procedures of responsibilities of organization, individuals, &
agencies for welfare of children. Also, it looks for highlighting the
effective protection which is achieved by allotting children in the
system and the agency and individual have to fulfil their whole part.
Child centred approach towards safekeeping
It is a basic approach which safeguard & promote the protection of
child. It keeps the child in recognition during the process of decision-
making regarding their lives and the committee combines with their
families during the process. Practitioners have to consider the views
of children after visiting & speaking to them. They should listen to
what children say, and practitioner have to work with children and
their families in partnership when they are supposed to decide the
method which cater to the children's needs.
A child may be vulnerable to abuse and neglect or exploitation, these
treats could be physical, sexual; emotional abuse; domestic abuse.
While deciding the necessary actions the practitioners should first
consider needs of children, whatever the form of abuse or neglect.
A co-ordinated approach
The responsibilities for safekeeping of children have to be distributed
which will ensure that no one has full information regarding the
needs & circumstances of child. Those staff person who are in
regular contact with children should have a new role in analysing the
concerns, information to be shared & taking spot actions which will
ensure that the families and children receive fair help at appropriate
time.
Early Help Assessment The
assessment to be effective should consider child and their family.
Also, the staff that are working along with child and have to
undertake the agreement about child and their family careers. The
assessment should take account of the child’s feelings and wishes,
family circumstances, their age. If the practitioners have concerns

about a child and family, they should be able to discuss the concerns
with the social worker who are in the government officials & they
must set the procedures for the method of the help.
United Nations
Convention of the
rights of the Child
Effect of the
convention on
daily working with
the children
This convention is an agreement which is international, it safeguards
rights of the children & give a framework of developing the services
for children which is based on child solely.
Government have to ensure the children are properly cared and
protected from abuse, violence which is done by their parents or any
person who are supposed to care for those children.
The government should respect the rights as well as responsibilities
of their families while they guide the children. This will help the
children to learn the method of using the rights in appropriate way.
The government has to help parents and carriers by providing
services to support them, particularly if both parents work. Both
parents should always consider what is best for the child and share
responsibility for bringing up their child.
The Early Years
Foundation Stage
Framework 2017
(section 3)
Effect of the
framework on daily
working with
children.
The framework fix various standards regarding learning, development &
care for the children who are of age till 5 years. Those providers & school
for early years must follow this framework including preschools,
childminders, school reception classes and nurseries.
Suitable people
The nurseries have to make sure that those staff who take care of the
children are appropriate regarding their roles, & they must have
systems which will ensure that practitioners and other who are
frequently in touch with children are appropriate. Nurseries must
obtain an enhanced criminal records checks for all staff aged 16 and
over who provides care, additional checks should be maid for people
who worked or lived abroad. Unchecked staff should not be allowed
to contact with children without supervision.
Key person
Every child should have a key person whose role is to check that the
personal need of children are met. This will assist children to settle in
the setting, offered with settled relationship with child and their
parents.
Staff: child ratios
Nurseries should ensure that children are sufficiently supervised and
decide the method to station staff who will make sure the needs are
met or not. The same should be informed to the parents or carers & if
important they should ask parents viewpoint of the decision.
Only staff above 17 age should be involved in ratios and staff under
17 must be supervised at all times. Long term placements or students
and persons working as apprentices can be included in the ratios if
the nursery is satisfied that they are responsible and competent.
-For children under 2 years : 1 staff for every 3 children -
For 2 years old: 1 staff for every 4 children -
For age 3 and over: 1 staff for 8 children

Prevent Duty and
Fundamental
British Values
How does this
affect the day to
day working with
children
The Prevent Duty is a responsibility placed on educational
organizations, including settings for initial years, to help stop people
being attracted to terrorism.
The fundamental British values are described as:
-Democracy
- Rule of law -
Mutual tolerance
-Individual liberty.
These standards are also social standards which are necessary to
understand and value throughout the world. Educational
establishments need to teach children to be respectful and kind, while
also respecting themselves and unique features. Children should
understand that everybody is individual and comprehend that the
difference are acceptable.
Every staff have to be aware about evident of extremism, for
example these may monitor the obvious signs among children,
parents, or staff. It is about indorsing positive behaviour, and we
need to make children to feel confident they will be listened to if they
have any worries, and they are valued. They should be aware of their
rights from young age. This help to express any behaviours which is
uncomfortable to their parents. Practitioners and children must
understand that social values or British values are woven into the
setting’s promotion of personal, emotional, and social development.
British value is about knowing diversity, visiting various occasions
in cultures and nations. We should talk about preferences of children
need to understand everyone has different preferences. We should
emphasise the importance of understanding similarities and
differences.
General Data
Protection
Regulations 2018
How does this
affect the day to
day working with
children
The General Data Protection Regulations 2018 has replaced the
previous data protection rules and it is the worlds strongest set of
data protection rules, this new general data protection enhance how
people can access information about them and place limits on what
organisations can do with personal data.
GDPR 2018 – everyone has to follow principles of firm while using
personal data. They should ensure that the data is used for specific
purpose, fair & transparent, & proper. Its use should be applied
adequately and is important. It should make sure that security is
appropriate and kept for adequate timeline.
Differences between GDPR and GDPA:
 consent taken by child for data processing
 it have extended meaning of “identifier” which includes
cookies, IP addresses in the meaning.
 Data subjects contains right to not be subjected to automation

of decision-making (DPA allows automated decision making)
 every data has rights related to processing of the personal
data.
 Provides scope to stable the privacy right with freedom of
expression & information rights.
Ofsted Inspecting
Safeguarding in
Early Years Sept
2019
How does this
affect the day to
day working with
children
This advice sets out the important points that inspectors need to
consider when inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and
skills settings. In the
new frame the judgement areas and grade descriptors have less focus
on data and more focus on the following:
-quality of education -
vocabulary -
physical development -
cultural capital -
leadership and management
Key changes in protection of early years include: -
quality of education is a new judgement area -
Separation of personal development from their attitudes and
behaviour. -
Quality teaching is replaced by quality of education,
- cultural capital is all about providing the best start to the child early
education & is important & is important knowledge which child need
to prepare themselves.
-in this new frame Behaviour and Attitudes will be considered
through the Characteristics of Effective Learning and how staff deal
with and support any incidents of behaviour.
Ofsted inspectors will consider the ways in which a child at nursery
demonstrates his or her behaviour and attitudes through the
Characteristics of Effective Learning:
-active learning -
creating and thinking critically -
playing and exploring
The priorities under Leadership and Management are: -
monitoring the quality of early education curriculum -
clear responsibilities an accountability -
well-being versus workload -
monitor and manage performance of staff -
leaders perform with integrity which safeguard that children's,
specially those who are entitled to early education.
1.2 Explain how current safeguarding legislation and guidelines inform policies and

procedures within the early years setting
All nurseries should have Safeguarding policies and procedures to guarantee that every
child, regardless of their gender, race, age, sex, religion has a right to same protection from
harm. If nurseries set up and follow good safeguarding policies and procedures than all
children will be safe from other children and adults who might pose a risk. By definition
Safeguarding is the steps that they consider to protect children from harm and promote the
welfare of children.
Trough safeguarding, we are preventing children from abuse and maltreatment, we are
avoiding harm to children’s health or development, we make sure children grow up with the
facility of safe and effective care. Child
protection focuses on responding and preventing to exploitation, violence and abuse
against a child including child labour, sexual exploitation, child marriage, trafficking,
genital mutilation. Child
protection is part of safeguarding process and comprises the policies and procedures in
place which explain how to respond to concerns about a child.
Safeguarding at my nursery: -at
my nursery al practitioners are familiar with safeguarding matters and procedures and the
management always inform us about any updates
-safeguarding policy is regularly review and updated -
confidentiality at our nursery is maintained at all time
- every practitioner is aware to the sings, also understand the meaning of safeguarding &
also understand the different ways where children cannot be harmed including various
children.
– children at our nursery never face risk while they are under care of nursery staff
-we have a safe recruitment process in place -all
staff are attending safeguarding trainings periodically
-all staff is working together an sharing concerns -
some staff are selected who consider the safeguarding & child protection
a member of staff is nominated to oversee safeguarding and child protection.
There are aspects which have been denoting the importance of sharing the information
which is related to the child protection in appropriate manner. The quality of information
exchange was very poor which enabled and identified that the sharing of information is an
important perspective to be considered for the child protection and their welfare.
There legal requirements impact on my role in safeguarding are impacting in positive
manner as I am able to analyse my roles and responsibility by following the rules and
regulations.

Outcomes 2.1 - By the end of this outcome you will be able to understand roles and
responsibilities for safeguarding within the early years setting
2.1 Identify different organisations that have key roles and responsibilities in relation to
safeguarding and protection of children
Everyone working with children has the responsibility to keep them safe. For protecting
children's & youngsters from harm and to safeguard their protection professionals with
different agencies have to work together effectively and share information. The following
agencies have the statutory right to interfere if they suspect child is abused:
1.Social services -social worker Social
workers work with families and related people to make sure that they are healthy as well as
safe. Social workers get involve with families in case child abuse, poverty, disabilities,
mental health problems and their job includes keeping the family together if possible.
2. Police – Police work with various agencies so that they can share information, when the
involved adult with child in question has records, those records are checked to
ensure that they were not involved in any unlawful treatments. This unlawful
treatments consider domestic abuse and various treatment which are against the
safety of child will be checked by police.
3. National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) NSPCC is a
voluntary organisation which works with those children who are most vulnerable,
and they have social workers team where they collaborate with various local social
workers. The team go into schools to talk about the importance of expressing
themselves to other in a matter of hurting them & provide information where they
keep children safe from any harm.
4.Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards They
are monitoring the work of other agencies and also making sure that every person works
effectively which help to promote and safeguard the protection of children and their
relatives.
5.Health Visitors They are carrying out numerous functions including advising and
supporting families and carers, for example they can help a mother suffering from
postnatal depression to get the right care and to access services available to support
her. They are in a position to identify if a child is enduring some type of harm and
neglect when they monitor the development as well as growth of those children's.
They make various contacts with various agencies who work for benefits of
children's as they are closely in touch with families.
6.Medical Staff – They gather important medical information and write reports if necessary.
If a child need regularly surgery staff can oversee that the family are under pressure and find

out the vital signs of neglect or abuse. Their responsibility is to pas all the information they
have to social services and they have to take suitable action to safeguard he welfare of the
children.
7.Care and Educational Staff
Practitioners in their initial years and childcare surroundings observe children frequently and
they have a strong knowledge of the phases of development of child and can identify the
signs of neglect or abuse. This staff prepare written reports after they gather and check all
pertinent records including attendance and any matter they feel is significant to record for the
protection and welfare of the child.
8.Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
This organizations job is to protect children from harm online and offline and it is focusing
on child sexual abuse and online protection issues.
The Team Around the Child (TAC) This
method is applied to disabled children, an individualised team is established around the child
and the child’s family. TAC are effective, powerful or innovative than the people who are
involved. The members of Team Around the Child comprise therapist, older child, nurse,
teacher and childminder or grandparent in addition to parent. Person who work with child
keep the work unconnected from the others which leads to the families often experience
chaos and fragmentation so purpose of them is to prevent happening of fragmentation and
chaos.
TAC as a system can see: -all
aspects of child (strengths, weaknesses, personality, preferences) co-operating with others to
help in creating unique system. -every
child’s disabilities and impairments are interconnected to an emergent or multifaceted
condition. - lead the person together so that
it evolve into a new intervention system which is throughout the family and child.
-incorporate, therapies, treatments and educational programmes into a whole approach
Early Help Assessment
It changed the common assessment framework & become a method of collection and sharing
information regarding needs and strengths of child. It is so the child will be supported to react his
full potential. It helps the professional for identifying needs of those children which are at risk of
low outcomes, upgrade involvement among agencies & lower the duplication of assessment.
Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews Is
assumed when a child has been extremely harmed, or a child dies and there is cause for
concern as to the way organizations worked together. And the purpose of this panel is related
to those individuals & agencies who improve the method of working collectively and
individually which also promote and protect the betterment of children. If a government
authority doubt or have information regarding a child being neglected or is abused then it is
their responsibilities to inform the child safeguarding practice review.
There are some shared responsibilities that everyone has relating to safeguarding the children
and these are -

 The parents and carers should take care and protect the children which is their key
responsibility.
Safeguarding the children is everyone's responsibilities which should be considered mainly
the key role of parents and carers at large scale within the child care system.
2.2 Explain your own role and responsibilities in the safeguarding and protection of
children within the early years setting
According to the responsibilities of a practitioner, he should obey the policies of
environment & process which is related to safeguarding, security or protection of children.
Practitioner on daily basis have to keep the children safe, protection from harm, should
report concerns or worry related to a child to a responsible person among the setting. The
staff allotted should be updated about the procedures of settings. They all have a particular
duty to touch the security, safeguarding and protection requirements for the children's. They
should be acquainted with their lines of responsibilities and reporting in the environment.
Every stated lines have nominated people to whom everyone will report for the problems or
concerns, practitioner should be aware whom to go whenever they have queries or concern
for safeguarding of children's.
All practitioners have a duty to act in the way any parent would in looking after children in
your care (Loco-Parentis).
Practitioners need to make sure that they follow their setting’s policy for media and online
safety, to make sure thar they retain themself safely as well as the children. They should not
be allowed to utilize their mobile phones or cameras & setting should give their settings
devices which will be use for their work. Duty of staff to make sure the personal information
related to the children's should be communicated only when it is necessary for the child's
interest. All staff must attend appropriate safeguarding training, and they should have
professional adult behaviour which gives the meaning of integrity, maturity & good
judgement.
2.3 Explain the limitations of your own role and responsibilities in the safeguarding and
protection of children within the early years setting
In my setting my role limits me to: -
recognising what a concern might be -
recording information accurately -
respect children’s and parents right -
maintain confidentiality -
reporting concerns to a designated person. My role
does not allow me to approach parents to discuss my concerns with them directly.
The role of the designated safeguarding lead
 Ensure that every staff have knowledge of symptoms of child abuse and neglect.
 Ensure that every staff have knowledge of raising concerns regarding safeguard.