202 Safeguarding the Welfare of Children and Young People Assignment

This assignment delves into the crucial topic of safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. It begins by identifying relevant national legislation, such as the Care Act 2014 and the Children and Social Work Act 2017, along with local policies and procedures. The assignment then explores the roles of various agencies, including the NSPCC and DBS, in safeguarding efforts. It provides detailed tables outlining different types of child abuse (physical, emotional, sexual, neglect, and bullying), their characteristics, and actions to be taken. The document also covers the principles of confidentiality, common childhood illnesses, and emergency procedures, emphasizing the importance of recognizing signs and symptoms and responding appropriately. Finally, it outlines the procedures to follow when concerns arise about child abuse, harm, or bullying, highlighting the comprehensive approach needed to protect children and young people.

Safeguarding the welfare of
children and young people

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK A...........................................................................................................................................3
1: Identify a current national piece of legislation which is relevant to safeguarding children
and young people welfare.......................................................................................................3
2: Identify two current local policies, procedure or guidance in relation to safeguarding the
welfare of children and young people. ..................................................................................4
3: Complete the following table.............................................................................................4
4: complete the following table..............................................................................................5
5: Complete the following table ............................................................................................7
6: The principle and boundaries of confidentiality and when to share information...............7
TASK B ..........................................................................................................................................8
1: Complete the following table ............................................................................................8
2: Five point action plan which is used to follow if a child is suffering from any or all of the
following sign and symptoms such as severe headache, feeling nauseous, raised temperature,
sensitivity to light and raised rash or spots. .........................................................................10
3: complete the following table the action to take in an emergency ...................................10
TASK C ........................................................................................................................................11
1: The procedure to follow if there is evidence or are concern that a child or young person has
been, is being or is at risk of being abused, harm or bullied. ..............................................11
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Safeguarding of the children is defined as set of action which is generally used in order to
promote the welfare of children and protect them from the external harm or internal harm. As per
this, safeguarding means protecting children from the abuse and maltreatment which is going
now a days in extreme level. Also the safeguarding referred as the preventing harm to children
health or their development. This enables the various dimension of growth and development of a
children in various respect and manner. The safeguard is ensure the children grow up with the
provision of safe and efficient manner with effective care which provide them facilities for
growth and also used give higher education. As per creating ethical consideration this also
enables to taking action for all children and young people for their best outcome. In the aspect of
future concerns this is effective to provide the best safety and ensuring among children. In this
report, the discussion is based on various aspect of safeguarding and the effectiveness which is
generally created in order to safety of children and young people (Berrick and et. al., 2017).
MAIN BODY
TASK A
1: Identify a current national piece of legislation which is relevant to safeguarding children and
young people welfare.
The current a national piece of legislation legislation which is irrelevant in order to create
the safeguard for the children and young people welfare. The care act 2014 and the children and
social work act 2017 and safeguarding children act 2018. These all is based on the rules and
regulations that provide the ability for a organization to taking the responsibility for the
integration of care and support between health and local authorities in the country. The National
health services and clinical commissioning groups a working together to form a responsibility to
provide the safeguard to children and quality of care by supporting the local and neighbouring
social care services. The local authorities have responsibilities for safeguarding and when NHS is
working together with providing to health then they have taking the duty to promote well-being
with local communities (Bostock and et. al., 2018). As per this, safeguarding adult means
providing and protecting a person's right to live freely and safely in any country. They have also
rights to free from abuse and neglect and this care act and other act provide them authority to live
their life in own ways.

2: Identify two current local policies, procedure or guidance in relation to safeguarding the
welfare of children and young people.
1: The department of the education help to set the number of law that enable for the young
people and children to provide them proper safeguarding. As per this, there is no single law
which is used to cover the different law which help to together and create the law of
safeguarding. In context with this, the convection on the right of the child 1989. moreover, the
article 27 of the of the UNRC stated that is stated that the right every child to make the standard
of living adequate for the children, physical, mental and social development.
2: The children Act 1989, as per this, it state about the various responsibility that are expected in
order to provide the outline various services which can be offer to protect the welfare of children.
In 1989, this act will be reconstruct in the way of the family works. In this regards, the 2004 the
children act was totally updated. The working of the safeguard children 2010 the children act to
set how the safeguard children and covers the wide range of issue and problem that may working
with children. The risk of the document contain the statutory guidance that based on the training
and development. The second half of the document is covers to apply the principle, criminal
offender, and working with children and safeguarding. As per this, more vulnerable to abuse and
neglect (Crawford and et. al., 2019).
3: Complete the following table
Agency name (involved in safeguarding
children and young people)
Role of the agency (in own work setting)
National society for the prevention of cruelty
to children (NSPCC)
This agency working with the children and
young people which has keep them safe. The
agencies that are provide the legal right to
intervene if the child abuse which is suspected
are social and automated services. There are
various agencies and professional that use to
share the information and work together to
provide the existence use to provide factor
which serve children and their people to reduce

the harm.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) This is an non departmental public body of the
home office of the united kingdom. As per this,
DBS is an organization which is used to public,
private and voluntary section of the sector. This
is used to provide the safer. This is an
independent safeguarding authority called as
ISA. The main objective of this agency is
provide the quality of life to those who are
facing issue of abuse and other which
decreasing the moral of children and young
people.
4: complete the following table
Type of child abuse List three characteristic for each type of child abuse
Physical  Fear of going home: They used to fear when returning back
to home, this is another sign of the physical violence which
hurt the children mentally.
 Avoiding touch: As per this, they must know the various
circumstance and this create the various factor such as this is
also a symptom of physical abuse where children avoiding
the physical touch from number of people and they are
hesitate when someone try to touch roughly or act like a
criminal attitude (Factor and et. al., 2019).
 Unexplained injuries: This is usually and concern when any
children is going through domestic violence or physical
abuse because the injuries and usually located on the ear,
necks, back, chest, thighs. So, these all are symptoms of
physical abuse.

Emotional  In this, the withdrawal from the friends and mutual activities
which is follow standard the society. So, as per this the
children feel isolated from the society and from friends.
 Depression anxiety and unusual fairs and also sometime the
loss of self confidence is observed in the emotional abuse
this all regulated by ashamed or by the confused behaviour
of child.
 Emotional abuse are very dangerous when its persist for the
longer period of time. In this case children are usually do
self harm or try to do suicide in number of cases.
Sexual  The child sexual abuse covers a range of illegal activities
which is based on the sexuality and others. The possessing
image of child sexual abuse.
 Engaging in the any kind of sexual activity in the front of
child which create the aspect of sexual abuse such as
watching pornography in the front of child.
 Inappropriate sexual touching of a child rather cloth or non
clothes this is comes under the phase of sexual abuse.
Neglect  The physical neglect is defined as the failure to provide the
essential food clothing in Shelters and this also create the
lack of supervision (Hodes and et. al., 2017).
 Medical neglect this is also and unconditional failure in
which the necessary medical treatment and mental health
treatment and not provided at a specific time period.
 Educational neglect, in this comes under the failure to
provide the higher education based knowledge and skills to
the child.
Bullying  In this, the mood swings are occur and sometime the fear is
made and the children and their eating pattern and sleep
pattern is totally changed and constantly aggressive and
unreasonable behaviour is caused.

 As per the current advancement there are various dating app
on the social media or in internet as per this, the measure
causes of bullying which is come in the context of
molestation and others.
 Children that are threatened and humiliated and feel
embarrassed in the various conditions. These are generally
called as a Cyber bullying in the digital technologies.
5: Complete the following table
Concern that a colleague is Give description of the action to be taken in
response
Failing to comply with safeguarding process In this regard provide them proper information
about the process of safeguarding. As per this,
they are used to take more and more action
against the safeguarding of children or young
people because this all aspect used to raise the
issue of various factor that implies various
function that is more relevant and picked up.
Harming, abusing or bullying a child or young
person
This is an illegal and unethical action which is
conducted by the colleague in order to provide
the various section of factor and this will raise
number of issue. In regards with this, the
proper action were taken in this case to provide
the proper law and regulation. As per this, the
action should be performed with proper law
which is based on the children act, and
safeguard act.

6: The principle and boundaries of confidentiality and when to share information
There are various confidentiality in the centre of the test between doctor and the patient
and this is essential part of the good care. As per this, confidentiality in the safeguard is very
essential for the children and young people as well as for the adults. This is also used to get the
information which is provided for the proper need and good care. As per this, the principles of
confidentiality have some limits and their boundaries in which the sharing information is taken
but in this some identified of the child or person or their parents want to see the data with proper
authorities (Shorrock and et. al., 2020). Then it should be provided with the responsibility as per
the concern is always maintain because maybe the data is linked to any divisional changes. So,
information about the child or young person health and any relevant information about the parent
or the carriers are hide from unwanted people.
TASK B
1: Complete the following table
Sr no. Common childhood illness Sign and symptoms Action to take
1 Common cold Running nose is
observed and sometiem
facing issue in
breathing. The chest
may be feel congestion
and diffcult to take
respiration for long.
Use minimal hot water to
drink. Avoid cold thing and
take proper care of children
providing them proper
vapour which is in chest for
maintaing the flow air in the
chest.
2 Bronchitis and bronchiolitis In this, the rate of
respiration will be slow.
May be the congestion
in the lungs will be
observed and this may
craete various
complication in this
term.
The proper care of the
children is observed and this
will help by using the proper
medication and appropriate
treatment. As per this. It help
children to make respiration
which is free form
congestion which is attached

in the lungs.
3 Stomach flu The diaorrhea will be
observed and this create
the issue in the stomach
for the longer period of
time (Sikes and et. al.,
2020). The pain and
irritation will be caused
and it persist for the
longer period of time.
Proper care and appropriate
treatment will be observed
and this will help to provide
the proper medication. The
medication is based on the
eradication of issue which is
associated with this. The
medication is may be higher
dose so as per this, for the
children the dose have their
proper limit and this is used
to cause the eradicate the
issue.
4 Hand, foot and mouth
disease
In this hand are not
being used properly for
the child and this is
associated with the other
body organ for the
longer period of time.
As per this, the mouth
disease are usually
caused by the rashes and
salivary problem which
is usually caused in
children when they used
to face number of issue.
In this, medication and
proper care is used. Bath of
the children is stated with the
proper anit viral and
antiseptic in order to reduce
the infection. In context with
this, the appropriate function
of the skin and this is caused.
5 Chickenbox This is usually caused
by the number of virus
and bacteria. As per this,
this disease is caused by
In the care is must take in
order to reduce teh
complication which is
associated with this and

various issue which is
associated. In this, they
are used to caused
rashes and infection the
body and skin get
irriated and this will
cause abnormal
medication is used in
functional manner to
minimise the complication
by using normal dose for the
better therapeutic function.
2: Five point action plan which is used to follow if a child is suffering from any or all of the
following sign and symptoms such as severe headache, feeling nauseous, raised
temperature, sensitivity to light and raised rash or spots.
Sr no. Action to take
1 In this case provide them proper care and appropriate noruishment of the children is
taken in order to reduce the complication which is associated with the haedache. In this,
the children feel excessive pain kind of migrane in this. As per this, they are used faced
various issue that may be minimise by providing quality of care.
2 In this, mediaction should be provided as per proper diagnose. The diagnose is totally
based on various aspect of learning. This all feeling and responsibilty are used to make
a proper consideration. There are number of treatment which is used for this in order ot
reduce the complication.
3 For the raised temperature, the proper medication is used for the eradication of hyper
thermic situation of child. In this the antipyrectic drug are used in low dose to eradicate
the issue and as per this, they used to drive more and more consious for this kind of
disease.
4 There are number of child who is facing issue with high light beam. In order to this, to
eradicate this type of issue the examinatio and diagnose is essential part to use and
overcome this issue. For this, the proper care and quality of health is needed to
provided.
5 The rash and spot which is show the presence in body may cause itching and irritation.
This may cause various issue. In this section, the use of medication and hygiene is
essential to eradicate the abnormal issue that is associated with this (Warrington and et.

al., 2019).
3: complete the following table the action to take in an emergency
Emergency Action to take
Fire In this case, to eradiacte this kind of issue firslty try to takedown the
level of fire and then use water and if the fire is getting more area
and number of damage in this then the fire exitngusiher is taken in
this to control the fire. This may also destroy the life and this will
raise the life threatening issue.
Security incident This incident are less threatening but create number of factor if the
condition is getting more worst then it raise issue and used to create
various threat in the matter of significane.
Missing children or
young people
Report this to the nearby station for the investigation and try to check
the friend and relative house and nearby area where usualy children
try to visit. As per this it help to find them easily.
TASK C
1: The procedure to follow if there is evidence or are concern that a child or young person has
been, is being or is at risk of being abused, harm or bullied.
Action to take if a child or young person is/has
been abused, harmed or bullied
Action to take if a child or young person is at
risk of being abused, harmed of bullied
Children spend almost half of their waking
hours in school. So as per this, they are used to
surprise by particular responsibility. Which
show the sign of abuse.
As per this, report the concern which is about
the possible sign and changes in the context
with the behaviour to the deignated person or
the manager who is taking the responsibility.
An NSPCC study used to provide the particular
report which is used to state that their is six
children which used to experienced with
improper behaviour of maltreatement.
This an approach which is ued in such a way
which help to take the children seriously and
this will make a lot courage to tell and make
the children that used to not making lie about
the abuse.