Explain The Importance Of Inclusive Practice Relevant To The Study

It is important that we are aware and think of the principles and values such as the UNCRC when working with children along with The children's act 2004. The UNCRC focuses on the rights of the child and the children's act 2004 gives us clear guidelines of how social workers and other professionals are expected to deal with issues relating to children, practitioners must ensure that they promote equality, diversity and inclusion. Under the UNCRC we must treat all children equally, this does not mean treating all children the same but treat all children fairly as all children are individuals and have different needs and requirements that need to be met. We must also focus on inclusive practice, inclusive practice leads children to feel wanted and included this may help children achieve their full potential as they have more people around …show more content…
The UNCRC has many different articles regarding the rights of the child. Under article 12 we must respect the views of the child, we must also involve the child in the decision making and liaise with the child so they understand what is going on and what is going to happen next. Although children have a lot of rights, parents also still have rights over there child when they are in Local authority care, under The children's Act 1989 it states that parents don’t loose the rights of their child until their adopted. Practitioners must treat parents as partners in order to help the child, parents must be informed of any changes regarding their child and can still have contact with their child if it is safe to do so, although this may be a lot more difficult if English wasn’t the families first language, in this case we may get a translator so we are able to keep in contact with the family through a translator this also promotes inclusive practice as we are not leaving out the