Explain The Policies And Procedures In Safeguarding Children

This essay will consider the policies and procedures used to safeguard children in educational settings and then move on to a discussion of the roles and responsibilities of practitioners.

Safeguarding policies and procedures are sets of rules that enable practitioners to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The rules are a combination of knowledge, experience, skills and values that are required for practitioners to follow in order to have an effective practice that protects children from harm. Different practitioners require different types of competence depending on their role and the level of contact they have with the child. In response to the Lord Laming report (Laming, 2003) there has been a huge recognition of the level