P2: Outline the arrangements for providing quality care for looked after children and young people
M1: Discuss how policies and procedures help children, young people and their families whilst the child is being looked after …show more content…
Their aim is to keep families together by supplying help and support to stop difficulties getting worse. They also bear in mind the child’s and families’ religious, cultural and social background; hence that they work intimately with children, parents, relatives and carers to supply guidance, advice, back-up or information about other services. Likewise their roles involve: supplying support and assistance to keep families together, operating in children’s homes, administering adoption and foster care processes, supplying support to younger people departing care or who are at risk or in trouble with the law, and aiding children who have difficulties at school or are finding it hard to cope due to an illness in the family. As well as this, the regulation body for social workers was the General Social Care Council (GSCC) which was established in 2001 as a result of the criticisms in the late 1990s of social services in Britain, especially the public case of Victoria Climbie. But on 31st July 2012, it closed and the Health Professions Council took over the regulation of social …show more content…
However there are a number of bad points of Foster Care; hence that one of them is that the children in the family may be envious of a new child entering their family probably because their parents are spending less time with their innate children as their parents need to spend as much time as possible in order to improve the new child’s developmental needs. Another one could be that the new parents may not understand how to care for the child’s needs because it may be the parent’s first time of looking after a child that is not theirs or that they haven’t got the fundamental skills to care for a child, especially when they have to deal with work and other important life issues e.g. work may be stressing the parent/parents and this could cause the parent/parents to display loud and irritable actions to the child which isn’t going to help the child’s needs. An additional one could be that the child has to go back to their real parents but the foster care parents may find it hard for the reason that they have become attached to the
M1: Discuss how policies and procedures help children, young people and their families whilst the child is being looked after …show more content…
Their aim is to keep families together by supplying help and support to stop difficulties getting worse. They also bear in mind the child’s and families’ religious, cultural and social background; hence that they work intimately with children, parents, relatives and carers to supply guidance, advice, back-up or information about other services. Likewise their roles involve: supplying support and assistance to keep families together, operating in children’s homes, administering adoption and foster care processes, supplying support to younger people departing care or who are at risk or in trouble with the law, and aiding children who have difficulties at school or are finding it hard to cope due to an illness in the family. As well as this, the regulation body for social workers was the General Social Care Council (GSCC) which was established in 2001 as a result of the criticisms in the late 1990s of social services in Britain, especially the public case of Victoria Climbie. But on 31st July 2012, it closed and the Health Professions Council took over the regulation of social …show more content…
However there are a number of bad points of Foster Care; hence that one of them is that the children in the family may be envious of a new child entering their family probably because their parents are spending less time with their innate children as their parents need to spend as much time as possible in order to improve the new child’s developmental needs. Another one could be that the new parents may not understand how to care for the child’s needs because it may be the parent’s first time of looking after a child that is not theirs or that they haven’t got the fundamental skills to care for a child, especially when they have to deal with work and other important life issues e.g. work may be stressing the parent/parents and this could cause the parent/parents to display loud and irritable actions to the child which isn’t going to help the child’s needs. An additional one could be that the child has to go back to their real parents but the foster care parents may find it hard for the reason that they have become attached to the