confidentiality, data protection and the disclosure of information Working together to safeguard children (2006-2010) A Guide to Inter-agency Working to Safeguard and Promote the Welfare of Children. It sets out how organisations, agencies and individuals working with children should work together to safeguard and promote their welfare in accordance with the Children Act 1989 and Children Act 2004. From September 2009 a named member of the Senior Management Team (Head teacher) will…
The CACHE values are important as they represent the professional way of how professionals and practitioner should work with children, young people and their families. A CACHE value that underpins working with children is, ‘Honour the confidentiality of information relating to the child and their family, unless its disclosure is required by law or is in the best interest of the child.’ It is by law that the practitioner and professionals follow and sign the Data Protection Act 1998. This is…
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…
As day turns to night, panic sets in and the children resort to drastic measures to get back inside and Sedaris comes up with a plan. Sedaris and his siblings convince the youngest sister, Tiffany, to lay out in the snow-covered road as a way to get revenge on their mother. Eventually, a passerby notices the young girl laying in the road and speaks with the mother, leading to her run outside to confront the situation. The story ends with the children surrounding the mother tightly as they all…
different assessments used within social work. The importance of effective and comprehensive assessment with children and families has been emphasized since the tragic death of Victoria Climbié on 25 February 2000 (http://news.bbc.co.uk). The government announced the “first "tripartate" inquiry into child abuse, investigating the role of social services, the NHS and the police, under the Children 's Act, NHS Act and Police Act”. (http://www.theguardian.com) Reports into the Climbié case by…
“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.” William Sherman. A Long Way Gone, written by Ishmael Beah, recounts a real life experience of a child soldier in Sierra Leone and like Sherman said he finds war to be hell. The memoir portrays in horrific detail the realities of war and the effects it has on all the people. Ishmael Beah is only twelve when the war arrives on his doorstep in 1993. It tears apart his family and leaves him to wander the…
P1 – Outline why children and young people may need to be looked after away from their families. The term ‘looked after children’ has a legal meaning which is based on the Children Act. The child is looked after by the local authorities if he or she has been provided with accommodation for a time period of more than 24 hours. Most of the children who are looked after by the local authorities are placed with foster carers as they believe it is in the best interest of the child because they are…
Title Throughout the course we have read several books related to war from various authors. These authors wrote their works in a multitude of ways. The time periods at which these authors wrote differed immensely. One author wrote at the time of the civil war, others during the Vietnam War, and another during World War II. The style at which they wrote was anything but similar. The variance of literature was as great as their time difference. Some expressed their writings in a way of short…
• Explaining working together • Good practice 3. Page 4 /Task 3 • Justifying social work intervention in a given situation in relation to the legal framework protecting children 4. Page 5 • Bibliography Task 2 Introduction The Children Act 1989 allows local authorities to intervene in order to safeguard children that are suffering or are likely to suffer from significant harm. Risks that affect a child’s physical or mental health are defined as abuse. Ill treatment is not defined…
Perseverance is an important theme in A Long Walk to Water and is demonstrated by Salva in this story. The first example is Salva, he had to persevere through many things. The first thing he had to persevere through is getting away from the rebel soldiers. Salva had to run away from his home and family in the hope of seeing them again. Salva encountered many occasions where the rebel soldiers killed many people around him and Salva had to keep persevering through these tragedies. In this story…