Policy, Legislation And Initiative: Impact On The Children And Young People’s Workforce

Safeguarding and Risk Management

Describe the existing relationships between your own setting and their partner organisations. Use this to illustrate the opportunities and challenges you face in meeting needs of children and young people (with reference to theory, policy and covering all learning outcomes?

This paper will discuss the effect of policy, legislation and initiative on the basis of workforce landscape which is known for challenging and changing the current work environment. It’s intended to support the knowledge development and understanding the practices of the current work and common culture which delivers towards the integrated work sector. The outcomes which discussed here are the processes of safeguarding, risk management and the transition processes of the services. We will further focus on the policies and laws which are relevant to the children and young people’s workforce and will also discuss about the services and roles which everyone have to perform. The government perspective behind this workforce services, is to help the young children to reach their potential at the fullest, so that they could start representing the challenging aspects.

The young people and children Right to Action has one of the fundamental principle, that is the, people working with young people and children must have appropriate set of skills, services and competences which can be used towards getting conventional right of children’s. This approach is reinforced under the concept of strong partnership in order to get better outcome and it come under the Children Act 2004. Under this Act, statutory framework has been provided to the agencies to take a joint approach to plan services, to make them as effective as possible. Under this law staff training is must and it is also the basic aspects of framework for making effective arrangements in order to safeguard and promote welfare of the children. This can be achieved by gathering the people from special services or from the multi-agency system which are based geographically (David Holman, 2003). In order to develop a strategy that cuts across traditional sectors and department nationally, it is important to examine policy across all departments of Government for any positive or negative impact on the strategy of children and young people workforce.

Under the section 3 of Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 it has been constituted that, the workplace where the young people and children workforce is involved should have to provide intense care towards them. One member should be appointed to ensure that the people working under any organization are getting all safety measures and they should not be expose towards any type of risks. Along with proper quality of training and qualification requirements should be underpinned, suitable candidates should be carefully selected and commitment of people attending it to develop themselves. The work of the potential leaders and managers, which are working with young children and people should be taken into consideration including the volunteers, community and private sector (Tassoni, Beith, Bulman and Griffin, 2010) this will endeavour and encourage them . It is very much important when a child feel unsafe at the workplace, then it is the responsibility of others to understand his problem and further make him feel comfortable, so he feel safety around himself.

Services and Roles in the Workforce

The one aspect which always comes along with young children or toddlers is that it is ponderous to provide them safe environment and protecting them from any significant harm (Lindon, 2008). For supporting inter-agency training, government has commissioned various centers of training. These training centers include safeguarding the children-a shared responsibility and it supports statutory guidance implementation. Out of all their main purpose is to prepare all staff for getting their responsibilities and roles.

The framework, Every Child Matters provide guidance and reminds us that all those people which comes in contact with the children including their families during every day working schedule, also including the practitioner who obviously have specific role towards safeguarding children, also have the duty to promote children welfare (Walker, 2011). Hence the practitioners in early years are the most important adults that young children mostly come into contact with. They play an important role and can provide services in creating atmosphere which affect the children’s experience of being cared, listened and also get valued and guided. The best role played institutes are schools which probably play an important role towards children’s best interest and unfortunately sometimes neglecting their interest.

The purpose behind the services and roles for the children and young people’s workforce is to help out the young people of the country reach their full potential, also make them capable to represent their challenging aspect (Axline, 1971). For finding the proper solutions on it government and mass media are debating and fixed this issue. The program Every Child Matters had been selected for showing effect and real benefits of it for entire community. It is also an important and integrated part of child care and also a protective law. Government and mass media both proposed these issues on grand level. The government’s primary intention is acting towards the interest of children and young people. Hence they focus towards professionalizing the youth workforce.

Everyone who works with children and young people’s workface must have safe hands while working with them and also have to aware about their responsibilities for the sake of safeguarding them and also make them understanding the their risk management and what to do about their concerns if any (Department of Health, 2003). The concerns were highlighted in the government report and the purpose of this guidance report is to make sure that all members of the workforce should know about their responsibilities regarding to child’s welfare concern. It is very much vital that in order to safeguarding child from the situation where they are suspecting at risk of harm, everyone in workforce should understand their responsibilities.

According to the Children Act 2004 of statutory guidance under section 11, it is law that staff training is must and it is also basic aspects of framework for making effective arrangements in order to safeguard and promote welfare of child. Single and multi-agency training is involved in it. It is the statutory responsibility of Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) to ensure that in order to meet staff local needs, single agency and inter-agency training on safeguarding and promoting children welfare is provided. This has been achieved effectively if the board members of LSCBs take training responsibility of the skilled staff group in terms of promoting this development and training work. For supporting inter-agency training government has commissioned various resources of training which include safeguarding the children-a shared responsibility and it supports statutory guidance implementation and its purpose is to prepare all staff for getting their responsibilities and roles.

The work published to increase staff’s understanding about development of children and how to know that the child unable to get their developmental milestone is in the material named as Developing World of Child (2007). This knowledge initiates working with children and their families. If it has been noticed that children are facing significant harm then under section 47 of the Children Act 1989, the Local authority have can take action in order to secure and promote children welfare.

In order to determine people needs, providing early responses, required special skills at appropriate situations, are essential roles played by Universal services (Elliott and Kilpatrick, 2002). The universal service places such as schools, colleges, hospitals and youth clubs, identified members of workforce should be there, intended to perform specific responsibilities. Also to assess specific needs of children and young one’s, the volunteers should have required skills and capacity. This can be achieved by gathering the people from special services or from the multi-agency system which are based geographically. As we take an example, in England, along with all children, the members of the children and young people’s workforce work for overall betterment of them. Many provide universal services such as educational and care support in early age of children, health care in the primary, maternity, accidental and emergency cases (Lindon, 2003).

All people working in children and young people workforce, including the people working in voluntary sector should have to get access towards activities related to training and qualifications.

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