This book provides a comprehensive guide to safeguarding and child protection in the early years. Aimed at students and practitioners it offers insight into contemporary developments in early years and safeguarding practice and sets out the legal and policy foundations for effective practice before exploring areas of contemporary concern. Drawing on the everyday dilemmas and experiences of early years professionals, the book focuses on helping you to seek solutions to both practical and moral issues in a context of legal duties and responsibilities. Covering a broad range of issues, chapters consider: how to identify physical and/or emotional neglect consequential abuse that can occur as a result of parental behaviours safeguarding children’s health & well-being safeguarding against the misuse of technology communication with parents, carers and the ‘team around the child’ alongside examples of real-life issues and consequences that have arisen when communication has broken down safeguarding as a member of a team safeguarding through inter-professional / multidisciplinary work Written by a multi-disciplinary team who have a wealth of experience in safeguarding and child protection, the early years foundation stage, health visiting, social work, the police, and in leading and managing services, this timely new text is essential reading for all those working with young children.
There is some excellent practice in Early Years, yet, despite considerable investment by successive governments in England, the disadvantage gap is not reducing (Ofsted 2016). This reinforces the challenges presented by ...
Based on a tested, practice-based model developed by the author Catherine Rushforth, over her many years spent improving safeguarding practice in early years settings, this title includes recommendations from key governmental reviews from ...
Powell (2001: 19) points out that Lord Scarman in the Gillick case was specifically considering the issues relating to the confidential nature of the relationship between the patient and doctor in regard to the provision of ...
This book helps equip student nurses and midwives with the confidence, knowledge and skills needed for working with families to support and protect children.
Against this tense background, this innovative book argues that child protection policies and practices have become part of the problem, rather than ensuring children’s well-being and safety.
"This is a brilliant book and a godsend for anyone working in child care at any level. This will become the standard for child care -- it is quite simply the best book available anywhere on safeguarding children.
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The book offers: Insights into the current safeguarding climate backed by practical examples An introduction to managing the different safeguarding challenges faced by early years professionals Methods for contextualising these for children ...
The first part, entitled Policies and theories, consists of four chapters, each of which addresses a theoretical approach aligned to contemporary child care policies and which inform the practices of all universal services, ...
Safeguarding Children: Guidance for the Protection of Children in the Early Years