Safeguarding Children and Young People
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Safeguarding Children and Young People
The Level 2 Certificate in Safeguarding Children and Young People is an ideal programme for those who work with children and young people who require specific training in this area.
A child may be defined as a young person between the stages of infancy and youth. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) defines a child as an individual aged 0 to 18 years old, but within British Criminal law, a child is considered any person up to the age of 14, although they can be convicted of an offence from the age of 10. A young person may be defined as someone in the first or an early stage of life, growth or development or more specifically …
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Safeguarding Children and Young People
The Level 2 Certificate in Safeguarding Children and Young
People is an ideal programme for those who work with
children and young people who require specific training in this
area.
A child may be defined as a young person between the stages of
infancy and youth. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of
the Child (1989) defines a child as an individual aged 0 to 18
years old, but within British Criminal law, a child is considered
any person up to the age of 14, although they can be convicted of
an offence from the age of 10. A young person may be defined as
someone in the first or an early stage of life, growth or
development or more specifically an individual between the ages of
14-19. It is important to note that a person’s development depends
on a number of genetic and environmental factors and where these
are affected in a negative way, so will the young person’s
development.
Although Safeguarding has not been given a specific definition in
law, it may be considered in its simplest form as ‘keeping children
safe from harm, such as illness, abuse or injury.’ Following the
implementation of the Every Child Matters agenda, the term ‘Child
Protection’ has been replaced by ‘Safeguarding’ and is the
responsibility of all professionals who work with children and
young people. All professionals i.e. professional careers,
parenting workers and care assistants, now have a duty of care to
the children and young people they work with and are expected to
protect a child’s emotional, physical and sexual well-being as well
as to ensure the child is not being neglected.
A child or young person may be harmed in many different ways and it
is not always obvious to the outsider as to what is happening in a
young person’s life or if they are safe or being harmed.
Children and young people can be harmed by a number of different
factors:
• People
• Environment
• Health Issues
• Accidents
• Injuries
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