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Completed Safeguarding in A YW Setting
Completed Safeguarding in A YW Setting
1.1.
1.2.
Outline safeguarding legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures
relevant to own organisation.
SkyWay safeguarding the welfare of all children and young people by taking all reasonable steps to
protect them from neglect, physical, sexual or emotional harm.
Us as staff respect and understand the rights, safety and welfare of young people we work with. We
are asked to conduct ourselves in a way that reflects the ethos of skyway
We cover the safeguarding legislation by doing the following
SkyWay code of conduct it is the responsibility of everyone involved with SkyWay to adhere to
the safeguarding of children and young people policies and procedures.
1.3.
Outline own organisations child protection policies and procedures
that create a safe, but challenging environment that benefits young
people.
Elevate, the working name of The Pinnacle Charitable Trust, believes that it is
always unacceptable for a child or young person to experience abuse of any kind
and recognises its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of all children and
young people by a commitment to practice which protects them from harm
Learner Name: Esther Babalola
Date:
Safeguarding in a
Youth Work Setting (MU)
Principles recognized in the Children Act 1989 and the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of the Child.
SkyWay recognize
Welfare of the child/young person is key
All children/young people, regardless of age, disability, gender, racial heritage,
religious belief and sexual orientation or identity have the right to protection
from all types of harm and abuse;
SkyWay work in partnership with children, young people, their parents, careers
and other agencies is key in promoting young peoples welfare.
The purpose of this policy and procedures:
1.4.
Describe how own organisations child protection policies and
procedures influence own practice.
Influence own practice by looking out for any signs by making general
conversation with the young people and getting possible answers out of them
lets say for instance to find out whether theyve eaten throughout the whole
day, asking about home life, how things at school, how they are feeling
generally, if there is anything they want to talk about. Also whether there is
anything we could help them with.
Another way we influence these polices is implementing a no swearing rule in
our studio sessions as we are trying to promote positivity and we would like our
young people to do there same in their music as they are a popular group there
music is listened to a lot in the outside world so we urge for them to speak
nothing but positivity this also comes down to safeguarding this group.
Staff ensuring the young people are kept out of harm by having three staff at all
times, making the young people aware of the procedure of child protection and
who they can come to in order to talk. Registers are kept safely away and locked
securely, all confidentially documents are also securely put away,
1.5.
Describe the boundaries of confidentiality when working with young
people and how this could affect own rights.
Learner Name: Esther Babalola
Date:
Safeguarding in a
Youth Work Setting (MU)
2.1Describe a health and safety risk assessment process used in a youth work
setting, including assessing behaviour and needs of an individual young
person or group of young people.
Risk assessment to ensure wheel chair assess, by doing a pre risk assessment to
assess any previous behavioural problems so youre aware when situations may
occur. Venue risk assessments are a must in order to ensure safety of the young
people .needs for a young person we do one to ones where the young person will
be giving a form to follow to state their needs an the process we will take along
which at the end of the process and the needs are met will then update the form.
Date:
Safeguarding in a
Youth Work Setting (MU)
4.1Describe how e-safety policies and practices help keep young people safe.
E safety policy helps protect the young people by being able to use online in a
safe way without harm coming their way. It has been set up in our setting as a
business and educational purpose, web pages are very limited.
4.3Outline how youth workers can reduce the potential harm related to using
contemporary technologies.
Youth workers can reduce the use of technology by running more regular
workshops and give relevant information that way. Booking in group meetings
when needed.
Date:
Safeguarding in a
Youth Work Setting (MU)
5.2Describe how the purposes and principles of youth work align with child
protection and safeguarding policies and procedures.
It aligns as all staff have to ensure these procedures are followed and the key is
to keep the young people out of harm, guiding the young people and supporting
them. Having all guidelines within the working environment and making the
young people aware.
Date:
Safeguarding in a
Youth Work Setting (MU)