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Access To Justice
IHL GD WRITE UP
DIWAKAR ADARI
2013003
It is important that we safeguard children and young people for them to be happy
and enjoy life, and if children and young people are enjoying themselves then they
are more likely to reach their full potential later on in life. No child or young person
should have to experience any abuse be it physical, emotional, sexual or neglect. It
is also important that we can recognise the signs and symptoms of physical,
emotional, sexual abuse or neglect and those with disabilities are over three times
more as likely to experience either neglect or abuse according to the National
Working Group on Child Protection and Disability study in 2013.
• Being Healthy
• Stay Safe
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child sets out that all children
and young people should have the opportunity to have their voice heard and that we
should offer them the platform whenever possible.
Partnership working in the context of safeguarding means that for us to promote the
safeguarding and well-being of children, it also depends on effective partnership
working between professionals such as health, education, children's social care
workers, voluntary workers and agencies including justice services. Professionals
and agencies have different roles and expertise and it is important for them and us
to be able to work together, effectively to intervene and help vulnerable children.
For example we have the Common Assessment Framework which when used by a
practitioner I.e. key worker in a nursery setting, aims to identify the needs of a child
who may be behind in certain aspects of development. It has been designed so that
the family, professionals and agencies work together, discuss the needs of the child,
and to reach positive outcomes.
Every Child Matters framework also focuses on partnerships working at all levels
including a duty to work together to promote the well-being of children and young
people, as well as make arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of
children and young people.
ECM also aims to ensures that Local Safeguarding Children Boards, local directors
of children's services to co-ordinate local government services, a children's
commissioner, work reforms, CAF framework for early intervention are all in place
and that we can all communicate and work together to deliver effective partnership
working for children and young people's safeguarding and well-being.
The duties to be performed by the individual bodies for the betterment of the
children.