Economic well-being : Not being prevented by economic disadvantage from achieving their full potential in life.…
Voluntary: A voluntary setting is a service is provided by an organization which relies on donation from the public.…
Ofsted register and inspect those who provide childcare or early education for children aged between birth up to eighteen. They do this to ensure your children are in registered childcare and that they are cared for by people who are suitable.…
Local Authority Children’s Services: Ofsted are responsible for the inspection of local authority arrangements, for the protection of the children within them. These unannounced inspections look at how well the local authority and its partners identifies, helps and protects children in the local authority area, and safeguards the organisations that are responsible for children in vulnerable positions or may need extra looking after, for example children in foster care. The Care quality commission (CQC) deals with the essential standards to make sure quality and safety is taken into account. This includes places that care is provided such as the District general hospital and care homes. The CQC has the authority to take action on behalf of people who use services that may be unsatisfactory. This can only take action if there is reason to think that anyone’s basic rights or safety are not being met. The CQC can make particular actions in reaction to risks seen as serious. For example, the CQC can request that a care home or hospital is closed until the provider reaches the safety requirements, otherwise suspension will go forward. The CQC can take a service off the register without question when necessary.…
Working as a support worker for young adults, among other responsibilities, solely requires maintenance of a safe environment for the young adults to be cared for, while promoting wellbeing. Maintaining a safe environment involves a series of inter-twined activities which include monitoring and reporting the activities of the individuals in care on a day-to-day base. Considering that the activities are carried out by multiple individuals in different placements within the United Kingdom, with different attitudes and operation patterns, the need for regulation to foster uniformity and consistency within all organisations has not been ignored. The National Occupational Standard covers all fields of job roles at diverse levels of responsibility, identifying and expressing the most appropriate and generally acceptable practice in specific fields, bringing…
Regulatory bodies have systems and processes in place to control the registration process and the inspections carried out on registered home-based childcare providers. They also have the power…
This Act aims to protect the child from harm and to work in partnership with parents, ensuring that the welfare of the child is paramount. It forms the legal framework that sets quality standards in most voluntary and private sector children's services, and enables Ofsted to operate a registration and inspection system for the following services:…
Regulation 9 (1) (k) shall provide meals to children in accordance with the requirements of the Canada Food Guide to Healthy Eating;…
7. There are good policy reasons for ensuring childcare is accessible and affordable for working families and children.…
Keeping children healthy and safe is very important. To ensure children’s health, safety and wellbeing every home nations has sets of standards or welfare requirements which settings must meet. The standards vary from country to country, but they all exists in order to protect children. Child care practitioner need to be familiar with minimum Welfare requirements, Safeguarding children, Promoting welfare, Suitable people, Organisation, Premises, Environments, Equipment, Documentation .…
Imagine you are a new manager at a nursery and you have been asked to identify areas in which the nursery could be improved or developed as a service and a business. You are therefore required to carry out a S.T.E.E.R Analysis of your current setting.…
This essay will examine the past and present social policy regarding looked after children in the UK, dating back to the late 1970’s. It will examine how the policy has evolved over the last thirty years, and whether political and economical influences have impacted on its development. This essay will also seek to explore what impact the policies regarding looked after children have on the members of society it is aimed at assisting.…
Ofsted to be responsible for regulation of day care and out-of-school care. Settings required to…
The Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) regulates and inspects to…
A child’s safety is of the up most importance and as a Childminder I will do my best to ensure they do not come to any harm. However accidents and illnesses do happen so this policy will details what is to happen if these do occur.Accidents/ Emergencies:In the event of an accident/ emergency I will be responsible for ensuring that all the children are safe while working with the child on a one to one basis. If my assistant is on the premises I will ask that she keeps the children calm in a separate room so that I can give the individual child my full attention. Below is what will take place at this time;• If your child has an accident I will reassure and offer comfort while accessing them for any harm/ injury.• First aid procedures will be followed as i am a trained pediatric first aid certificate holder.…