Hi, the following is a quote from
page 89 of this EYE handbook:
1.3 analyse how current legislation and guidelines for safeguarding inform policy and procedure
There is one aspect of work with babies, toddlers and young children that must always come first: the requirement to keep them safe, and to protect them from significant harm. All early years settings are bound by laws (described on pages 87 & 88) and by the many laws relating to health and safety.
Schools and early years settings are places where children spend a considerable amount of their lives. Early years practitioners are some of the most important adults that young children will come into contact with. As a staff teasm, they can create an atmosphere and ethos which profoundly affects the child's experience of being cared for, listened to, valued, guided, and stimulated. Early years settings and schools therefore play a considerable part in promoting children's best interests.
An early years setting or school keeps children safe by:- having effective procedures around safe recruitment, management and its general operating policy; for example, if children are encouraged to speak out when they feel unhappy or uncomfortable, they will be much less vulnerable to abuse.
- ensuring that children's intimate care - nappy changing, toileting, dressing and undressing - is coordinated by a key person. This reinforces the child's right to privacy, and the child would not then expect that just anyone could take them aside and undress them.
If you ask your setting for a copy of their safeguarding policy and procedures you'll be able to see how they're designed to meet the different laws.
Hope this helps
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