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Unit 7 Working together to Safeguard Children - Coggle Diagram
Unit 7
Working together to
Safeguard Children
Working Together sets out how organisations and individuals should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people in accordance with the Children Act 2004.
Working Together to Safeguard Children (2006) provides guidance for professionals who are working with children and their families to assists them in their safeguarding practice.
This document places emphasis on the need for
joint working
as this provides a variety of knowledge, theory and skill when working with children and their families.
This guidance applies to all organisations and agencies who have functions relating to children.
Specifically, this guidance applies to all local authorities, clinical commissioning groups, police and all other organisations.
It is the employers role to ensure that their employees are confident and competent in carrying out their responsibilities.
All training in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children should create an ethos that:
Values collaboratively
Respects diversity
Promotes the participation of children and families in the processes
Promotes equality
Is child centred
Training and development for inter-agency work at the appropriate level should be targeted at practitioners in voluntary, statutory and independent agencies who:
Are in regular contact with children and young people;
Work regularly with children and young people, and with adults who are parents or carers, and who may be asked to contribute to assessments of children in need
Have particular responsibility for safeguarding children.
The maltreatment of children – physically, emotionally, sexually or through neglect – can have major long-term effects on all aspects of a child’s health, development and wellbeing.
Professionals must take special care to help safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people who may be living in particularly stressful circumstances. These include families:
living in poverty;
where there is domestic violence;
where a parent has a mental illness;
where a parent is misusing drugs or alcohol;
where a parent has a learning disability;
that face racism and other forms of social isolation;
living in areas with a lot of crime, poor housing and high unemployment.