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Unit 10 Health And Social Care Level 3 M1

Decent Essays

M1- Discuss how policies and procedures help children, young people and their families whilst the child is being looked after.
M3- Assess strategies and methods used to minimise the harm to children, young people and their families where abuse is confirmed.
D2- Justify responses where child maltreatment or abuse is suspected or confirmed, referring to current legislation and policies
M1-
The first policy is security of records/confidentiality this helps keep children and young people safe as if a child had been taken out of their home for their safety and moved out of the area to a new foster family or children’s home then this information should be hidden from their family so there is no way that they would be able to snatch the child …show more content…

A good way to try and get a child to tell you a secret they may have is to make a secret for the whole class to write down a secret of their choice and put it in the secret box, no one would be allowed to read this secret apart from the teacher. A positive of this method would be that children will feel more comfortable writing down a problem instead of speaking it, they will also be telling someone without having to go through the embarrassment. The negatives of this may be that there could be a number of issues of abuse at one time and trying to link it to a child may be confusing, and a mix-up could occur.
After a child has been abused they will have a low amount of confidence and self-esteem so a good strategy to build this back up would be to set up a game where the children have a piece of paper which they draw a tree and leaves on, and on each leaf they write something good about themselves on, this will help child to really think about what they really like about themselves and helps them focus on that rather than the bad stuff which has happened to them. The negatives of this game is that some children may feel uncomfortable or embarrassed about writing good points down as a group so it may be best to work alone. This strategy can also be developed for an older age group, if you have an under confident

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