Principles of safe supervision of children in the home based setting and off site

It is important to take into account the health and safe requirements of all pupils before planning or starting any activity, ensuring that the environment is free of hazards and the children can play and learn safely.

The approach I would use to guidance and discipline begins with modeling appropriate behaviors, such as positive and supportive interactions between my coworkers and the children, along with gentle reminders of the behaviors that I would like to see and that are age appropriate. Addressing undesirable behaviors will be done in a predictable, clear, thoughtful and understanding way. The important limitations that are going to be set out will be clear and to the point so that they

It is everybody’s responsibility to safeguard children – This means every single staff member within a setting; irrelevant of what role they may have there. This also includes non-staff members, such as volunteers, student’s third-party companies (visitors, service providers etc). Each setting should therefore adopt their own safeguarding policy, of which has to be kept up to date and followed at all times.

Ensuring children and young people’s safety and welfare in the work setting is an essential part of safeguarding. While children are at school, practitioners act in ‘loco parentis’ while their parents are away. As part of their legal and professional obligations, practitioners hold positions of trust and a duty of care to the children in their school, and therefore should always act in their best interests and ensure their safety – the welfare of the child is paramount (Children Act 1989). The Children Act 2004 came in with the Every Child Matters (ECM) guidelines and greatly impacted the way schools look at the care and welfare of pupils. Children and young people should be helped to learn and thrive and be given the opportunity to

3.2 Explain policies and procedures that are in place to protect children and young people and adults who work with them.

* Take responsibility to ensure the staffs are given appropriate information, instruction, training and supervision in order to comply with Health and Safety rules and procedures.

There are various organisational and legal requirements for supervising children on journeys, visits and activities outside of the school setting. These include policies and procedures which should be carried out by the school including risk assessments of areas that will be visited (New2teaching, 2013).

Consider the responsibilities and limits of learning support staff in ensuring the safety of children and young people in a school, in terms of:

Risk assessments should be carried out regularly to make sure that there are no safe guard threats towards the children in the setting. Childcare settings need risk assessing for example is there entrances and exits to the building that an unauthorised person could use? Could a child leave the setting without anyone noticing? Could a child get seriously hurt due to a broken piece of equipment?

All people working with children are governed by legislation that is in place to protect your children and the child care provider. In this document I have listed four important legislations that are of particular importance to home based child care providers and noted how I aim to incorporate them into my practice. Child care practitioners also have a regulatory body; in England it is Ofsted. This document gives you a brief description of their supervisory role in child care settings. However, the list of legislation is not comprehensive and nor is the short description of Ofsted’s Role, if you would like more information or would like to discuss

It is very important to let children asses’ danger for themselves in a secure environment. It is not good for them to be cooped up and have somebody tell them that one thing is bad and will hurt them and another will keep them safe they need to identify these things for themselves to enable them to live a positive life as an adult and to gain confidence in themselves and their own abilities. At the same time the children need to be given this chance in a safe and secure place whereby I as the carer know they will not come into any danger.

As a childminder I have a duty of care to keep all my minded children safe, healthy and comfortable while making sure their rights are guarded. I have a duty of care to keep children from harm whether physical or psychological. I carry out risk assessments in my home and when out and about to avoid potential hazards to children. Risk assessments are reviewed every year or when accidents/incidents happen and there is a need for review. The house is equipped with safety equipment to minimise risk of injury or harm. Stair gates, plug sockets and cupboard

From my previous experience, I found that supervision can help significantly to improve my professional practice in work with families, especially with complex cases. Therefore I highly value a regular and structured supervision in the workplace in order to be able to reflecting on and learning from the practice.

A formal professional supervision is a written agreement and is used to clarify the roles, responsibilities and goals of supervision. The supervision is a contract between the supervisior and the supervisee, where they will both agree on a time and the location where the supervision will take place. All area's covered in the supervision are strictly confidential, there are times when all mandatory requirements over ride the supervisee confidentiality for example confidentiality will be broken when serious issues need to be reported to government agencies. The boundaries are set out at the start of the supervision where I will explain we both agree to follow all the homes polices and procedures and guidelines of the homes setting. I will remind

Playground Activity (Hide and Seek) - A risk assessment for an outdoor playground activity to be undertaken with a group of children at the age of six, before The practitioner begin the activity they will need to examine the area to ensure that it’s safe to use e.g. wet or removing play objects if possible out of sight. Young children will like this activity because they are interested in hiding and finding. The practitioner will give instructions of health and safety first by means of not running at high speed and no bumping into each other. Secondly the hide