Abstract
This chapter introduces you to the global and national context of safeguarding and child protection and opportunities to reflect on the knowledge and skills required for Competency Five:
• Know the wider legislative and statutory guidance for safeguarding and child protection.
• Recognise when a child may be in danger or at risk of serious harm and the procedures that must be followed, including when to signpost to other services or designated persons.
• Appreciate the importance of working with others to safeguard and promote the well-being of infants and young children.
• Evidence advanced knowledge about child abuse, the wider theoretical perspectives about the causes of abuse and the potential implications for young children’s outcomes.
• Apply knowledge of adverse childhood experience, including child abuse to individual planning for children.
• Know the wider legislative and statutory guidance for safeguarding and child protection.
• Recognise when a child may be in danger or at risk of serious harm and the procedures that must be followed, including when to signpost to other services or designated persons.
• Appreciate the importance of working with others to safeguard and promote the well-being of infants and young children.
• Evidence advanced knowledge about child abuse, the wider theoretical perspectives about the causes of abuse and the potential implications for young children’s outcomes.
• Apply knowledge of adverse childhood experience, including child abuse to individual planning for children.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Early Childhood Graduate Competencies |
| Publisher | Sage |
| Chapter | 6 |
| Pages | 91-106 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781529760101, 9781529760118 |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Nov 2022 |
Keywords
- safeguarding
- Child abuse
- families
- early childhood