Safeguarding

Question 1

What is safeguarding?

Answer 1

• Protecting children from abuse and maltreatment
• Preventing harm to children’s health or development
• ensuring children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care
• Taking action to enable all children and young people to have the best outcome

Question 2

What is child protection?

Answer 2

• Part of the safeguarding process
• Focuses on protecting individual children identified as suffering or likely to suffer significant harm
• Includes child protection procedures which detail how to respond to concerns about a child

Question 3

Where may children be abused?

Answer 3

In a family
In an institutional or community setting
By those known to the child
By a stranger
By an adult or adult adults
By another child

Question 4

Where may children be abused?

Answer 4

In a family
In an institutional or community setting
By those known to the child
By a stranger
By an adult or adult adults
By another child

Question 5

How can a swimming teacher carry out safeguarding?

Answer 5

Child protection
Staff conduct
Curriculum
Allegations against the staff
Health and safety
Safe recruitment
Whistleblowing
Behaviour management
Bullying prevention

Question 6

What is the definition of a child or young person?

Answer 6

considered in law to be anyone aged 17 years or under

Question 7

What is the definition of a child or young person?

Answer 7

considered in law to be anyone aged 17 years or under

Question 8

What is a vulnerable adult?

Answer 8

A person aged 18 years old over, who is in receipt of, or maybe in need of community care services by reason of mental or other disability, age or illness and who is all may be unable to take care of themselves, or unable to protect themselves against significant harm or exploitation

Question 9

What is legislation?

Answer 9

Created after a government inquiry is undertaken. The law is proposed and then ratified in the House of Lords.

Is law and must be followed, including the statutory guidance issued to support the implantation of the law

Question 10

What is the United Nations convention on the rights of the child?

Answer 10

(UNCRC), is an international agreement and the most ratified international human rights treaty in history (UNICEF 2016)

Question 11

What is the children act of 2004?

Answer 11

Section 11 places statutory duty on key people and bodies to make arrangements to ensure that in discharging their functions they have regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children

Question 12

What is general data protection regulation of 2018?

Answer 12

Controls how personal information is used by organisations, businesses, or the government

Everyone responsible for using data has to follow strict rules called data protection principles

Question 13

What are the data protection principles?

Answer 13

Used fairly and lawfully
Used for limited, specifically stated purpose
Used in a way that it is adequate, relevant, and not excessive
Kept for no longer than necessary
Handled according to people’s data protection rights
Kept safe and secure

Question 14

When can you share information?

Answer 14

When failure to do so would result in a child or vulnerable adult being placed at risk of farm

Question 15

What are child protection laws?

Answer 15

In the serious crime 2015 section 76 of the act make sexual communications from an adult to a child is an offence in England and Wales

Digital economy act 2017 extends protection from online pornography by allowing sites which display pornography to children to be blocked in the UK

Question 16

What are codes of practice?

Answer 16

A set of professional standards or written guidelines agreed on by industry experts or written guidelines issued by an official body of a professional association to its members to help them comply with this ethical standards

These guidelines should be adhered to and if not there must be a risk assessed reason for not compliant