A conference aiming to consider what the key priorities should be for children and adults on the autism spectrum from the perspective of the individuals themselves, their parents and carers and those who work with them. Although there was no evidence on this the committee agreed it would be helpful to specify that this should take place within 6weeks of starting work. ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS (RoSPA). These recommendations are important because: managers have a key role in helping staff obtain support and advice, care homes need to have a more honest and open culture when it comes to potential safeguarding issues. The committee used qualitative themes from research evidence on identifying abuse and neglect to make the recommendations. The evidence highlighted the value that care homes place on local authorities as a key source of support and transparent advice. It looks at skin damage caused by the sun, precautions and policy considerations. There must be procedures in place for when children get ill, suitable first-aid facilities, written records, and healthy snacks, meals and drinks.The areas used for food preparation must be adequately equipped and food hygiene training for anyone preparing or handling food is essential. The recommendations may also help to reduce the number of section 42 enquiries involving the care home, local authority and others. The Childcare Company has developed an online training programme linked to an e-portfolio system known as the "Laser" which is written and updated by childcare professionals and teachers. Well summarise some of the most important ones for you here. Courses include: The Trust gives advice on drawing up a co-ordinated and comprehensive burn and scald prevention programme for schools and other child carers, and aims to improve the long-term rehabilitation of child burn victims. Because of this, the committee did not make recommendations about who should have further training or when this should happen. The committee also reviewed existing non-NICE UK health and social care guidance, and legislation and care law about whistleblowing. The committee used qualitative themes from research evidence on responding to and managing safeguarding concerns in care homes, and support and information needs for everyone involved in safeguarding concerns in care homes. endstream endobj startxref Acting early may help to reduce the number of section 42 enquiries involving the care home. Most of the indicators are adapted from the guidance the committee reviewed, and others were added by the committee based on their knowledge and expertise. There are Laws that give the children the right to be safe from any form of harm or abuse. This is in line with standards that already exist, such as Adult Safeguarding: Roles and competencies for Health Care Staff 2018, but there is still inconsistent practice in this area. To reflect this, the indicators are split into 2 categories ('consider' and 'suspect'), with different actions based on the likelihood of abuse or neglect. First-aid - early years: two six-hour days. The committee agreed that this research is important to identify how care homes understand Safeguarding Adults Reviews and what they learn from them. ALCOHOL CONCERNWorking with difficult to engage young people experiencing alcohol-related harm: supporting vulnerable young people at risk of alcohol-related harm.ALLERGY UKProvide factsheets and organise awareness weeks.ANAPHYLAXIS CAMPAIGNAllergyWise for families, carers and individuals: online resource with advice on how to manage a serious allergic reaction, including a step-by-step guide on what to do in an emergency, information on allergen exposure, food labelling and how to reduce the risk of cross-contamination, and long-term management and how to develop individual management plans. The committee made the recommendations based on a limited amount of qualitative evidence on the roles and responsibilities of Safeguarding Adults Boards. Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as protecting children from maltreatment, preventing impairment of children's health or development, ensuring that children grow-up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes. Creating a culture in which everyone can learn from safeguarding concerns should not represent a significant change. The Alliance publishes a helpful guide, Observation, Assessment and Planning which is . The evidence suggested that in some care homes, training only covers a basic understanding of adult protection policies and procedures, which staff may not then know how to apply in their daily work. ABC MEDICAL SERVICESPaediatric First Aid: PFAA Approved, EYFS-compliant 12-hour course which is a requirement of all Childcare Practitioners who require registration by OFSTED. The EYFS also includes the new paediatric first aid (PFA) training requirement that all newly qualified entrants to the early years workforce with a Level 2 or 3 qualification must also have either a full or emergency PFA certificate within 3 months of starting work. 828 0 obj <>stream There was a lack of detail regarding study methodology, making quality assessment difficult. It aims to enhance participants knowledge about Autism and of intervention strategies that are effective in assisting young children to communicate and interact with others. BRITISH RED CROSSFirst-aid for baby and child: UK-wide courses for anyone wishing to learn first aid skills for babies and children.First-aid for child carers: designed to meet the first aid training needs of child minders and child carers. This is because, in their experience, those indicators represented a higher likelihood of abuse and neglect. The committee particularly wanted to emphasise the key role of local authorities in relation to organisational abuse or neglect. Published by MA Education Limited, St Jude's Church, Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, London SE24 0PB, a company registered in England and Wales no. 776 0 obj <> endobj This includes ensuring that agency staff have the necessary training. hild protection: one-day course covering the Children Act 1989. Eight hours of tuition deal with food hygiene, bacteriology, personal hygiene, equipment and pest control, cleaning and disinfecting and legislation. Local authorities also use guidance on section 42 enquiries from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the Local Government Association. Discriminatory abuse is important to highlight because it may be difficult to recognise, and may also involve other types of abuse or neglect. The guidance highlighted the importance of writing down carefully what the person discloses using their own words, but not interviewing them, and encouraging the resident to preserve any physical evidence if a crime may have been committed. The aim of these recommendations is to help people better understand when a safeguarding referral should be made and when a referral should not be made. If they do not, training may be needed. The 'suspect' indicators need to be reported to a safeguarding lead and referred to the local authority. There were some problems with this evidence. There were uncertainties around the methods used to develop much of this guidance. It is based on the principle that parents are the key figures in their care and development. These provisions are indicated by the use of the The committee agreed that this should be encouraged at all levels, to help create a care home culture where safeguarding is central and transparency is established. The guidance highlighted the challenges associated with whistleblowing and the impact whistleblowing can have on care homes, staff and volunteers. This is true for their proactive role (monitoring care standards locally), and in their responsibility for starting and running section 42 enquiries (including large-scale enquiries when needed). Safeguarding children levels 1, 2 and 3: individual courses designed to enhance knowledge, understanding and practice of safeguarding children. Instead, the committee reviewed existing non-NICE UK sector guidance on recognising and reporting abuse and neglect in care homes. The safeguarding and welfare requirements include: ensuring that you have a safe space for children; providing a curriculum which promotes children's health, safety and happiness; training staff about how to keep . Care homes should already have a safeguarding policy and procedure, and the recommendations reflect statutory requirements. Sun safety: two-hour course in safe-sun practice. There may be an impact on staff time and resources. This was mainly due to the relevance of the data, because it was not always clear whether findings related specifically to safeguarding. An economic analysis showed that face-to-face training could be cost-effective relative to e-learning, under certain assumptions. Comments. The committee made a recommendation on ensuring that the safeguarding policy is accessible, easy to find and understand because safeguarding is everyone's responsibility, and people with little experience of safeguarding (such as visitors) may need to read it. Given the limited evidence about the use of Safeguarding Adults Reviews, the committee made a research recommendation to identify how the findings from these reviews affect practice in care homes. Rationale and impact | Safeguarding adults in care homes - NICE The recommendations may also improve the safety and quality of care and support for care home staff, residents and visitors. The recommendations could also lead to greater demand for support (for example, speech and language therapists) from people at risk. Because of the shortage of good-quality evidence, the committee made recommendations partly based on their own expertise and experience. Professional Training Solutions provide a number of workshops relevant to early years practitioners, including: ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND (RNIB). This is because, in their experience, those indicators represented a higher likelihood of organisational abuse and neglect. This creates opportunities for parents and professionals to engage with current thinking on a range of issues. This is because whistleblowers are vulnerable to victimisation. Some of the indicators of neglect may also be indicators of self-neglect. dY 0 MENCAPMencap is the UK's leading disability charity working with children, adults and carers. Organisational abuse and neglect both involve some level of psychological or medical and physical abuse, and may be a sign that other types of abuse and neglect are also happening. Care homes may need to do more to help their staff understand these indicators. The committee discussed whether it is possible to specify how soon new staff should have mandatory safeguarding training. The evidence on training only included short-term measurements of effectiveness. Despite these limitations, the committee agreed on the importance of support for care home staff, and built on the evidence with their own expertise. They provide a specialist service for parents and professionals seeking help in feeding babies with cleft lips and palates.Annual conference: held in September. Courses include: PLAY AND EARLY YEARS TRAINING UNITFood safety awareness: an introduction to food safety, best cooking practice and legal obligations. Medication misuse can be a sign of neglect or physical abuse, so the committee included slightly different indicators in both sections. There were a number of issues that limited how the committee could use the findings. These areas areconnected, with learning in one particular area supporting learning in the others. Funded entitlement offers - what is changing? Subscribing with flick offers access to all flick courses, plus downloadable guides and resources in the flick library. The evidence also indicated that there may sometimes be confusion around: lines of communication about safeguarding and safeguarding concerns, who is responsible for each part of the process. There was some limited economic evidence on training. There was quantitative and qualitative evidence available, but the committee had limited confidence in this. This evidence did not demonstrate any differences in costs or effectiveness between 2 different programmes. They link to details of the evidence and a full description of the committee's discussion. The recommendations are based on existing non-NICE UK guidance, so staff should be familiar with the indicators in this guideline. Although the committee were able to draw on their own knowledge and experience, they felt that the gap in the evidence indicated that a research recommendation was needed about the views of care home residents in relation to their experiences of safeguarding enquiries. Based on their own knowledge, the committee decided to emphasise the legal protections for whistleblowers. 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Care homes may also need to change their recruitment processes, to ensure that applicants are suitable and have been properly vetted. The committee therefore drew on their own experiences when drafting recommendations, with the aim of helping managers to increase staff confidence in identifying and raising safeguarding concerns. This has been a legal requirement for some time so should not represent a change in practice. NATIONAL PORTAGE ASSOCIATIONPortage is a home-visiting service for pre-school children who have special needs. The main issues were the adequacy of the data and the relevance of the evidence, as it was not always clear whether data had been collected in a care home setting. The committee supported this evidence with their own expertise. There was no evidence comparing the effectiveness of different modes of training (for example e-learning programmes compared with group sessions). Staff involved in food preparation must hold the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) Level 2 Award in Food Safety to meet the requirements of the Food Safety Act and the Food Safety Regulations. There was a small amount of qualitative evidence about the impact of safeguarding enquiries on care homes and the support that care homes, managers and staff need. Connecting with Autism is a recognised AQA Unit Award qualification Level 3.BASPCAN'Safeguarding Children in the 21st Century: Where to now?' Organisations may need to do more to involve people at risk and their independent advocates in safeguarding enquiries. Planning Tool Training: one-day training courses from Autumn 2011 designed to enable use of the Planning Tool for Involving Children and Young People in Healthcare. The recommendations do not require specific additional resources, but the chairs of meetings may need to take greater care in their documentation and communication. To plan for successful learning, early years practitioners need to observe children to identify their interests, explore how they learn, and monitor their progress in each area of learning and development. INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. There is wide variation in the way Safeguarding Adults Boards operate and communicate. Good whistleblowing policies are important and help support a culture in which staff feel able to report concerns. Revise Easy - Unit 2.2 safeguaring legislation So, we know that the EYFS requirements are divided into 2 key areas learning and development (which weve covered in a previous blog, and can be found here) and safeguarding and welfare. Inclusion is key to effective practice in the EYFS, which places such emphasis on the individual child. Publications, including The Gluten Free Food and Drink Directory, can be bought direct from Coeliac UK. P~iv|znjrH[X8e1Cf!"jJ-X,;lqE->%@u\%$(6dsd#jtTmc!\El-MW:rhkXDx"dl5kmq@crgqoEbtq8. They agreed that further research is needed to evaluate the most effective modes of training, and to clarify whether e-learning training can meet best practice standards. The requirements explain what early years providers must do to. Organisational abuse is distinct from other types of abuse or neglect because it is generally not directly caused by individual action or inaction. Helping children with dyslexia and dyspraxia: practical guide for recognising early signs of dyslexia and dyspraxia. Abuse and neglect are more likely to happen when staff are poorly trained, poorly supervised, unsupported by management, and when the care home has a culture that does not promote openness and good communication. The course looks at physical, sensory, cognitive and emotional/behavioural difficulties, and specific areas such as dyslexia. They made recommendations on how these systems should be used to record and share information. Tutors offer a range of professional workshops. To address this and ensure that staff have a more thorough understanding of safeguarding, the committee specified the different areas that need to be covered in training programmes for all staff. The main concerns were around bias (as most studies were not randomised) and imprecision in effect estimates. ! `xsQ3u|:_N|8l~m0]biFA? ]c~%;1]LOcbx9? There were concerns around the adequacy of the data, issues with the methods used to analyse the data, and problems with how the study authors addressed potential bias. The quantitative evidence had issues with bias (as most studies were not randomised) and imprecision in effect estimates. The evidence did, however, highlight the uncertainties and misunderstandings surrounding the roles, responsibilities and accountabilities for safeguarding within care homes and care home providers. It also promotes child safety awareness during Child Safety Week. Training in paediatric/childcare first aid is a requirement for all childcare practitioners who require registration by OFSTED. Additional resources should not be needed for care homes to appoint safeguarding champions, because the champions are expected to be existing staff members. Commissioners can help care homes implement lessons from Safeguarding Adults Reviews and ensure that good safeguarding records are maintained. While it is not clear yet what will be included in the welfare section of the reformed EYFS, there are certain courses which must still be booked. It also affects the safety, health and wellbeing of other residents, staff and visitors, and can lead to false allegations of abuse and neglect against staff and care homes. The implications for care home resources should not be significant, and some of the ways of working suggested may already be in place in some or most care homes. Diabetes UK is the largest organisation in the UK working for people with diabetes. There is variation in how much care home managers do to encourage other staff to learn more about safeguarding. The learning and development requirements in sections 1 and 2 of this framework, and the safeguarding and welfare requirements in section 3 of this framework, are indicated by the use of the word "must". Cotham students will be aware of how to seek support if safeguarding issues arise. 796 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<59C8CDCBC2BA834280211891CD3CD596>]/Index[776 53]/Info 775 0 R/Length 104/Prev 614015/Root 777 0 R/Size 829/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream Staff may not benefit from training if managers are unable or unwilling to allow staff to implement what they have learned within the care home and share their experience with other members of staff. For further details, refer Safeguarding the Welfare of the Child Essay - UKEssays.com The Statutory Framework for theEarly Years Foundation Stage(EYFS) sets the standards for promoting the learning, development and safety of children from birth to five years in Ofsted registered settings. Some, such as being denied freedom of movement, are also enshrined in law (for example the Human Rights Act, Article 5: right to liberty and security). First-aid at work: four-day practical course, including an examination. PDF CHILD PROTECTION AND SAFEGUARDING POLICY Rationale It is a guiding Weve listed some of them above, but to ensure a full understanding of all the safeguarding and welfare requirements of the EYFS as well as a broad awareness of the rest of the EYFS statutory guidance you can train your staff in flicks new the EYFS made simple course, and much more; all as part of the flick subscription. This was also reflected in the qualitative evidence, which indicated that practitioners recognised the value of safeguarding training. The committee felt that this was an important area, and built on the evidence using their own expertise. There were also methodological concerns regarding some of the studies, for example in relation to recruitment strategies and data analysis processes. The committee therefore also used the Making Safeguarding Personal framework and the Care Act 2014. Some of the included research was not conducted in care home settings, so there were concerns about how relevant it was. It is important that this is used routinely to help improve safeguarding practices. To help them, there are plenty of CPD courses staged by early years training organisations, specialist groups and charities, on a host of topics from sun safety to anaphylactic shock. Care Quality Commission standards cover basic safeguarding training for all staff (CQC: Regulation 13 - Safeguarding service users from abuse and improper treatment and CQC: Safeguarding Adults - Roles and responsibilities in health and care services) so this is not a new requirement and is unlikely to lead to significant resource implications. 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