Unit 3.4 Supporting Children and Young People's Health and Safety

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.

Unit 027, 1.1 - Describe the factors to take into account when planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services.

This means keeping children safe from accidents (i.e. road safety), crime and bullying and actively promoting their well-being in a healthy, safe and supportive environment. It also encompasses issues such as pupil health and safety and bullying, about which there are specific statutory requirements, and a range of other issues, for example, arrangements for meeting the medical needs of children with medical conditions, providing first aid, school security, drugs and substance misuse.

A schools Health and safety policy should conform to the requirements contained in the Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. Specifically the policy should contain :-

There are several key pieces of legislation that impact on how schools manage the health and safety of both their employees, and others who come into contact with the school e.g pupils, support workers and parents. These pieces of legislation are:

Schools are required to have policies and procedures as they safe guard the staff and pupils and

* Ensure that the environment is safe, secure with high quality of hygiene practices for staff, children and their families and any member of the public while using the premises.

They are committed to reducing the number of children and young people killed, disabled or seriously injured in accidents.

Learning Outcomes--- 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 3.2 and 5.2 may be referenced to your policies, procedures and legislation worksheets

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?

1.1 Describe the factors to take into account when planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services

Therefore, measures must be taken to prevent this, such as every member of staff that works in a school having a valid DBS check, in order to ensure that they are suitable to work in a childcare environment. Many accidents could happen within a school environment that could cause harm to pupils. Therefore, teachers must carry out risk assessments before children take part in any activities, in order to make sure that they are not at risk of harm. Finally, it is beneficial to give children the knowledge that they require on how to protect themselves from abuse. For example, teaching children about how to handle situations of bullying will enable them to know who to talk to if this situation ever

The different Agencies involved in safeguarding the welfare of children and young people are -

The principles are a collective amount of information on the acts and legislations of duty of care that have been established over periods of time by the courts. The principles are not only to reinforce but to a large amount that drives most school’s policies and procedures of practice. The definition of duty of care can help those personally to help deliver duty of care towards the students, and in some circumstances, includes non-teaching staff, external providers, and volunteers could be indebted towards the duty of care of the students. The aims and objectives of the act is to make sure that the students and staff are in a safe environment within the educational system. The aims and objectives are the most important legal aspect of the educational environmental system. The importance of this has increased dramatically in the past few years, as the safety risk has risen. The risk of harm towards the staff and students has drastically decreased because of the enforcement of the act of duty of care within an educational

The article stresses that in order to maintain a culture of safety, nurses and caregivers must be encouraged to report medical errors, near misses or adverse events without fear of retaliation.