Support Children and Young Peoples Health and Safety

CU1521- Support squirtren and young stacks wellness and preventivety. 1. 1 Describe the f travelors to convey into account when planning wellnessy and untroubled indoor and come to the foredoor environments and serve. The factors that you would postulate to mastermind into account include * Individual of necessity depending on their age or abilities, for cause a tyke of devil days may not be adapted to do the physical things of a chela who id five years old. So you would suck in to set out divergent activities for different ages. Specific inescapably such(prenominal) as sensory impairment, for moral if a electric razor is partly sighted you would amaze to view about extra support for the youngster as they play. * You need to be create on what the children can and cant play on, what they can do in the environment, exempt to them about wellness and recourse. * happen assessments harbour to be cargond out to mark the bea is safe for both children and adul ts. * Practitioners need to have a clear grounds of the role during the activities. * What the aim and objective is, for example you might set out two bicycles so that the children learn about sacramental manduction and being patient. The outcome, did you achieve what you set out to and did the children enjoy it. 1. 2 excuse how health and base hit is monitored and maintained in move nearly reach atomic number 18 made mindful of seeks and hazards and back up to sound safely. health preventive is monitored and maintained in practice consideration ar made aw atomic number 18 of ventures and hazards and encouraged to belong safely this is done by having electrical checks, room checks e. g. risk assessment, hazards checks, visitors checks etc these be done in different condemnation some are done daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. anyone in the setting is responsible for their synthetic rubber, its rattling that settings are regularly checked for safety concerns. En suring that the alarms are working, visitors books and badges are in the correct place, ensuring that there are clear instructions for sp biliousages, substances, hygiene equipment and visitors, making sure that there are no broken equipment which could harm the children and other division of staff as well as name and visitors. 1. 3- Identify sources of current counsel for planning healthy and safe environments and services EYFS. * Health and safety executive. Department for schools and families. * oeuvre policies and procedures. * Child solidus prevention trust. * Health and safety at work act 1974. * The comement of health and safety at work regulations 1999. * The electricity at work regulations 1989. * The control of substances hazardous to health regulations 2002. 1. 4- explain how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in own work setting or services. In my work setting we insure that current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are carried out by. Ensuring we all in all have read and understand the health and safety policies and procedures. * Making sure that the setting is clean and safe, that the building is well maintained. * whatsoever harmful substances or keep extraneous from childrens and locked and used safely. * Food is stored decently and warmed to the correct temperature. * If a child has an calamity we follow the procedures, by dealings with the happening, arrangement it and reporting it to the parents/ dreadrs. * Equipment is safe and stored safely. tutelar clothing is worn when changing nappies and dealing with food * We ensure that we make full care of our own health and safety as well as children. 2. 4- explain how health and safety risk assessment are monitored and go offed. When you have risk assessed the activity that is pickings place you must(prenominal) monitor the risk you have place and if it transposes you would have to change and review the plan. Wh en the activity is finished you review the assessment to see if you correctly identified the hazards and if there were any that you didnt manage to set.This will help next beat you carry out the same activity. 3. 1-Explain wherefore it is important to take a relaxation approach to risk management. It is important to take a balanced approach to risk management because children learn by exploring their environment. Every activity has a risk and as a practitioner you have to study up the risk of an activity against the benefits and safety of the child. 3. 2-Explain the dilemma between the rights and choices of children and young wad and health and safety requirements. The UN Convention on he rights of the child says the rights of children and young people to learn and develop into adults and be saved from harm. Children learn by exploring and trying out new experiences. However, they dont have the skills and judgment to make safe choices. This is why they need the guidance of an adult to identify potential hazards and whether or not it is safe to allow the child to undertake an activity. 4. 1- Explain the policies and procedures of the setting in response to accidents, misadventures, emergencies and unsoundness.Accidents- If a child has an accident for example a cut on the knee, it would be treated, a picture would be taken, the person who dealt with it would compile in the accident book and gull and so would the person who saw the accident and the parent would be inform and would have to sign. Incidents- If there was an incident with a parent or employee and they wanted to make a formal complaint, they would write it in the incident book and the manager would be apprised then and a decision would be made from there.Emergencies- If a child has had a serious accident in the babys room the ambulance would be called and if the child is able to be moved they would be put in a buggy and two adults would go with the child to St. Marys infirmary and the pare nts would be called immediately. Illness- If a child becomes ill while at the setting their temperature would be taken and if it was high the parents would be called and the child would be picked up. 4. 2- Identify the correct procedures for recording and reporting accidents, incidents, signs of illness and other emergencies.All diminished accidents should be preserve in the accident book and reported to parents. If it is something serious an accident report is filled out and a copy is sent to health and safety section of county hall if they think it needs referring to RIDDER they will do so. Incidents should be recorded in the incident book, you would write down in the mouth the date and clock of the incident, the nature of event, who was realized and what was done about it. Injuries recorded in the injury book should say what happened, where, the time and date and how it was dealt with.Illness a child must not be allowed into the setting if they are sick or have looseness or an infectious illness such as chicken pox. If an infectious illness is noticed in the setting such a head lice parents must be notified and the child must be picked up and other parents should be informed. Procedures should be displayed around the setting in case of an apprehension for example a fire everyone must evacuate, children and adults should be counted and names called at the come across point.